Teelie
Commander Catnip
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- Jun 21, 2011
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A movie like this should be good campy fun. It's loaded in the camp, low on the fun and the good is nowhere to be found.
The story is flimsy thin. The obvious setup is a group of women from a prison out in the swamp who are attacked by prehistoric sharks from a deep subterranean ocean unleashed by the latest environmental hazard: frakking.
These sharks inexplicably are capable of swimming in the shallowest of waters and even into land! Yes, actual, honest to god land sharks. They even reference the SNL skit at one point. Think Jaws meeets Tremors and you get the idea (the sharks even have the movable spikes sticking out of them to facilitatedigging swimming through dirt like the graboids in Tremors).
The CG sharks (fins and backs which we see 90% of the time) aren't bad but the movie is just so disappointing in the story and every other way possible that it feels wasted on a C-grade movie. These easily could have been B-movie quality shark effects. We never get a really good look at the sharks more than two or three times and only for a second.
Despite that, this could have been a decent B-movie had they put any effort whatsoever into making it. The idea is pretty much Piranha 3-D with sharks and a shoestring budget.
Given the blatant exploitation title you would expect copious amounts of T&A but there is no nudity despite some of the actresses being comfortable having done so in the past. There is a surprisingly little amount of gore and what there is consists mostly of CG blood and laughably bad graphical "body parts." The language is also surprisingly tame, like this movie was meant to be PG-13. In fact Dominque Swain repeats the phrase "crap on a cracker" no less than 3 times and I'm not rephrasing that as less vulgar.
There is however plenty of woman on woman kissing/making out between two of the leads, Dominque Swain and Cindy Lucas. Traci Lords is the main star as much as she can be called a star playing a detective. She has no interaction with the prisoners and only meets with one of two remaining guards keeping tabs on 6 or so prisoners. Many of them just get eaten off screen in splashy, noisy screams and laughbly bad CG blood splatters.
As to acting... there was none. These are all people capable of acting, they just didn't bother.
There are several other throw-away characters and the obvious set up for a sequel that should not happen.
So anyone who sees this movie on Netflix or for sale expecting titilation or so-bad-it's-good camp, you won't find either. It's so bad it is just bad.
The story is flimsy thin. The obvious setup is a group of women from a prison out in the swamp who are attacked by prehistoric sharks from a deep subterranean ocean unleashed by the latest environmental hazard: frakking.
These sharks inexplicably are capable of swimming in the shallowest of waters and even into land! Yes, actual, honest to god land sharks. They even reference the SNL skit at one point. Think Jaws meeets Tremors and you get the idea (the sharks even have the movable spikes sticking out of them to facilitate
The CG sharks (fins and backs which we see 90% of the time) aren't bad but the movie is just so disappointing in the story and every other way possible that it feels wasted on a C-grade movie. These easily could have been B-movie quality shark effects. We never get a really good look at the sharks more than two or three times and only for a second.
Despite that, this could have been a decent B-movie had they put any effort whatsoever into making it. The idea is pretty much Piranha 3-D with sharks and a shoestring budget.
Given the blatant exploitation title you would expect copious amounts of T&A but there is no nudity despite some of the actresses being comfortable having done so in the past. There is a surprisingly little amount of gore and what there is consists mostly of CG blood and laughably bad graphical "body parts." The language is also surprisingly tame, like this movie was meant to be PG-13. In fact Dominque Swain repeats the phrase "crap on a cracker" no less than 3 times and I'm not rephrasing that as less vulgar.
There is however plenty of woman on woman kissing/making out between two of the leads, Dominque Swain and Cindy Lucas. Traci Lords is the main star as much as she can be called a star playing a detective. She has no interaction with the prisoners and only meets with one of two remaining guards keeping tabs on 6 or so prisoners. Many of them just get eaten off screen in splashy, noisy screams and laughbly bad CG blood splatters.
As to acting... there was none. These are all people capable of acting, they just didn't bother.
There are several other throw-away characters and the obvious set up for a sequel that should not happen.
So anyone who sees this movie on Netflix or for sale expecting titilation or so-bad-it's-good camp, you won't find either. It's so bad it is just bad.
