One of the best "jaws" rip-offs ever, maybe smarter, certainly more vicous. nice blend of animatroniocs and live gators w/ scale sets make it legit. goes on the good cop/bad cop tip w/ freshness and humor. they used to play this on the sunday night abc movie all the time growing up and that says something. classic moment: the halloween party which the kid walks the plank and the alligators in the pool...freaked me out on pools for years...
Yeah, not too shabby.
It's got a good condensed storyline that doesn't try to sell you some kind of phony message and keeps you caring about what happens to every character from start to finished.
Much better then it's P.O.S. sequel.
I agree, I enjoyed this when I was younger, especially the wedding scene lol
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I agree with the halloween scene, I remember the kid walking the plank, all you saw was the alligator in the pool with it's mouth open waiting for the kid to fall in.
I also liked when Kelly was killed although was a shame cos he was cool. Would have been better if it was Madison, Kelly and of course Robin Riker as the leads.
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Yes, I also thought it was very good, and really liked it. I did see this movie for the first time on Sunday night on ABC (as the movie of the week) in early 1982, when I was in 8th grade, and talked about it with a classmate at school the next day who'd also seen it. I then watched it on TV some later in the 1980s, then in the early 1990s taped it on our VCR. It is on my contenders for 100 favorite movies of all time list, and I did not think it was really scary (except for the sewer scene near the beginning), but thought its characterization was very good, its direction and pacing are top notch and run right through to the climax, and thought this climax was very exciting. I also thought the wedding scene at the mansion shortly before that, that set it up, was very good and exciting and suspenseful, and I thought the whole movie made great use of the city of Chicago as its setting. I also though the pool scene was good (though disturbing), but the only times I went in a pool after seeing this movie was for a week in July of 1982, 1983, and 1985 while we were at the beach (our hotel had a pool I swam in some), and I never once thought of this scene while in it those weeks (so it did not effect me in that way). But I also remember this movie, though set mostly in 1980, does open in 1968, and when her father flushes the alligator at the beginning it is in Chicago, and on their TV is coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention, which was held in Chicago that August, and was marred by clashes between the Chicago police department under mayor Richard Daly, and protesters of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. I did hear this clearly in the background of that scene, and it was in fact what drove Lyndon Johnson from office, and why he was not there then to accept renomination for another term. His Vice President, Hubert Humphry, was, though Robert Kennedy would have been had he not been assasinated that June 4 in California, right after winning it. It would have been better for this country if any of these three could have continued on as President, take your pick. But I don't want to turn this into a political debate, it is just that I was born in 1968, and am aware of what happened in it (and do look foward to its 40th anniversary in two years). But the leading lady in this movie was 12 then (when she got the alligator, so she was apparently born in 1956, and would have been 24 during most of this movie (which I did think about when seeing it), Hey, she turns 50 this year!
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