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Lake Placid | 
| Director: Steve Miner
Actors: Bridget Fonda, Brendan Gleeson, Mariska Hargitay, Oliver Platt, Bill Pullman
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 51466
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2003774
UPC: 024543037743
EAN: 0024543037743
ASIN: B0006HC014
Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 1999
Release Date: April 23, 2007
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iLake Placid/i is total trash--and, as a result, fairly entertaining. Yet another entry in the horror subgenre of giant animals running amok, ILake Placid/I features a giant crocodile that has somehow found its way to an isolated lake in Maine. The absurdity of crocodiles in Maine sets the tone for the entire movie, which has no ambitions beyond mixing a little fright with a little humor. Bridget Fonda (IPoint of No Return/I, IJackie Brown/I) plays a paleontologist sent to investigate a large tooth; Bill Pullman (IIndependence Day/I, ILost Highway/I) is a fish and game warden just trying to keep the peace; Oliver Platt (IFunny Bones/I, IFlatliners/I) plays a loose-cannon mythology professor who swims with crocodiles for sport; and Brendan Gleeson (an excellent but little-known actor, most noted for IThe General/I) is a local sheriff with a short temper and a big gun. Add a few gruesome dismemberments, Betty White as a cantankerous old broad who may have murdered her husband, and a cow hanging from a helicopter, and there you have it: ILake Placid/I. (Curiously, this concoction was put together by David E. Kelley, better known as the creator of TV's IAlly McBeal/I and IThe Practice/I.) I--Bret Fetzer/I
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 More Funny than Scary June 20, 2004
E. Laway (Temecula, California United States)
I am looking for this movie because I want to buy it for my son who has seen Jaws already for the millionth time and I am afraid he will wear the disc out if I don't get him another comprable movie. This is the movie that I thought of that can match Jaws becuase it's sort of that fun, boo-scare-you, flick. It doesn't take itself seriously and the movie is full of interesting characters played by big name actors. What stood up for me is Betty White. Hands down she is the gem of this movie. It's like she won the funny lines lottery when they handed out the scripts. She plays a Lake resident who's husband is missing and the way she finally tells what happenned to him was so funny I was rolling on the floor. Oliver Platt got annoying, a little bit but thank god Bridget Fonda and Bill Paxton interceded with their likeable characters. I've rented this movie when it first came out on DVD and thought about buying it to include in my slumber party collection and I think this is the way this movie is going to get resurrected, through people who have a enough sense of humour and who knows what an excellent giant animal ran amok movie is all about. Gingerly place this next to your Jaws, Godzillas, Tremors on your DVD shelf, it belongs there.
 Watch It on TV May 30, 2004
pc6 (Durham, NC USA)
Watch this at least once, just to hear Betty white cursing like an old salt. Then watch Hard Rain to see her as a crazy old broad out to kill looters. Then burn both films.brLet's be serious here. The psuedo-religious crocodile worshiping stuff by Oliver Platt was not needed. The idea of a crocodile living as far north as Maine is utterly laughable (damn, if they'd set it in SC or NC, I MIGHT have been able to suspend my disbelief)and the strategies used to catch it are even worse (dangle a live cow from a helicopter anyone?). Have the people involved with this film EVER seen Reptile Wild or any other program on National Geographic?
An Okey film May 11, 2004
J. P. Suhr (Austin, TX United States)
This film was released befor Deep blue sea. Here the sythnesis two crocodile some how never review managed to get into a lake in Main. A gore movie rate r for Bad langue gore violence. Not as good as alligator series but still a good movie.pThe part at the end when the old lad is feeding the adult crocdiles offspring is hilarious. The old Lady delivers soem funy a humerous lines. pIf you like this I recomend Crocodile 1 Crodile 2, Blood Surf, Alligator 1 and Alligaotr 2 the Mutation and Dino Croc
 Betty White Rocks! May 4, 2004
Joshua Koppel (Chicago, IL United States)
A Fish and Game worker is doing a survey of beavers in a placid lake with the local sherrif when he suddenly becomes half the man he was and dies. Local law enforcement, Fish and Game, and a New York museum worker set out to discover what happened. They are soon joined by an eccentric millionaire who loves crocodiles.pIs there a crocodile in the lake? At first few believe that such a thing could be until hard evidence shows up. The Crocodile is not an ordinary one, it is thirty feet in length. The camp is quickly split between those who want to kill it and those who want to save it. To learn it's fate you will have to watch the film.pThis is a very well-done piece of work. The characters are interesting and there is just enough sarcastic humor to really lighten the mood. Betty White plays a foul-mouthed local resident and her delivery of her I'm rooting for the crocodile line is an instant classic. This is a fun film and far from typical. It is not just a giant-lizard-eating-people film. Check it out.
Hmm... March 26, 2004
The story is about a large Asian crocodile that travels across the Atlantic Ocean, and takes up residence in a lake in Maine. An old lady (wonderfully played by Betty White) is feeding the crocodile, as it had become kind of a pet to her and her late husband. Unfortunately, the crocodile isn't satisfied with just eating the cattle that are provided to it. It also doesn't mind snacking on a human or two. And let's face it, if this movie were about an old lady feeding a crocodile, it wouldn't be here, now would it?pAfter a tooth is uncovered, it is sent to a museum to be analyzed. The museum director sends one of his colleagues (Fonda) to the lake to find out what is going on. There she meets the sheriff (Gleeson), the local game warden (Pullman), and arriving shortly thereafter, an eccentric man (Platt) who believes that crocodiles are godly, and enjoys swimming with them.pWhile there are some genuine scary moments in the movie, it tries too hard to be funny as well. If the filmmakers had tried to stick to just one style of movie, either humorous or scary, they would have fared a lot better. Instead of a very good film, what they ended up with is a movie that is trying too hard to be both scary and funny at the same time. While there are a few surprises in this movie (one that took me *completely* off guard), the ending is all too predictable. Some movies can get away with combining the horror aspects and the comedy aspects, like the above mentioned TREMORS. Unfortunately for LAKE PLACID, it couldn't quite pull it off.
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