Alligator (1980)

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91	Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty Clever, funny, and wonderfully bloody.
75	TV Guide Magazine All in all, a fine example of what a sense of humor can do with a low budget and an old idea.
75	The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott It is, to be sure, a Jaws ripoff, but it has enough sidelong wit and head-on scares to guarantee its revival as a classic cult item long after more expensive, ambitious efforts like Altered States have been forgotten. [13 Apr 1981]
70	The New York Times Vincent Canby A very funny meditation on the old ''what happens when you flush the goldfish down the john?'' nightmare. It is also a formula film that simultaneously demonstrates the specific requirements of the formula while sending them up with good humor.
70	Time Out An effective and unpretentious treat.
70	Variety Alligator is bloody and boisterous, featuring the only man-eating monster in memory named Ramone.
70	Newsweek What really puts Alligator above all the other Jaws"ripoffs is its snappy sense of humor. [20 Apr 1981, p.93]
70	Washington Post Gary Arnold Alligator, the most amusing variation yet on the Jaws formula, finds plenty of room for incidental humor and romantic byplay while sustaining a breezy suspense plot. [20 May 1981, p.B1]
60	Empire Kim Newman Enjoyable, but this croc-fest is no Lake Placid.
25	Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert I suggest a plan: Why not try flushing this movie down the toilet to see if it also grows into something big and fearsome?

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