DIRECTOR: Steve Miner
MPAA RATING: R
RUNNING TIME: 88 Minutes
STUDIO: 20th Century Fox
| Lake Placid (1999) |
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| CAST: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt
DIRECTOR: Steve Miner MPAA RATING: R RUNNING TIME: 88 Minutes STUDIO: 20th Century Fox |
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What's in Lake Placid, you ask? A 30-foot crocodile that just loves to eat anything floating in the water. The giant reptile has swum from Asia to a little town in Maine. Why? Who knows, but a search group, led by Bill Pullman and Bridget Fonda, is out to catch him.
More laughs than scares, LAKE PLACID is a smaller, not-as-fun version of ANACONDA. It hides the crocodile about as well as hiding the action. David E. Kelley's script looks and sounds like an extended version of Ally McBeal�with a crocodile. This just doesn't feel like a monster movie, and it isn't. It's a comedy with some bits of gore added in. So, why didn't the crocodile leave the lake to begin with? Well, good old Betty White has been feeding him for a few years. Does that sound insane? Of course, even for a movie. Next time you go up to cold Maine and you're hunting 30-foot crocodiles, make sure to bait your helicopter with a cow. It's the best way to catch them. |
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