Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 42
Faux horror schtick fails to elicit any laughs or scares.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 17
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 13
Faux horror schtick fails to elicit any laughs or scares.
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So what's under the water in that lake deep in the Maine woods? No one is sure what it could be, but a dead and severely mutilated body was found near the shore, and the only clue is a large tooth which appears to be from a prehistoric animal resembling a huge crocodile. Jack Wells (Bill Pullman), the local fish and game warden, is investigating the case when he's assigned a helper, paleontologist Kelly Scott (Bridget Fonda). Kelly generally does office work since she hates the outdoors (a
Jul 16, 1999 Wide
Jan 11, 2000
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
All Critics (91) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (43) | DVD (18)
A funny film!
Has an easygoing sense of fun, along with one of the more memorable movie monsters of recent years.
Lake Placid isn't so bad that it's good; it's so bad that it's really bad.
This is just a variant on ten thousand other huge-creature-tryin'-to-kill-me movies.
Lake Placid could easily have been made as a PG-13 movie, or perhaps even a PG. But the better to tempt teen-age audiences, it talks its way into an R.
A passable yet unspectacular horror effort...
Surprise to say, the film is actually, by turns, both scary and funny, although seldom at the same time.
Far from being a great film, but it's a guilty pleasure for sure.
Steve Miner directs this shaggy-dog movie that wonderfully reveals the strange and the wondrous in all of God's creations.
To begin with its not even Lake Placid, but some other lake, this one up in Maine ("the graveyard of horror!" ... I just said that. I don't know if its true. Like the sound of it though. London's maybe the real graveyard ... anyway ) and there's something in the water, something big, and its eating people. Funny
October 21, 2011Super Reviewer
Lake Placid I believe is a very underrated film. The film seems to be crucified by the fact it was written by Alley McBeal creator, David E. Kelly. If you can get past this fact, Lake Placid is a very entertaining horror comedy. The acting is decent at best and the scares are good enough, but the film works because it
February 13, 2011
Super Reviewer
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