About as much fun as being lost in a swamp.
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11/04/09
Swamp Thing (1981)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:18
Rotten:8
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Unabashedly campy -- often to its detriment -- Swamp Thing is not without its charms, among them Adrienne Barbeau as the damsel in distress.
Runtime: 1 hr 32 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: In an attempt to relieve the world of hunger, a group of scientists develop a chemical which causes things to grow at a prodigious rate. When the substance is spilled on one of the researchers, he... [More]
Starring: Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise, David Hess
Director: Wes Craven
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Reviews for Swamp Thing
It's awfully likeable and definitely has a so-bad-it's-good quality.
06/13/08
No review available.
10/26/07
Oh yes, Adrienne Barbeau. Thanks for the memories.
09/29/07
The whole thing is merely silly and not much fun.
04/16/07
Short on thrills and laughs.
04/16/07
Craven keeps the story moving at a sprint and writes some agonizingly (and probably intentionally) terrible dialogue.
04/09/07
Craven tries to do this 'veggie-man' horror in a suitable DC Comics style; and with Louis Jourdan as arch-villain 'Arcane', not to mention Adrienne Barbeau (Mrs John Carpenter) as the Thing's object of desire, he's definitely on the right track.
02/09/06
It's Swamp Thing. It's not Swamp Hamlet or MacBeth Thing.
08/20/05
No review available.
07/21/05
Comic book sludge hero trashes bad guys.
12/28/04
Nutty, scary and fun
11/08/04
One of those movies that fall somewhere between buried treasures and guilty pleasures.
10/23/04
Top Critic[The film] wants desperately to be funny and, from time to time, it is. However, you might wish it would trust the audience to discover the humor for itself.
08/30/04
No review available.
09/20/03
No review available.
07/16/03
A silly, campy comic book adaptation that gets the tone just right and has the good sense to cast Adrienne Barbeau's breasts.
07/14/03
Silly cheesy fun from Wes Craven
01/09/03
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August 31, 2009:
Joel Silver Prepping 3-D Swamp Thing 
The next "Superman" movie may take awhile to reach screens, but producer Joel Silver is keeping busy with another DC property: "Swamp Thing," which he'd like to film in 3-D. More...
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