Half the voices sounded dubbed over and completely out of sync with the emotion they should have had. Plus the sheriff sounded like he was purposly trying to sound like a super hero with the way he talked throughout the movie. But if anyone disagrees thats your opinion- not trying to troll or anything. . .
shareMy husband and I were just talking about how everyone sounds like they're right up in the camera, no matter how far away they are.
shareI think meaghan hit it right- did anyone notice when body parts are eating they kinda blink off - not be bitten off?
By the way - I'm kinda PO'ed how they sterotype hunters this way- it's kinda why alot of people give me thier little arrogent I'm superior then you speeches.
This movie doesn't have actors or characters, it has walking stereotypes. Why am I watching this? Why do I ever watch Sci-Fi's movies?
Damn you John Schneider! If your cute Duke-boy tush weren't attached I wouldn't have even tuned in!
I agree with you on that one, but sometimes you just have to enjoy mindless entertainment for what it is.
shareIt's good campy fun. It's pretty obvious that John Schneider is overacting the hero mannerisms and having fun with it, which he should. If he read this script and wanted to do it serious that would just be bad.
shareI'm not trying to bump my own thread but I just keep having stuff to say about it so- did anyone else notice the line "don't start anything you can't finish, it'll be your darkest hour" or something to that extent. That has got to be the cheesyist line ever, or on the top 5 at least.
shareROFL - that one with the red-tinted haired dude saying "I'm going to stay here and keep an eye on my monkey-bags" was pretty funny.
shareMy brother and I started cracking up at that line!
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This is a completely modern B style monster movie.
The fisrt Lake Placid was campy.
That grenade would have taken out the kids but ok whatever. . .
shareThat was a heck of a shot by that Duke boy, that croc utterly disintegrated into thin air yet not a plant or blade of grass was harmed ;)
shareUse captioning and then you would see the voices don't really matter. Not at all. The voices were out of sync and that girl who the main guy liked had the MOST annoying voice I ever had to hear
shareI know John Schneider is hard up for cash to make his own movie. He is actually selling his personal General Lee on ebay. This movie probably took two months to film and he likely made good money. Its like a seasonal job doing data entry during tax season--quick money for little work.
share"This movie probably took two months to film and he likely made good money"
20 days and no he didn't
HA! I know. the 2D characters were awesome because they were basically trying to be the stereotypes of the characters in lake placid the original, but hyperbolic. But you've gotta agree that watching a bunch of extremes on camera makes for one hilarious time
share"WOW Really bad acting..."
hehe, that was apparent during the opening scene. I'm just watching until Dr. Who finishes downloading.
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wow the african guy went F ucking ape shi t on that croc.
shareNotice how the croc gets selectively dexterious? It was moving like a cobra going after the chick deputy but looked like a floating turd going after the poacher guy.
shareI like how the biggest guy in the group of teens has a panic attack while the girl and scrawny kid are complaining about the rain.
shareReally bad everything. One might say it's quite a big croc of sh!t. But strangely hypnotizing in badness.
What I don't get at all is why, after watching their first boat get munched like dry toast by the first big croc, then why would they ever go out in a boat again?
Or why when Ahmed (it's pronounced Ach-med, dammit) had the op to go after the second croc while it was still blinded by the tent, he waited until its head was clear?
How blase can a sheriff be about people dying everywhere?
And how is it that people can't escape the damn thing on land, but can somehow beat it while swimming from the middle of the lake to the shore, IN ITS ELEMENT!?
How could kids possibly sleep in a tree know that a fall would mean their lives? As I write, one fell out and got munched. And as the kids still in the tree tell him not to move cause he landed on the freaking thing, what does he do? He just kept groping it til it woke up!
Anyone catch that line where the stupid girl asks what will happen if the croc catches them, just before almost sacrificing herself for Daisy the dog, and then runs ten steps and falls down?
What kind of Irish accent was that?! How stupid could it be to shoot a freaking plane with a harpoon? And they swam away from the freaking thing again!
What a silly bunch of campy crap! And I seem to be watching the whole thing. HELP, I CAN'T SEEM TO CHANGE THE CHANNEL!!
What would I do without SciFi Channel original movies?
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner in Being There
*ding dong*
"Who is it?" - girl
(muffled croc voice) "Grandma"
"Go ahead and open it, that croc must be gone by now!" - sheriff's son
*ding dong*
"Who is it?" - girl
(muffled croc voice) "Grandma"
And what was up with "Grandma" and all the hate?
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner in Being There
"Grandma" seemed to be angry at the others for letting her sister be eaten, even though her "babies" were the ones to eat her sister.
shareAnd what the hell is with the frigging rabit!!!
And your right it is hypnotizing cuz I can't stop watching this crap either!!!
I was waiting for him to say (in a superhero vioce), " And the world was saved again by me, super seriff HA HA HA."
And that return of Daisy thing was so cheesy but cute I will admit. . .
I wish he had said the full line "I hate that wascally wabbit", but all the same, that line was probably the best in the "movie".
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner in Being There
Check it out - I found an early scene from Lake Placid 3 which I guess they started filming while doing this and the croc looks much better with the more advanced technology they used...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/476256026_6e3ebf5a27_o.jpg
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner in Being There
and then he said... "after a while crocodile"... too dang funny...
shareHe didn't shoot the plane on purpose.He shot at the croc,but the stupid hunter flew in front of the harpoon,and the accent was Indian or African. An Irish accent is like the Leprechaun.
shareThe last sentence of the post of mine to which you've replied might've been a tad confusing, as I was just starting to jestfully throw out details at random which weren't adding up.
The hunter in the plane that was harpooned had the Irish accent, which was so bad, you must have failed to notice he had it. Of course "Ahmed" whose name everyone butchered was likely African, though that accent was awful as well.
As far as the harpooning of the stupid, badly-accented hunter's plane goes, sure, he was stupid to fly in front, but how the heck could anyone fail to notice the roar of its approach, or how it was about to fly where it did?
IMO, they made the film on a shoestring, a wing and a prayer, knowing that it's the kind of campy fare viewers could enjoy laughing at while tearing it's loose ends apart.
Still can't believe I watched all of that or ever still think of it.
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner in Being There
His accent wasn't a problem for me. Infact it was appealing. And so, the acting was one of the main reasons I gave it a 10.
shareA ten!?!? Wow. Out of how many, fifty? A hundred?
"I like to watch." Chauncey Gardiner in Being There
If you seriously gave this movie a 10 in any category, please do us all a favor and never rate any movie, or ever post anything on this site ever again. The acting was poor, the writing was hideous, the direction was poor, and the CGI was weak. If you want to be extremely generous, you can take into account that this was a made for tv movie that was shot in only 20 days with a really low budget. Even then you could maybe give the movie a 4 out of 10 at best. It was a mildly entertaining B movie fit for a slow Thursday night or for those people who had nothing better to do on a Saturday night than to sit home and watch the first airing. John Schneider did a fair job considering the really bad writing. The rest of the cast was weak, especially Cloris Leachman who was great as the Grandma on 'Malcolm in the Middle' but then again the writers gave her the worst dialogue of all.
shareThe line that sealed it for me was when the hippie EPA guy at the beginning goes, "I'm not Dr. Phil." (picks up severed hand) "And this ain't Oprah."
shareIt should be illegal to be this bad as an actor.
They should be tared and feathered.
now normally when I watch a movie and there is bad acting, I just look past it and try to watch the movie. But I couldn't it was just the worst acting I had ever seen. There's one part where the main cop guy (don't remember anyone's name), well anyway he was spposed to be shooting at the croc along with the other guys, and if you look carefully at one point he's pointing the handgun at the ground instead of infront of him. My dog could do a better acting job then these people did!!!
Sam: hey, about before, sorry.
Dean: no chick-flick moments.
Sam: fine, Jerk.
Dean: Bitch.
The acting is one of the reasons I gave this movie a 10. It was goofy, and just the way I like it.
sharedo you rate movies with good acting real low?
I thought the main boys acting was the worst of them all. Is he right out of acting school? did he drop out? He should change majors if he's still in school.
I also could not stand the voice dubbing, which seemed the most apparent for Emma, the female deputy/animal control/whatever.
I am a huge fan of monster/adventure movies like this and I usually love them all. Even when just compared with all other low budget monster movies I still think Lake Placid 2 is one of the worst.
Since the movie sucked so bad (and I'm sure the director knew this) he should have at least given us a random unpredictable death, like Emma or the sherriffs son. Because not only was the acting and special effects horrible, the survivors were also way too predictable. I mean, the BLACK GUY had the most shocking death. With a movie this bad I don't care if there is a happy ending and the sheriff and son each find love. Anyone watching this movie probably does not care. I think the crocs winning and eating them all would have been the only salvagable ending. Do the monsters ever win?
I give this movie a....10! Well done sci fi!
shareAnyone else notice how the grenade launcher disappears after the sheriff uses it for the first time? When he and his kid and the girl are walking across the field to the old lady's house he has a regular rifle. The launcher is nowhere to be found. Then at the finale he has the grenade launcher again. It would have been hard to notice if it was just one scene, but he had the wrong gun for about 10 minutes there. Classic.
shareI am with xcOxCoXco the acting is what makes this movie funny... its not a 10 at all, but still worth a watch.
shareBless ya benajacks. Someone who trully knows what a good movie is.
sharexcOxCoXco obviously hasn't watched a movie in his life... however the movie isn't as bad as some of the other posts are conveying. It's not going to win any awards, but it is still an entertaining films with a good amount of humor and gore.
As long as you go into not expecting to see the best film ever, you will be pleasantly surprised.
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I've seen better acting by the extras in a snuff film!
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