Supergator

Girls in tiny bikinis and tight tank tops and cutoffs are what keeps SUPERGATOR halfway interesting. The gator, a mutant created from the DNA of a prehistoric creature, isn't half bad looking, either. The problem is, you have a bunch of actors (some of them clearly extras) running around, trying to escape a CGI creation that clearly is not there. Closeups of its (fiber glass) jaws chomping on cast members, with a lot of fake-looking blood flowing, doesn't really help. Anyhow, an aging Brad Johnson, who has appeared in far worse than this, plays a geologist checking out a volcano with the help of several folks, including a former student who is not much on acting but easy on the eyes. She spends a lot of time huddled in Johnson's massive arms. Meanwhile, a woman scientist and a great white hunter are out searching for the gator, which has escaped her lab. The two groups collide, and the gator has plenty to chow down on before heading for town. In the sames stretch of woods are two bikini-clad babes being photographed for a magazine, three young males who are busy getting blitzed and a pair of barely-clad female hikers who are frequently filmed from behind. I kept expecting one or more of the gals to take her top off or have sex or something, but nothing like this happens. On the other hand, the two bikini-clad babes do a lot of jumping up and down and running. At one point, one of them hides from the gator under a fallen tree and poses as if she were still being shot for a magazine cover. Believe me, I am not complaining. The film falls apart once the gator hits town, arriving right in the middle of a celebration that Johnson has tried to convince town officials to call off (sound familiar?) The body count is awesome but not very well done. See it for the babes and the nasty-looking gator.

I wasn't expecting much from Supergator, and at the end of the day it was neither better or worse than I was expecting, not quite good enough to be one of SyFy's more tolerable efforts and not quite bad enough to be among their worst. I did like the Jaws homages and a couple of the gruesome deaths were reasonably fun. However, Supergator does suffer from a number of assets that make even the worst of SyFy's output intolerably bad. It is cheap visually, with choppy editing and laughably fake effects. The script, especially the one-liners, is incredibly cheesy, sometimes amusingly but often after like the tenth cheesy line I got irritated, the story is so thin you wonder whether there is one at all and is predictable, ridiculous and has holes so big and so vast it was like trying to drive a truck along a road full of them and the characters are stereotypical of the usual SyFy creature movie clichés and superfluously developed. I've seen worse acting before, but it is still really atrocious, with everybody looking uncharismatic and stiff throughout. All in all, not the worst SyFy movie I've seen but still cheap and idiotic. 3/10 Bethany Cox

There is just something alluring about these creature features, where you sit and watch gargantuan sized creature waddle about and killing people. However, most of these movies tend to be rather bad. And "Supergator" was one of those movies.

First of all there was absolutely no coherent history to the story that would make it plausible in any way. It was all just too random, and mostly appeared to be made up along the way according to what whimsical thought and idea director Brian Clyde had in that exact moment.

Secondly, a creature feature needs to have proper special effects and CGI effects. "Supergator" couldn't boast with that accomplishment. No Sir, not one bit. Everything here was just laughable and really poorly animated at best. The creature, supergator or whatever we should call it, looked like something taken out from the early days of the Amiga 500 computer. It was laughable, fake and so poorly animated that you didn't buy into it for a second.

The acting in the movie was sort of adequate enough, taking into consideration the nature of the movie, and also taking into consideration the severe limitations inflicted on the acting talents in terms of script, dialogue and lack of story.

Furthermore, the sounds of the nature in this movie, such as rushing water, a waterfall, etc. was just seriously too loud. It overshadowed everything else, and actually drowned out a lot of dialogue. But hey, given the dialogue level of the movie, I guess that was actually not such a bad thing after all.

I enjoy creature features, but found nothing, absolutely nothing enjoyable in "Supergator". So take heed, and stay well clear of this 2007 movie. It's feeble bite will not even leave a dent on your skin.

"Supergator" scores a mere two out of ten stars here, and even then I am feeling kind of generous.

After taking some DNA from a fossil of a Phobosuchus and combining it with DNA from a modern alligator the newly recreated "supergator" manages to escape and sets up its home on one of the Hawaiian Islands. A hunter is hired to capture or kill it but in the meantime innocent civilians just happen to be in the same area and they become its next meal in the process. So much for the format which is pretty standard stuff for this particular sub-genre. Also quite standard were the performances of the main actors as well. Fortunately, there were a number of attractive young ladies featured with Mary Alexander Stiefvater (as "Alexandra Stevens") and Holly Weber (as "Lorissa") being the most prominent. However, what was rather substandard about this movie was the animation and special effects which weren't nearly as good as they should have been. That detail-more than anything else-really hampered the overall quality of the film. In any case, those who really enjoy this particular sort of picture might be interested in watching this film but everyone else should probably just avoid it as it certainly isn't one of the better movies of this type. Other than the young ladies mentioned earlier there really isn't much to see. Accordingly, I rate it as below average.

In Hawaii, volcanologist Brad Johnson (as Scott Kinney) and young assistant Josh Kelly (as Ryan Houston) arrive to investigate a possible volcano eruption. Meanwhile, a prehistoric-looking alligator appears to be running amok, eating people. The titular "Supergator" attracts veteran alligator geneticist Kelly McGillis (as Kimberly "Kim" Taft). Acting (or not) as backup are reporter Bianca Lawson (as Carla Masters) and resident assistant Mary Alexander Stiefvater (as Alexandra Stevens)...

These "Syfy Channel" and video premiering monster movies are generally mediocre, but a few are above average and even more can be fun to watch. Not this time. "Supergator" is sloppy and substandard, even for its genre. It's possible the already low budget was cut during production as several of the early to mid-film special effects are almost non-existent; they consist of extreme, indistinguishable close-ups. In a pink bikini, Holly Weber is most arousing. We see more of the alligator, later.

** Supergator (7/14/07) Brian Clyde ~ Brad Johnson, Bianca Lawson, Kelly McGillis, Holly Weber