Friday, August 14, 2009

Lake Placid (1999)

"Lake Placid" is a bad film. A wonderfully, silly, over-the-top laugh-out-loud bad-on-purpose film that can be watched over and over again. The take: In Maine, a killer crocodile is munching on people, and a museum worker (!!! played by Bridgett Fonda) and a parks ranger (Bill Pullman) are among the many tasked with finding and stopping the beast. It's all so wonderfully silly and wonderfully delivered. The film's a joke on a whole set of genres: the monster in nature, romantic dramas and horror. Betty White, God, I love that woman, appears as a wacked local with the mouth of a dozen degenerate Marines. Her line about not having a d*ck is nothing short of brilliant. The crocodile-eats-bear scene still is one of the best laughs I've ever had. B+

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