Lake Placid (1999)

Director: Steve Miner

You'll never know what bit you

Writer: David E. Kelley

Starring: Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt

The best character by far is Mrs. Delores Bickerman (played by the lovely Betty White) as the little old woman who feeds the crocodiles that ate her husband whilst he was trying to save one of their cows. This film is actually about Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and Oliver Platt attempting to capture a massive crocodile that is living in a quiet American lake. They catch the crocodile in the end (by trapping it in a helicopter!?) only to find that there is a little crocodile. Que one of Delores Bickerman’s brilliant thoughts “she didn’t tell us about the smaller one incase we killed it” – in fact they blew it’s head of…literally.

Though the acting is stange in places, the writing soon makes up for it and the best thing about this film is the comedy.

BEST QUOTE

Mrs. Bickerman: I’m rooting for the crocodile. I hope he swallows your friends whole. You might want to arrest me for that too. Is that a crime? To wish the chewing of law enforcement?

7/10

~ by ejmarquez on September 7, 2009.