Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

retro_james Absolutely smashing movie, don't take it too serious and you'll enjoy it

Python Hyena Lake Placid (1999): Dir: Steve Miner / Cast: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Betty White, Brendan Gleeson: Mindless muck with a gigantic crocodile and moron people who fall victim to its jaws. Bridget Fonda works at a museum where a large tooth is brought to her attention. She can hardly contain herself when witnessing the remains of a human body that was bitten in half. Bill Pullman plays a ranger investigating the incident who won't hit it off with Fonda at first but will eventually win her over. Director Steve Miner is already accomplished in horror films having made the underrated House as well as the first two Friday the 13th sequels. Pullman does what he can with the cardboard role. Oliver Platt plays off humour, which doesn't take away from the fact that his role is equally cardboard. Fonda is weak casting and seems to play off the humour as overacting. Betty White plays a senile elderly woman who feeds the croc that ate her husband. That has got to make this lady the dumbest idiot in the whole film. Watching White attempt to master this creature is a massive suspension of disbelief in itself. Brendan Gleeson plays a Sheriff who likely wishes the wildlife programs were filming this so that he can link tourists. Dreary and pointless monster flick with a convincing croc that is the film's one selling point. Otherwise this film should be fed to crocodiles. Score: 2 / 10

trashgang Took me 15 years to finally watch Lake Placid and the reason is very simple, I never heard a positive note about it even as it has rather famous thespians in it. But seen a few crock flicks they never could really get my attention, maybe Alligator (1980) did. But somehow I ran across Lake Placid via trailers so I tried it.People who are defending Lake Placid do say it's a comedy. Well, I agree, it's a big farce. Face it, I never had any scary moments and even as the crock looks great in all ways it never got my attention because there's a lot of talking going on and seen it full uncut it also didn't had gory moments a thing you expect from a crock bite, isn't it?What did you say, there are nasty bites, i agree again, but it's not gory at all. It's not because somebody is holding one's arm been bitten off that it is gore. I guess you get my point, a lot is done off-camera.And can the defenders tell me where the jokes are? Maybe I'm stupid or didn't get the point but no smile on my face.A bit predictable in places and the end is so,well, I just shut my mouth. As expected, not really my thing.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

witster18 I probably teetered on whether to rent this or not when it came out, but something made me think better of it.Last night I caught this on cable - pulled in by the comedy/horror label, and what looked like a promising cast.The problem with horror/comedy sometimes, is that some films use that label to hide the fact that they're just crappy horror films. This falls in that category. I love good horror comedies like Army of Darkness, Night of the Creeps, Hatchet 3, Shaun of the Dead, and many, many others. And I can like camp horror too... films like Tremors and Slither are quite entertaining to me, so horror flicks don't have to be straight horror, high-production value, or comedy for me, because I like them all, but "Lake Placid" here fails miserably in the humor department, and not for a lack of trying either.I didn't laugh once. This was like Jaws 2 met the original Piranha from the 70's and had a baby. The over-acting is about the only semi-funny aspect of the film.I was also hoping for an even bigger croc. I mean, since we're breaking about every single rule of logic, who cares rt? 30ft? why not 50, heck make it 100 ft.If you wanna see Bridget Fonda crying about ugly men running around in their skivvies - then this is the movie for you. If you were looking for horror/comedy, or effective horror-camp, I'd suggest you look elsewhere. 41/100lots of films of this guild are infinitely re-watchable. This isn't one of them.