Supergator (2007)

So much average

Best movie ever!

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Blistering performances.

Working in Hawaii to stop an impending eruption, a vulcanologist and his team come across a scientist tracking an escaped prehistoric crocodile in the area and must unite to bring the creature down before it rampages through the area.Overall this one was a very enjoyable cheesy creature feature. What makes this one so much fun is the rather fun encounters that come about here from the continuation of the channel's quick-shot attacks throughout here. The suspenseful stalking of the couple at the lake in the beginning, the cheesy model photo-shoot at the waterfall which leads in the first of many chases through the forest, the attack on the pot harvesters at the clearing or the tense scene of the couple hiding out by the trees in the jungle where they hope to let it pass by without being seen are all part of this kind of set-up along the first half. The second half of the film is where this one really gets fun with the attack on the ridge coming up through the trees and launching a surprise attack, the ambush at the waterfall knocking them into the water and the incredibly fun time of the jeep attack that leads into the chase through the forest all come off as rather fun attacks in here due to the rather enjoyable time here. Even with these, though, the film's at its best with the finale where the creature attacks the tourists at the resort which has a ton of high-quality features, from the stalking of the guests to the chaos of the panicked crowds fleeing it advancing after them, the gunfire brought to bear on the creature to bring it down resulting in some great action to come along chasing it around and the final resolution to kill the creature gives this one a lot to really like, especially with the other big action scenes in this section really building into a solid series of scenes keeping the pace up quite nicely here. There's also quite a bit of fun with the main creature here, having not only a fun overall design suitable for a cheesy creature feature while also managing to get a nice tactic out of the use of the realistic creatures' jaws throughout many of the attacks which gives this a really cheesy tone that makes this one good enough to overcome the few flaws in here. The biggest issue in this one comes from the film's rather uneven first half which is filled with the brief attacks while spending far too much time on the back-story for each of the incidental characters set-up here as cannon-fodder. The photo-shoot models, the sorority couple, and the stoners all get way too much there than they really should since they're here only to up the body count. The other flaw here is the per-usual CGI that c comes into use for the creature which comes with all the usual hallmarks of the style here. These are what hold this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and drug use.

I wasn't expecting much from Supergator, and at the end of the day it was neither better or worse than I was expecting, not quite good enough to be one of SyFy's more tolerable efforts and not quite bad enough to be among their worst. I did like the Jaws homages and a couple of the gruesome deaths were reasonably fun. However, Supergator does suffer from a number of assets that make even the worst of SyFy's output intolerably bad. It is cheap visually, with choppy editing and laughably fake effects. The script, especially the one-liners, is incredibly cheesy, sometimes amusingly but often after like the tenth cheesy line I got irritated, the story is so thin you wonder whether there is one at all and is predictable, ridiculous and has holes so big and so vast it was like trying to drive a truck along a road full of them and the characters are stereotypical of the usual SyFy creature movie clichés and superfluously developed. I've seen worse acting before, but it is still really atrocious, with everybody looking uncharismatic and stiff throughout. All in all, not the worst SyFy movie I've seen but still cheap and idiotic. 3/10 Bethany Cox

Every once in a while the SyFy channel offers up an interesting action horror flick; this is not one. Scott Kinney plays a geologist along with a gaggle of vulcanologists studying an Hawaiian volcano that may be nearing eruption. Molten lava would be a horrific way to die; but that could be made even worse. A 30-foot-long supergator has escaped a secret bio-engineering research center; it was born of fossilized prehistoric DNA. The spikey-backed komodo dragon-like creator decides to head down river to a high dollar tourist trap/resort for lunch. This supergator manages to quickly travel distances to sustain his insatiable lust for crunchy blood. CGI and acting is about as ridiculous as the story. In the cast: Bianca Lawson, Josh Kelly, Holly Weber, Meg Cionni and an almost unrecognizable Kelly McGillis.

B-movies can sometimes be so uniquely and creatively bad they become fun to watch. Supergator is really, really bad...but not in a unique or fun way. It's a very poorly done rip-off of Jurassic Park, Lake Placid and just about any monster movie you've ever seen all rolled into one.At first the movie seems to be playing up its own cheesiness, with lots of babes in bikinis and ridiculous acting. However, as the story progresses it becomes unclear if the director started to take things a little too seriously. We start to wonder, "Wait, did they think they were actually making a good movie and not a B-movie laugher?". At one point the film actually tries to logically explain why there's a giant, pre-historic gator living on a volcanic mountain in Hawaii. Whatever, I was looking for more babes in bikinis at that point.How did Kelly McGillis end up in this mess? She was a real star at one point. Has her career sunk to the level of Supergator? Maybe it's time to retire. The bad acting is compounded by a script that takes itself way too seriously. Bianca Lawson, one of the leads, is so bad she has no business even trying to act. Some people simply have no talent for acting. She is one of them.As for the special effects, they are perhaps the worst I have ever seen. If you're going to make a movie (even a B-movie) about a giant killer gator, at least have the budget to make it look somewhat real. The gator looks like a low-resolution animation from a video game that was dropped into the film at the last minute.The biggest question has to be: Why even spend money making a movie like this? The entire idea is a complete retread of movies that have already been made with a bigger budget, better writing and better actors. Although this movie has its campy moments, it's not campy enough to come off as a parody.The money spent making this disaster could have been put towards a much better, original idea. Or they could have just given the money to charity. Either would have been a better use of the funds.