WasAnnon
Slow pace in the most part of the movie.
Sexyloutak
Absolutely the worst movie.
Ezmae Chang
This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
Nick Duguay
Well, it's crap, but it's entertaining crap. A lot of people judge this movie very harshly because it was directed by Tobe Hooper and I can't blame them. This isn't a good movie. It's silly, it panders to the teen crowd with awful dialogue and stupid jokes. The crocodile is laughable. Bad CGI. But there a few moments I do enjoy, some nice cinematography and overhead scenes of the lake and forest. And if you're a fan of the campy teen scare scene you'll probably enjoy the beginning at least a bit.
Overall I'd say it's very middle of the road.
TheLittleSongbird
I was expecting little from Crocodile but was hoping I would enjoy it despite its limitations. But I just couldn't. It looks cheap for starters with choppy editing and very fake-looking and poorly-utilised effects. Okay, I knew the effects were not going to be great because of the budget but that is no excuse for the lack of effect, for that was the impression I got. The script is cheesy(the campfire scene) and has no sense of tension or foreboding, the music is over-bearing with little much original or memorable and the story is dull(with the romance subplot further dragging things down) and predictable with the killings undermined by very fake gore. There is some questionable logic and continuity, seeing as crocodiles don't come from America the title should've been Alligator instead, and the crocodile lacks menace and the way it's used is little different from other similar creature movies I've seen. I wouldn't have minded that the characters were clichéd, if they weren't so shallow and annoying, and if most of the actors didn't literally scream their lines all the time. Overall, a terrible movie even with the limitations. 1/10 Bethany Cox
Bloodwank
Of the various horror notables to emerge in the 1970's Tobe Hooper scored by far the finest achievement with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Its a great shame then that he also fell the hardest, his work largely drying up and turning crappy. This Nu Image (they of such classics as Octopus, Spiders, Octopus 2 and Spiders 2) effort is pretty much his nadir, a really crummy affair that manages to be less entertaining even than the massed crappy ranks of Sci Fi Channel original creature features that have befouled screens in recent years. Its a tale of youngsters on Spring Break, partying it up on a houseboat in a lake until a couple of them come across a nest of variously shattered eggs and decide to mess around with the few that aren't broken some more. The expected happens. Now, I have absolutely zero sympathy for anyone who gets themself into a situation like this, quite apart from common decency its a matter of basic common sense not to mess with someones young, especially when you have no idea what or how big that someone is. Like, if you were trying to steal eggs from a golden eagle and the thing came down and pecked your eyes out and then pooped on you or something, nobody would be sympathetic because rank idiocy isn't a thing of sympathy. So I pretty much wanted several of the cast to die particularly horribly, and I can't say as I had nice thoughts for the rest as none of the characters are likable or interesting. Sadly, the horrible death never comes. All the kills are pretty tame, when actually on screen they generally come down to nothing more than mildly bloody and not especially convincing chomping action and occasionally some minor blood spray. It pretty much ruins things as gore was the main thing that could have propped this one up, and is especially unfortunate as the usually great KNB team handled the effects work. The crocodile itself is at least pretty cool, a good sized and decently fierce looking beast achieved through a mixture of animatronics and CGI, its more than convincing enough for a film of this stature and raises the game whenever its on screen. But since it isn't on screen all that much and rarely gets to do anything cool (mostly its just jumping and gobbling people) it doesn't raise the film too much. Still, attacks on a houseboat and local store are kinda fun and it does amuse in a couple of spots. The cast do their best with the material but its pretty much horrid so they don't put across a good impression. Mark McLachlan is a limp hero, Caitlin Martin a nice looking but dull love interest, Chris Solari making the biggest impression as the loud mouth ass of the group. There's some nice scenery and the film is never completely boring, but its really pretty terrible and I wouldn't recommend it other than to the least discerning viewers.
BA_Harrison
A pound doesn't buy a lot these days, so when I saw a brand spanking new copy of Tobe Hooper's Crocodile on DVD for precisely that amount, I figured there must be worse ways to waste a quid and 'snapped' it up.And while I don't exactly regret buying the film (I am, after all, a total horror addict, and will watch virtually any rubbish in order to satisfy my cravings), on reflection, a pound does seem a little steep.With its monster-movie-by-numbers plot (killer croc on the loose), one dimensional characters (assorted jocks and bimbos, a tough cop and an experienced hunter), and clichéd delivery, I realise that this film was never intended to be anything other than a bit of low-budget B-movie monster fun, but even with my expectations set low, I found Crocodile to be rather disappointing.Usually, even when at his most uninspired, Hooper is capable of delivering an occasional moment of dark humour, the odd creepy scene or convincingly nasty bit of gore, but with this lacklustre effort, he merely goes through the motions. The result is an instantly forgettable giant-killer-animal-on-the-loose straight-to-DVD clunker of the type found clogging up the bottom shelves at your local Blockbuster (the kind that sport such inventive titles as Octopus, Python, Spiders, and.... well ...Crocodile, I suppose).I'm not sure what the budget was on this production, but judging by the effects on display, I'm guessing it was mega-low. The titular monster is portrayed via an unconvincing mix of full-size models and laughable bargain basement CGI, whilst the sparse gore, by the usually reliable KNB FX group, definitely looks like it was knocked up on the cheap. Hell, the budget doesn't even stretch far enough to convince the babes to get their norks out—exactly what kind of B-movie is this, Mr. Hooper? If you can't give us decent gore, at least give us gratuitous nudity.To be fair, the film doesn't drag, and there is a certain amount of fun to be had from this flick's general cheesiness, but one can't help but wonder how the man who gave the world Leatherface could sink this low.The last time Hooper dabbled with killer reptiles, he gave us Eaten Alive, which I gave a reasonable 6/10. With this second attempt at a croc-shocker, he gets 3.5 (generously rounded up to 4 for IMDb). If I were Tobe, I wouldn't try again. I'll probably end up having to give a 1... and I really don't want to have to do that!!!
