Tasmanian Devils (2013)

Sadly Over-hyped

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The epitome of a Vancouver sci-fi production featuring a slate of actors who in some cases appeared in all 3 of the above noted shows.I guess once you act in a syfy show, you are forever doomed to appear in lower caliber syfy movies of the week, but at leaat you know every now and then you can collect a paycheck that covers the bills for a few months for your 20 days work on the movie.Its pretty funny to watch a bunch of actors who are all pushing, if not over 40, trying to act like a bunch of careless 20 something rebels... the opening scene was particularly testing but thankfully that act dropped 15 minutes into the movie (which was 15 minutes to long but beggars cannot be choosers).Danica is very intent on proving to the world that you can be a hot brainy almost 40 something woman who also sort of acts, and she wears the bustier/corset in this movie to prove it, but I for one am not complaining! You just have to ignore the look of pain when she occasionally turned and it squeezed the breath out of her while simultaneously pushing forward her attributes....Sadly we saw not a hint of anything else, and the lovely Rekha Sharma did not get any opportunity to display her equally attractive charms.Its not hard to guess how this movie will progress - its a timeworn (and well worn) plot to have all the characters drop off one by one until only one fair lass and knight remain, who shall of course end up forever entwined.It certainly was not the worst timewaster - I have endured much, much worse from syfy, and if you are seeking a 90 minute mindless popcorn movie when you need to kill some time, you may survive the experience better then its participants!

6 base jumpers (5 guys and only 1 girl) fly in a chopper to some forbidden area in Tasmania. Once they arrive, the first goof jumps, waits to long to open his chute ends up crashing through trees, falls through the ground, and gets impaled on a pointy rock. His blood flows through some channels and starts bubbling. Now something awakens in the cave.Eventually some of the others make it down there but they hear something and run away. Meanwhile the park rangers are looking for them. They find them as they run and arrest them. There are three ranchers, 2 guys and a girl who knows about aboriginal mythology.When she hears their story she has an inkling of what is going on. The ranchers check out the cave and find that what the others are saying is true. As they all drive back to the station, they are attacked by something with a glowing red mouth. Two of the ranger are caught. The rest escape after getting a closeup look of what they're facing. From the ranger girl we learn that the things are ancestors of the Tasmanian Devil that were said to eat humans whole. But these things don't have hair but more of a dinosaur stone-like appearance. They scream like Tassies, have a glowing red mouth, and are attracted to noise.One guy who is gung-ho and another guy try to run to the helicopter to rescue the others but things don't turn out well. Next they try to trap the devils in a cave. That doesn't work either. By now most of the bunch are dead and the remaining ones will give it one last shot.It's not a bad idea to make a horror movie about Tasmanian Devils. This one is your usual Syfy fare--on a low budget, filmed in Canada, and with lousy effects. Initially effects seem promising. During the night chase sequence, the creature looks well-done, but once things shift to day the creatures look like 80s CGI effect. The story is alright for what it is, the cast is OK, although it could have used some more females. I'm not sure who exactly the audience is supposed to be for these movies but perhaps they would like it, otherwise there's not much here that stands out.

Some young(-ish) explorer types fall foul of vicious creatures in Tasmania and are forest rangers are on hand as additional monster bait.Lets put to one side the fact that, apart from the name (and pretending to be in Tasmania), this film has nothing to do with Australia's neighbouring island, nor the wildlife which one would expect to encounter on it. A cast of unknowns compete not to be chewed and generally mangled by some CGI critters. There are assorted gory physical effects, some of which are well done. There are CGI monsters which vary from very well done to execrable. The camera work is steady.But I don't think I would recommend this.

Monster movies have always been a guilty pleasure of mine. So even a low budget film about killer marsupials (opossums) sounded interesting.I figured there would be one giant marsupial or swarms of killer marsupials but instead there's no monster. Let me be clear about this. The monster is NEVER shown! It does NOT appear on camera! The plot: American tourists illegally trespass on an Aboriginal reservation and awaken an demonic giant Tasmanian devil. Or so they claim! Remember we never actually see the monster! Park rangers intervene. Oddly, the park rangers are also Americans. Making it obvious that NONE of this was actually filmed in Australia! No matter what IMDb claims!!! The film also opens with a park ranger explaining how the Tasmanian devil has the most powerful bite in the world. This is obviously a pathetic attempt to make us fear and respect the awesome power of Australian opossums.It reminded me of the opening of 'The Killer Shrews.' Trying to make us fear shrews and opossums just isn't going to happen! Later one of the park rangers remarks that Australia doesn't have any "man eating species." OF COURSE THEY DO!!! Crocodiles and great white sharks do kill and eat some tourists. Maybe that's why they're scary and opossums are not.Don't even see this movie as a drinking game. There isn't any material that can even be laughed at.Once again let me say, there are NO monsters or a monster in this movie!