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- 1999
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 22 m
- 1999
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 22 m
Summary Its placid waters complement the pristine Maine wilderness it borders. This tranquil setting is probably the last place you'd expect a gruesome fatality. But then it's also the last place you?d expect to find a 30-foot, narrow-snouted, multi-toothed, reptilian of the species Crocodylus. An eating machine more commonly known as a crocodil...
Directed By: Steve Miner
Written By: David E. Kelley
- 1999
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 22 m
- 1999
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 22 m
Lake Placid
34
6.3
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Summary Its placid waters complement the pristine Maine wilderness it borders. This tranquil setting is probably the last place you'd expect a gruesome fatality. But then it's also the last place you?d expect to find a 30-foot, narrow-snouted, multi-toothed, reptilian of the species Crocodylus. An eating machine more commonly known as a crocodil...
Directed By: Steve Miner
Written By: David E. Kelley
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
34
16% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
32% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
52% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
34
16% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
32% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
52% Negative
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
A straightforward camping-holiday nightmare, or a sly, ironic take on the same. It works deliciously as both.
Comes in well under the ninety-minute mark, leaving no room for bombast or overkill.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
6.3
47% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
44% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
10% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
6.3
47% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
44% Mixed
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
10% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
This film is one of the very few big budget crocodile movies ever made. And if you love crocodile movies, then this certainly is the first one to watch. It's an enjoyable movie. It had a good amount of action and a decent story and some good characters in it. But above all, it was Stan Winston's incredible animatronic crocodile that made this film a true popcorn flick!
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It also goes out of its way to give you a schlocky B-movie vibe by wrangling bait in the form of a bunch of Big-Gulp stupid stock characters - that's a whopping 44 oz. more stupid than you probably were bargaining for.
At least White summons the camp energy that Lake Placid is fecklessly seeking.
The movie is pretty bad, all right. But it has a certain charm. It's so completely wrong-headed from beginning to end that it develops a doomed fascination.
By the end of this mercifully short excuse for a horror movie, you'll be wishing the beast had chowed down on the entire ensemble.
Love this movie. This is the only movie I ever seen with some gigantic alligators. How fast they can kill someone in this movie is insane.
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I like this big monster cheesy horror. It reminds me of Anaconda (1997). There is nothing wrong with it at all. It is fast paced with a little gore and some strong horror. I love to hate the characters and it is funny enough to entertain when there is no giant crocodile eating people. One of the most enjoyable giant monster movies out there. Well worth viewing.
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lol I haven't watched this movie seen the VCR / VHS days, I forgot how good this was. Oliver Platt and Brendan Gleeson's characters definitely had something going on.
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Lake Placid pays homage to (or rips off, depending on your point of view) numerous monster movies, but mostly it's trying to be Jaws with a crocodile, as demonstrated by everything from the film's story to its cinematography to its music. Rip-off or not, it's pretty consistently entertaining throughout, with plenty of obligatory jumpy moments and dismemberment, decent creature effects, a good dose of black comedy, some pleasingly silly set pieces and a team of bickering idiots to follow as protagonists. Less satisfying is the film's script, which is pretty crude, often bordering on dumb (particularly disappointing as it comes from the usually brilliant David E. Kelly), and all characters remain woefully two-dimensional throughout the film. The cast's performances are of mixed quality - Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda are both incredibly wooden, and their characters' relationship, which is meant to be the romantic core of the film, isn't believable in the slightest, but Brendan Gleeson is good, and Betty White looks as though she is having an immense amount of fun swearing like a sailor. Lake Placid is probably the best of the 90s creature-features (though that's not saying much when your bedfellows are Arachnophobia and Anaconda), but at the end of the day you have to acknowledge that the film is utter trash. It's largely quite enjoyable trash, but it's still trash all the same.
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It was just mediocre. Nothing more and nothing less. What kept it from being good was the comedic overtones and the corny dialogue. But the biggest problem was that there's a giant crocodile in a lake in a movie that's rated R and only 2 people get eaten in the 82 minute runtime!
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