DinoCroc (2004)

Imagine all the fury of a prehistoric carnivore combined with the ferocity of the largest crocodile known to man and you have the makings of nonstop terror. Run for your life as Gereco Corporation's experiment to manipulate a rapid-growth hormone gets out of control, and a ravenous monster gets out of its cage. Now the residents of the once-peaceful Grant's Lake have only the talents of a crude Australian reptile hunter, the short-handed local sheriff, his daughter the animal control expert, and her boyfriend, to save them from the insatiable jaws of a beastly feeding frenzy

Bad

Why such films like this get good reviews is beyond me. The story is sooooo boring and the"DinoCroc" looks like a dinosaur made with 90's CG technology.

A Lab in a local Town develops a Giant Crocidile, why they and i have no idea. It gets lose and begins to eat people and the local nut decides to stop it while trying to prove it exists to the sheriff.

I baught the movie for $19.99 when it came out and i was greatly diappointed. Roger Corman is famous because he's a genious? Yeah right and im am Tom Cruise. June 2, 2008

Pretty Good

I watched this movie on the SciFi channel. I guess it got the 'R' rating because of some bad language which they bleep out on tv.

It's pretty good I thought to watch on a Saturday afternoon. I sometimes watch those movies on the SciFi channel for something different. I actually like relating to the characters as much as the monsters.

The main character is really cute. She's the sherrif's daughter and runs the local SPCA.

There's the no nonsense sheriff. The croc hating hunter from Australia. The hapless boyfriend who can't do anything right but turns out to the hero.

My favorite character is Dr. Campbell. As often happens with mad scientists he eventually becomes the victim of his own creation.

This movie is interesting for me because there really were prehistoric crocodiles which were much larger than the ones we have today.

Just as crocodiles wait by the side of the river and grab deer today so those ancient crocs grabbed other dinosaurs.

Jeff Marzano

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Hammerhead
January 19, 2008

Highly entertaining

No, this movie isn't 'so bad its good' or anyything stupid like that, it's genuinely entertaining.

I can think of at least three things that ended up being funny, but that, if real people were in a similar situation, probably would happen, such as the guy who acidentally pricks himself with a tranquiliser while being attacked, which is realisic considering he's panicking and his hand is in a box of tranquiliser darts.

Thankfully, aside from the horribly overused 'get out of the water!' line, the movie avoids any clichés, unless you count a character who acts surprisingly like Steve Irwin, which I doubt counts as a cliché since Steve Irwin actually is a real guy, although it's strange that so many australian characters in monster movies act like him. I guess this is going to be the last time for a while though, because it's going to be something of a taboo for a long time.

While CGI creatures in monster movies have always had some amount of cuteness, from the Jurassic Park movies, where the 'cuteness' was accidental and a result of the CGI creatures being extremely stupid-looking, to more recent movies, where it seems to be intentional, the title creature is possibly the cutest CGI movie monster. I know a fifty-foot crocodile that swallows people who shouldn't be able to be cute, but it is. I guess this is another sign of how anime and tokusatsu have influenced western culture over the last decade or so. December 29, 2006

More Croc Than You Can Shake A Stick At

"The Jeff Foxworthy Show" is responsible for a number of careers, namely those of Haley Joel Osment, Jonathan Lipnicki, Bill Engvall, and, perhaps the biggest star of them all, Matt Borlenghi. Yes, you know him, star of stage and screen, and obviously fond of monster crocodiles, being that "DinoCroc" is his second foray into crocdom. His other "croc" film was "Blood Surf," which is actually a very funny B-flick.

This time around, Borlenghi actually gives it a really good ol' college try as Tom, resident of a sleepy little town with a huge reservoir and a slimy corporate science firm, Gereco Laboratories. It's Gereco who's responsible for unleashing the dinocroc on the innocent people of Tom's tiny town. They also attempt to cover up the death and destruction that the local sheriff (the underused Charles Napier) and his dogcatcher daughter are trying to make sense of.

Gereco is headed up by the sinisterly sexy Joanna Pacula, who sends out well-meaning Dr. Campbell to capture the escaped beast. You may recognize Campbell (Bruce Weitz) from his days as the lovable little "Animal" from "Hill Street Blues." He fails in his initial attempt to snag the beast, so in comes Dick(Costas Mandylor). Think of Mandylor as the real "Crocodile Hunter," Steve Irwin if Irwin were a tad bit of a bumhole who doesn't follow-up too well on his croc captures. You'll understand what I mean if you watch the whole flick.

As the movie rolls along at a decent pace, we are introduced to three-legged Lucky, the wonder mutt, and Tom's little brother (Jake Thomas), who also happens to be Hilary Duff's little brother from "Lizzie Maguire." *Spoiler* He has quite an intense run-in with the croc, leading lovers of Lizzie's lil' bro weeping in the aisles.

As a whole, this flick is pretty good. The croc doesn't look too bad, though he seems to be standing under a spotlight every time he runs through the dark trees. I'll agree with other reviewers that this film's ending is somewhat silly, but the rest of the film is just so doggone fun that I'll let the conclusion slide.

If you enjoy creature features, "DinoCroc" will suffice. It's not on the same level as "Anaconda" or "Lake Placid," and it's nowhere near "Jurassic Park," but "DinoCroc" will pass away a sleepy Sunday afternoon quite easily, and you won't feel completely cheated of your time. May 21, 2006

The Croc is great....the rest .........humbug

Here we have a pretty good monster story that eventually gets
bogged down by too much character devellopment that we dont care
for, stupid script writting, stupid descisions done in the movie. Without giving too much info,,,here's a example...the
monster gets killed...yippee, everybody turns around and leaves without checking closesly that yes....its dead.
Anyway, im glad Roger Corman stills got his hands in movies, but he should stick to monsters and leave the dramas to others.
February 23, 2006

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