Lake Placid Movie
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You'll never know what bit you.
Part Mystery Part Thriller Parts Missing
Lake Placid - Well it would be, but; "somebody said that name was taken." At least according to the local Sheriff. When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden (Pullman) teams up with a paleontologist (Fonda) from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs" (Platt), and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
| Bill Pullman | Jack Wells |
| Bridget Fonda | Kelly Scott |
| Oliver Platt | Hector Cyr |
| Brendan Gleeson | Sheriff Hank Keough |
| Betty White | Mrs. Delores Bickerman |
| David Lewis | Walt Lawson |
| Tim Dixon | Stephen Daniels |
| Natassia Malthe | Janine |
| Mariska Hargitay | Myra Okubo |
| Meredith Salenger | Deputy Sharon Gare |
| Jed Rees | Deputy Burke |
| Richard Leacock | Deputy Stevens |
| Jake T. Roberts | Officer Coulson |
| Warren Takeuchi | Paramedic |
| Ty Olsson | State Trooper |
| Steve Miner |
5.30 out of 10 (15773 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Neither funny or horrific, but over quickly.
posted on 26 Aug 2009My wife and I saw this movie on an in house TV channel whilst staying at hotel in Australia, and I am very glad we didn't pay to watch it. It is apparently a comedy/thriller but we found it neither.The start is not too bad, but it goes downhill fast from then. Most of the cast appearing to realise what a clunker it is and act as such. The only slightly amusing part is that of the sheriff who gets the only decent lines. Bill Pulman, Oliver Platt and Bridget Fonda appear to be there only to collect the wages, and Betty White has an abysmal role as a foul mouthed old biddy which adds nothing to the film other than increasing the age of the rating.There is little to laugh at, and very little suspense, and just when it seems like it might develop, the film is all over, one of the shortest feature films I have ever seen.
awful just awful
posted on 22 Aug 2009This was one of the most boring, vapid, plotless, and predictable movies I have ever seen. David E. Kelly is far too overextended. Attempting to write movies like this are causing his solid series like Ally McBeal and The Practice to suffer. I will say there was some witty dialogue in Lake Placid, but mostly I was laughing at the ludicrous plot and Bridget Fonda's unprecedentedly terrible performance. The thirty foot crocodile failed to frighten me in the slightest, and this is someone who didn't sleep for a week after seeing Scream, which wasn't very scary either, talking. The plot was just so thin it was laughable. How did the crocodiles get there? How did they survive the winter? Why in God's name did they call a paleontologist to examine a tooth that clearly was not fossilized? How does a mythology professor get rich and as such why focus on crocodiles and not snakes? Why does Bill Pullman play the same guy in every movie? How exactly did they get Oliver Platt and Betty White to do this movie?
Incidently, Mr. Platt and Ms. White are the only reasons to see this film...
unless of course you are a complete masochist. Mariska Hargitay also had an amusing 2 minutes on screen, but in the end her part isn't worth even a rent. I give it a 3, and I'm being extremely generous.
This movie is funny
posted on 18 Aug 2009I read a lot of reviews about this movie, and I agree. This movie is funny. It was more funny than scary. The plot was good.
About a thirty some foot alligator in New England that eats people. But something about it I really don't like. I think it's the fact that not to many people gets eaten. I was hoping it would be one of them films were a lot of people would get eaten. I wish there was more gore in it. Over all it really wasn't a bad movie. It could have been better. I recommend this movie to anyone a comedy and a horror movie mixed, and believe me this movie did.
This movie is a Crock!.......well it is
posted on 15 Aug 2009Here's another waste of film on the ol' poor ol' alligator being the bad guy..er lizard? yep you guessed it, everythings predictable in the movie right down to the alligator snacking on the helicopter.
Oh and snatching the grizzly bear down in one gulp.
In my opinion the first Alligator movie was enuff. A suggestion to director Steve Miner, get real and think of something original next time if you please. I have an idea for a movie..how about "Attack of the Killer Artichokes". I don't think there's a movie like that in
production..is there?
Good Crocodilian film with a good cast!
posted on 10 Aug 2009The film is very good and funny at times.Bill Pullman,Bridget Fonda,Brenden Gleeson,and Oliver Platt are all good.Betty White is excellent and I just couldn't believe all the things she said and I thought it was hilarious!The attacks by the Crocodile is well done.Especially the one with the bear and in fact when the bear got it I just couldn't believe it.Unbelievable scene!This is a very good monster Crocodilian film with a good ending to check out!
CAN I GIVE 10 STARS ?
posted on 07 Aug 2009I Saw This Movie In The Theater, It Was One Of The Best Movies, I`ve Ever Seen In My Entire Life. Very Scary....You Will Jump, The Plot Is Great, And The "old woman" Is Hilarious, I Wouldn`t Even Rent It First, Go Ahead And Buy It, www.amazon.com Rulez. And Don`t Forget To Rent/Buy Deep Blue Sea, In December.....It Was Also An Extremely Good Horror Movie, Nothing Funny About A Shark That Tears Up People Faster Than You Can Blink Your Eyes.
Funny
posted on 30 Jul 2009Not going to win any awards, but a good watch. I loved the fact that it's so funny. If your into bodies everwhere, this is not the movie for you. If you want something that's based on something that could happen, look else where! But if you don't want to think alot, and enjoy a B-move style, you'll love it!
Far from the best, and definitely not the worst film I've seen in the last 6 weeks!
posted on 29 Jul 2009The dialogue was quirky and entertaining; the gore was very gratuitous and special effects obvious (like the flying cow in "Tornado"); and the ending was definitely a let down. Couldn't the creators have found 5 more minutes of dialogue/scenery to have tried to wrap it up? One good thing was that we only invested about 75 min. of our evening. Much less of a waste of time than "Instinct" where it took them over 2 hrs. to tell a very predictable 60 min. story, and squandered the exceptional talents of Anthony Hopkins, and a very capable Cuba Gooding. (On the plus side for Instinct...I was able to work in a little nap time and didn't miss anything of significance!)
So bad it's good
posted on 24 Jul 2009
=>This movie is horrible (0 stars) yet so entertaining (5 stars) at the same time. (I'm not going to bother listing the actors)It follows a NY bitch, hick sheriff, eccentric man, and boring Fish & Game rep as they attempt to capture a gigantic man-eating crocodile. The characters are such morons it's laughable. For example, even though one diver was eaten the idiots go out on a tiny boat and dive and attempt to find out about the crocodile and attract it at the same time. I find Pullman lame (he does a bad job) and the Sheriff hilarious. The character interaction is great. In fact, they're all morons that hate each other, which makes it funnier. The eccentric man tries to swim with the gigantic crocodile because he thinks it's godly. There's a senile old woman the still feeds her "pet" even though it ate her husband. The special effects are mediocre at best. What do you get when you take a few hicks and a few big city yanks together with a man-eating croc? A stupid movie that is highly entertaining (aka laughable).
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By not taking itself too seriously, "Lake Placid" succeeds
posted on 23 Jul 2009When an innocent diver is sliced in half by some razor sharp creature's teeth in a lake in northern Maine, a group of scientists and the typical B-movie bounty hunters set out to find out the origins of the beast and to see whether they can stop its reign of terror. For not only have people been added to the creature's menu (which turns out to be a vicious crocodile that has somehow managed to make its way to the States from the tropics and adapted), innocent farm animals have also been made a meal. Townspeople are afraid. Scientists are baffled. An old woman seems...proud? Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Well, it is. With fun performances from its cast, Lake Placid succeeds in evoking the days of the 1950s B-flick monster movies, while keeping its own style in turn. With such zany characters as a female scientist (Bridget Fonda; where did she go?) out to prove she can succeed in a man's world but too afraid of certain death and sending herself into the role of sweet damsel in distress, and a kooky old woman (Betty White) who challenges more taboos and has more life in her aged frame than all of the younger people in town, the film is a riot. If placed on the same pedestal as Deep Blue Sea (1999), it can safely be said that both films marked a short (but sweet) return to genres so dead from lost projects and blind (seriously blind) ambition that only marred the genre's reputation. While both films are seriously "love them or hate them" types, true fans of this sort of schlock will understand.With a witty and hilariously campy script and hilarious moments through and through (complete with some very creepy moments, especially in the very beginning) Steve Miner (who also brought his touch to the first two sequels in the Friday the 13th [1980] series) shows that he has a talent for the type of film most would avoid for the simple reason of its being too silly.A gem in my humble opinion!
Great Setting - Great Movie
posted on 11 Jul 2009Being from Maine I found this movie to be quite funny and terrifying at times within the context of a lighter and more well rounded Maine depiction. I think the cast handled the humor and the material very well. It's a shame that more people won't give movies like this a chance. The sub stories and all of the characters are very memorable and the movie was shot well and the creature hidden for just the right amount of time.
IS THIS A MOVIE?
posted on 04 Jul 2009After seeing this movie advertised on tv, I thought that I just had to get it on DVD. This would have to be one of the poorest made movies that I have ever seen. Its very predictable, the acting is sub standard,there is very little action, the story line is weak and cheesy, and its a very short movie. It was hard to stay awake while watching this 1 hour long movie.
Great for fans of gallows humor , quirky performances, and slow burns
posted on 21 Jun 2009Let me say up front that this movie's style appealed to me from the very beginning; another person with a more staid sense of humor might not like it at all and might rate it much lower.The special effects are decent, the photography and scenery are gorgeous, and the plot is pleasantly absurd without degenerating into "Scary Movie" material. Most of the characters come across as appealing, decent people caught in a bizarre situation. They react in believable ways to unbelievable events, with two exceptions: 1)Oliver Platt's crocodile groupie. The character is a complete flake, but Platt fleshes him out as a funny and self-aware entity who is a lot of fun to watch and listen to...and the character finally has a flash of common sense an hour into the movie. 2) Similarly, Betty White has a semi-cameo as the most eccentric/lunatic grandma in Maine, but she is only a little bit more oddball than any 'real' senior citizen might be in a similar situation.Pretty much everyone strikes the right tone in this movie and gives a good-to-great performance, but Brendon Gleeson (as the sheriff) makes the movie for me. He gets most of the best lines, and delivers them with the sullen, deadpan, passive-aggressive panache of a born pain-in-the-butt. His character is insulted, pushed around and put-upon something awful in the course of the movie, and he does a wonderful slow burn. IMO, it's the most overlooked comic performance of that movie year.Aside: geez, Gleeson is an ACTOR. You'd never think that the guy who plays this character would also be great in a visceral adventure/horror film like "28 Days Later". He was also one of best things about "Troy" as Helen's cuckolded husband, who duels Paris (Orlando Bloom) and kicks seven varieties of snot out of him in a towering rage. Gleeson comes across as one big, mean, scary butt-kicker, and he makes Paris/Orlando look like a sniveling little girly-man in comparison. Talk about range and versatility...! From now on, I intend to see any movie with Gleeson in a featured role; he's that good. Anyway, the movie is good, mean fun, with a nice sense of proportion. It laughs with the characters, and not at them. There is a winking acknowledgment of the fact that people are stupid and no damned good...but they still try their best, and their humanity is both endearing and infuriating.
O.K Back up here.
posted on 10 Jun 2009Okey Doke. I'd just like to start off saying that I liked pretty much every jaws rip off, but lake placid just doesn't click. last summer, i was pysched about two movies, lake placid and deep blue sea. I saw deep blue sea before lake placid and whammo. how awesome. Then I found that lake placid was pretty lame. The acting was so-so, but the special effects were WAY overdone. What sense is there building a huge croc for only 30 seconds of screen time? I also thought the laughs were cheap and vague. I dunno, it was pretty bad, but you can enjoy it if you don't take it too seriously
Silly mind candy fun!
posted on 31 May 2009Something nasty is lurking in a Maine lake . . . gobbling up unlucky divers, deer and cows. Oh yes, the crispy-crunchy snacks are always the best treats! And this B-movie throwback is a real treat! Bridget Fonda plays a paleantologist - don't most movies have these now, no thanks to Steven Spielberg - who helps local game wardens and small town police, complete with small town mentality, track the monster. Some great lashings of gore, severed limbs and a tongue-in-cheek script make this a must! Hilarious dialogue as well to please comedy buffs and bad-movie freaks - 'stop throwing heads at me!' and 'well, that's the rest of your friend' - when a severed toe is found. The computer animation could have been better but on the whole this is worth seeing for laughs. On a par with DEEP RISING and ALLIGATOR.
I can't see what all the fuss is about!
posted on 23 May 2009Having seen this film before it's release in the UK, I am astonished at the reaction from all the movie buffs over here. Every review, in my opinion, has gone completely over the top. Although mildly entertaining, comments like "hilarious" and "the best horror movie you'll see all year" are way off the mark. The best thing about the movie for me was the fact that it was so short. Without wishing to spoil the movie for anybody else just as you're finally expecting something exciting and scary to happen, the film ends.
Horror-Comedy lacking in horror and comedy.
posted on 22 May 2009An alligator is making lunch meat out of the citizes of a small town and it is up to Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, and Olivier Platt to stop it (?)!Lame ad dull film with the cast giving half-hearted performnces, except Betty White in a great suppporting role.My rating: 3 out of 10.
Thought I was going to get scared & laughed my head off!
posted on 22 May 2009I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! I never thought I would laugh so hard at a movie that's based on the premise of a giant alligator eating people. Typical David E. Kelley tongue-in-cheek humor. The characters were fun and I thought the effects were excellent! The alligator looked real to me.... but Betty White stole the show!
Lake Placid Movie
posted on 27 Aug 2009Kind of a funky movie but as the cover says parts are scary and others are pretty funny. A fun movie to watch every once in a while. Betty White is a riot in this.