Wednesday 23 May 2012

Dinocroc vs. Supergator
Year: 2010
SYFY Channel

Written by: Mike Maclean
                  Jim Wynorski
Directed by: Jim Wynorski
Starring:
  • David Carradine as Jason Drake
  • Corey Landis as Paul Beaumont
  • Amy Rasimas as Cassidy Swanson
  • Rib Hillis as Bob Logan
  • John Callahan as Charlie Swanson
  • Delia Shepard as Kimbery Taft
  • Jerry Hess as Jerry the Pool Boy
  • Shane Schoeppner as Scientist - Kill #2


Having watched a vast number of these "Syfy" TV "Movies", and I use the term "Movie" lightly, I went into this not expecting a whole lot. Having seen "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" recently, I was not expecting a film as good as this. Of course, this is no Citizen Kane or Inception, and quite frankly I'm glad to be honest. For what it is, this is one of the most entertaining Giant Monster movies to come out from "Syfy" in a while.

Our film starts at a research centre. It becomes apparent that not all is good, when alarms are blaring informing the staff to evacuate the premises. In one the most hilarious and cliched lines written a middle aged female in a lab coat yells; "Everybody out now! It's escaped!" I am not joking when I say this literally happened no more than thirty seconds into the film. We now cut to a group of scientists (again, in generic white lab coats) running around a courtyard area trying to avoid giant CGI monsters. Once they have killed an appropriate amount of researchers the monsters escape the lab. The research centre is run by none other than David Carradine! (In sadly one of his last roles). Now aware that his secret creations have escaped he hires in an elite force of military to take the monsters down. Within five minutes it becomes apparent that bullets have no effect on CGI, and all the men are either eaten or crushed to death. Jason Drake (Carradine) now hires a fish and game hunter (Hillis) known as "The Cajun" to do the job properly. Meanwhile Paul Beaumont (Landis), a spy working for the government, has been spying on the secret research being carried out at the Lab, he teams up with local cop (and eye candy) Cassidy Swanson (Rasimas) and "The Cajun" to take the monsters down. After various more kills, all hilarious I might add, they finally catch up with the monsters, who are now fighting with each other. After one of them is killed, lets just call it "The smaller of the two", Landis kills the other with a grenade. Fantastic.

I'd actually have to recommend this Movie to any fan of B-rate Monster Movies. It's a lot of fun and pretty much hilarious the entire way through. If you don't want to watch 90 minutes of it, fair enough, but at least skip to the scene where Carradine is on the phone to Jerry Hess. Funny as fuck.

Obscure Video gives this: 7/10.

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