SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

mrkobayashi-06496 The entire movie is littered with original and well-delivered sarcasm, perfect for this genre. If anyone gave it less then a 6/10 they didn't get the wit, or only like violence for violence sake. If you want to see everyone die, this was not your movie. But if you appreciate characters upping each other with sarcasm every other scene, then you picked the right movie. And Gleeson is brilliant as usual. Hard to think of any actors who can deliver lines as dryly as him. I would have given it a higher rating, but it did wander plot-wise at different moments throughout. Also i haven't been able to put my finger on it, but something was missing and i think it was character arc. No one really goes through any changes really, except the Oliver Platt character, and he was pretty shallow to start so... Could have used some more depth to their emotional states, but that did not hurt it at all as far as a summer ride type movie...

edwagreen An idiotic film if ever there were. Crocodiles come to a lake in Maine and wreak death upon the citizenry and in many cases, the film becomes a comedy. It's a comedy in the sense that it's so bad that it's almost laughable.The Oliver Platt part as Hector is questionable. He is a college professor? The guy is a real nut in every sense. We know that Betty White is an animal lover in real life, but this is ridiculous. She plays Mrs. Bickerman, the latter could have been a golden girl. She feeds animals including the crocodiles and then admits that her husband was killed by one.A senseless production, inane and beyond the realm of human comprehension.

thesar-2 Stupid. There's a word I rarely use to describe a movie in a review, but I can't help it. This movie is stupid. Bad, boring and weak also describe it best. The best things going for it are the swear words from Rose Nylund, Oliver Platt was sometimes funny and unbelievably, the croc didn't look half-bad. And all those accounted for a half star increase...because everything else was just trash. Not even B-movie fun. Bridget Fonda was annoying as all Hades, Bill Pullman hated to be here and it showed and the "awww fvck it, we ran out of money for a real climax" ending was laughably incoherent and incomplete. I love When Animals Attack films, so skip this and watch or re-watch the top notch B-movie of that genre: PIRANHA 3D. Cheers!

Uriah43 Having just been dumped by her boyfriend (who is also her boss) for another colleague at work, "Kelly Scott" (Bridget Fonda) is then sent from New York City all the way to Maine on the flimsy reasoning that there might be something of interest up there for the museum in which she works. When she gets there she meets a frustrated county sheriff named "Hank Keough" (Brendan Gleeson) and a puzzled ranger from the Department of Fish and Wildlife who goes by the name of "Jack Wells" (Bill Pullman). Not only do they not understand why Kelly has been sent but neither of them thinks she belongs with them on this dangerous mission which has already resulted in the death of at least one person. However, they are in for an even bigger surprise when a rich but extremely eccentric crocodile hunter named "Hector Cyr" (Oliver Platt) shows up unexpectedly. Anyway, rather than reveal any more of the movie and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I will just say that this film turned out to be somewhat entertaining all things considered. I liked the mix of characters and I thought all of the actors did a fine job. I also liked the special effects and I thought the giant crocodile was certainly better than those displayed in some of the other films involving similar creatures. However, the humor wasn't nearly as fine as it could have been and the inter-relationship between Jack and Kelly lacked passion. All in all this wasn't a bad movie and I rate it as about average.