Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Michelle Ridley The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

sddavis63 I did learn something from this movie. The fact that one of its stars is Tom Skerritt definitely demonstrates that, at least in 2006, Tom Skerritt was getting desperate for work. Don't even try to ask me why this movie intrigued me. It sounded like a hokey, 60's style sci-fi movie that might turn out to be fun by the time that it was over. It didn't. It was just bad all the way through. Bad story, bad script, bad performances. The idea of a revived woolly mammoth on a rampage in a small town seemed to have potential - especially since there are in fact scientists today hoping to use recovered mammoth DNA to bring back the species, for reasons known only to themselves. But this just turned out to be silly - especially the hole "alien entity inside the mammoth" twist.But the "best" line of the movie had to have been spoken by one of the government agents as they were looking for the mammoth. There was a "countdown" going on (oh, please.) 9 hours and 48 minutes. "If we don't find a way to contain or destroy this creature before the time is up the government is going to destroy this whole town." Setting aside that that's a pretty precise countdown for such a thing, um, well, it's a MAMMOTH! The entire bloody species was hunted to extinction (with some help from mother nature) by early, primitive humans using spears. We have guns. And tanks. And all sorts of other "wonderful" things like that - including futuristic looking weapons pulled out by the agent near the end of the movie with the words "these won't stop the mammoth, but they'll slow it down." Why won't they stop the mammoth? Why can't we figure out how to take down ONE mammoth without destroying the entire town? Oh yeah. The whole alien thing - whatever that was, because by the time it was introduced I was already 80% tuned out of this and wasn't ever really clear on it, because I couldn't stomach going back to figure it out. But I guess it was about the only pathetic excuse they could come up with for keeping this movie going for an interminable and unmerciful 90 minutes. That's it. Never have the words "The End" been so welcome! (1/10)

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain The Sci-Fi Channel presents one of its finest movies. A frozen mammoth is brought back to life by aliens and starts causing havoc.It actually looks pretty darn good in terms of cinematography. The casting of Skerritt and Glau also allows for some pretty respectable acting. Mammoth knows when to poke fun at itself, and has some of the best dialogue you're ever likely to hear. "God is for Sunday Frank. Today we pray to Nike! RUN!" The CGI is also pretty endearing, never fully convincing, but you believe the actors can see the thing and it doesn't detract from the film. If you're into your stupid B-Movies, especially ones that genuinely try. A perfect mixture of B-movie brilliance and badness.

MartianOctocretr5 Goes for a satire of oldy sci-fi stuff from the drive-in era. Some of the cliché sight gags work, enough to sit through it.The story itself is pretty lame and poorly developed, an idea ripped from Night at the Museum. Some alien toy that looks like an xbox360 is used to animate a Wolly Mammoth from some bones on display at the local museum. From there it's just a series of "Do you recognize what movie this joke refers to?" type events. Everything from the "couple making out gets attacked" bit to the "Men in Black" jazz parades by in no particular order. Lines are corny (on purpose), and characters are all pretty dumb(also on purpose).The intentional hokeyness is funny in places, with the over-acting being the only real minus. An OK watch if you have nothing else to do.

xredgarnetx MAMMOTH is one in an endless line of sci-flicks shot on the cheap for The Sci-Fi Channel. The plot is always the same: a group of people must face a CGI creation of some sort, whether it be a flying reptile, a smilodon, a giant spider, or in this case, a resurrected mammoth. Actually, the CGI in this one isn't all that bad, and no one takes the plot too seriously. Tom Skerritt is the only name actor, and is almost unrecognizable as the only "senior" in the group. Summer Glau of FIREFLY pops in, for the fanboy crowd. A time killer that actually is heads above the last couple of these CGI creature fests. But as usual, there's too much running around to pad out the running time, no pun intended.