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2001-09-21

The movie Lake Placid is dumb, stupid, annoying, crap, and every other synonymous word that I can’t think of. And they, the characters, party to a rather famous song by Tom Jones, in the middle of the forest with a giant crocodile roaming the neighbourhood. This means that nothing can forgive its existence. Why, Oliver Platt? Why, Bill Pullman?

In similar vein, Mars Attacks! is also dumb, stupid, annoying, crap, and feature the same Tom Jones song. Not to forget Tom Jones himself, something I can’t no matter how much I try. But at least it’s entertaining.

Lake Placid just is, for some reason. I wonder where the hell is Steve “Oh boy, is this crocodile cranky now!” Irvin when you really need him, because he could have hunted this damn movie down and locked it up before I got to see it.

Additionally, David E. Kelley who wrote the bloody thing probably had written it for an episode of Ally McBeal, but due to the problem of getting a huge crocodile into the courtroom plotwise, he had no choice but to expand it into a movie. There are some “evidence” for this. Bridget Fonda obviously, from her behaviour and lines, is the part which should have been Ally. And then we have other persons who do characters from The Practice, Chicago Hope and Picket Fences.

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