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I can't say that this film is actually "awful." It's just not very good. There's not as much action as you might expect and the CGI tornadoes are pretty weak. (Everybody stands around in bright sunlight and a little wind comes up. The next thing you know, a tornado funnel that appears to be about 20' across just drops down into the meadow and pulls somebody away...very slowly. There's no sense of collateral damage, ferocious winds, or even darkened skies. No rain, hail, or flying debris. It's sort of a four-year-old's conception of a tornado.)

This would be bad enough, but the "family story" side of it is also pretty maudlin. I don't know who originally broadcast this, but I'm guessing it was the Hallmark Channel. Absolutely no bite to it.

Definitely not worth your time.

As children "Liz McAdams" (Meredith Monroe) and "Ellie Wilson" (Pascale Hutton) are playing outside when a tornado appears. Racing back to their house Ellie watches as her mother is swept up into the cyclone and suffers from guilt and trauma from then on. Many years later Liz has become a meteorologist who has recently separated from her husband "Matt McAdams" (Cameron Bancroft) partly because of the traumatic experience she also lives with since that day. Anyway, as luck would have it, Matt has been working on a project to help predict bad weather systems and because of this he just happens to be in the same area as Liz when another extremely bad storm system appears with the capability of reproducing the same deadly results. Now rather than reveal any more of this film and risk spoiling it for those who haven't seen it I would just like to say that this made-for-television picture uses the same standard recipe as several other movies of this particular genre. That said if anyone is expecting something different or more exciting than previous films of this type then they will probably end up being a bit disappointed. Additionally, there isn't much action and the graphics could have used some improvement as well. To make up for these weaknesses the plot relies upon inter-personal drama and in that regard it managed to maintain my interest for the most part. Of course, others may or may not agree with my assessment and that is perfectly okay. In any case, while it certainly wasn't a great film by any means, I didn't think it was necessarily that bad either and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

I'll give this one a (huh?) out of ten.

In terms of plot, we have another Twister clone, only without the budget, and without the F/X, and apparently without a screenwriter who's seen the last 17 Twister clones already made. Compared to most Lifetime fare, Tornado Valley really doesn't stand out from the pack, good or bad. It's a bland, formulaic, run of the mill childhood tragedy, adult baggage, dysfunctional family flick that keeps Hallmark and Lifetime from being 24 hour infomercial channels.

Now for the good stuff. We have the Storm Protection Center in Norman, Oklahoma (in reality, the Storm Prediction Center in Norman), a name which got some giggles from me. What, they have a national storm shelter in Norman? "Hey, there's a bad storm, let's head up the Storm Protection Center."

Then there's Matilda, a device that looks like a plasma globe from Spencer's Gifts at the mall, which can not only help with predicting when and where tornadoes will, but will also prevent "billions of dollars in collateral damage". Huh? So, I'm to believe that Matilda can teleport crops, forests, and office buildings out of the path of a tornado? Maybe it's the funky patterns in Matilda's plasma globe that will distract the tornado from hitting people and buildings?

Remember to keep an eye out for the eco-nadoes. No trees, grass, or small forest animals were injured in the making of Tornado Valley, because these tornadoes only eat humans, houses, and tractors, refuse to drop any hail or rain, and are only slightly windier than a ceiling fan. Could be Matilda working subtly from the start...

WOW!.. from the get go u will think.... "what the.." then... "get off n run stupid!..." then.. "just grab her little butt n run!!..." THEN......"why the hell am I still watching this?!.." The way the storm came over the trees WITHOUT displacing them in any kind of way is laughable! Maybe this is a comedy... Who knows.

I do know this movie is lame from the beginning. I'd be embarrassed to be associated with this movie. I assume this is a 'foot in the door' for some new young actors to get their face out there or for some desperate actor taking on whatever role they can to grab some money to make ends meet.. Cause DAMN!!! really???!!

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SO boring.. and the effects on the tornadoes are so cheap looking rather watch my lava lamp has more entertainment!

Slow plot with melodramatic off-on-again-maybe estranged couple get buzz of mutual affection after weathering a tornado. The storms were not convincing, and the story was shallow and took forever to move along. I was pleased with the actors and their performances but they didn't have a story to work. I felt like turning this off several times but was watching with a friend who says it was "better than what we were watching before" which was a bad documentary. I think it was supposed to be a twister suspense story but was instead a long winded tale about a vaguely relevant family's story of recovery of trauma from a tornado 25 years earlier. Good color. Poor story. I would not recommend it. You wait until the last minute to find out what disaster might bring, but I felt let down.

So this was basically a cheap version of Twister. It was made for tv and it's nothing spectacular. But it's not so bad. I thought it was a decent 'lifetime' movie. (Don't think it was actually lifetime, but reminded me of those sorts) A one time watch. Yes, the effects were laughable, but the story wasn't bad.

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but not every movie has to have state of the art visual effects for me to enjoy it. So they don't destroy L.A., or the planet, but the characters are well drawn, good acting, and it is an enjoyable film. Want a gory disaster film? Watch something else. Want a nice movie? Watch this.

If you took out the storm aspect of this movie, you'd end up with a pretty good American pastoral family movie. The acting is pretty decent, and the storyline interesting. However, this movie appears to be marketed as a weather thriller, which it is not. The climactic scene takes a total of 5 minutes of the movie.

You may be wondering how I came up with my review summary title "Rub-a-dub-dub two (2) girls in a tub", well if you are curious then you will have to relax and watch the entire film just like I did. Trust me, it will be worth your while and disregard the negative reviews associated with this movie title.

Granted, this is by no means a film classic, nor is it a master disaster film, and the balanced storyline between an imminent disaster (tornado), a lifetime of self blame, and a broken marriage (between Meredith Monroe and Cameron Bancroft) all play a part in this decent drama/thriller.

There was even a very touching scene between the fine performance of actress Rachel Pattee who plays Meredith Monroe's young daughter Becky, and Becky's distraught Aunt Ellie (Played by Pascale Hutton) who is self confined to her farmhouse and left speechless by the family tragedy that occurred 25 years earlier. Becky lovingly is able to reach deep inside her Aunt Ellie's feelings of guilt and fear and draw a simple smile from her Aunt Ellie. It's a touching scene that makes you proud that such a caring neice does exist and we all wish little Becky was our daughter/neice and/or friend.

Regardless of what the other reviewers said, (maybe they get off on wham/bam type of films and their more impressed with overly graphic displays of imitated CGI) I really liked this schmaltzy melodramatic made for TV movie, and the performances by the entire cast were all above par.

I give the film a praiseworthy 7 out of 10 rating. It is well worth watching and look for the two girls in the tub to understand my review summary title.

I am a tornado buff and enjoy a good storm movie. While a bit creaky, "Twister" pulled it off rather well. Sorry to say, this film is not as nearly as entertaining or believable. In fact, it is dangerously close to being absurd in its presentation of tornado activity; the film would have you believe that tornadoes just creep up on you, like wild beasts, out of nowhere. There is almost no tension or anticipation in the movie; the characters all seem to be on some type of mood altering drug. And to add to the torture, it is insultingly manipulative of the audience's emotional response to tragedies caused by such storms, serving up a healthy portion of sloppy mendacity. Stay out of the way of this one.

A few partial nods to twister with story elements. Very cheap and crappy effects twister scenes might account for 5 mins they seem to have spent more money on the command center tech than they did the CGI. Good looking cast decent story line (family drama). I only gave it a 4 for the drama this is not a twister film. You spend more time looking at people looking at monitors and the sky talking about the coming system.

I have seen worse than Twister Valley, but I did think that it was an awful movie with little if anything to redeem it. Visually, once you get past the choppy editing and the dully-lit production values, what really sank Twister Valley were the tornado effects, which are terribly cheap in look and perhaps even the worst tornado effects I've seen. The music fails to give any life or even tension to the film, likewise with the muffled sound effects. Add to that clichéd characters(even for Lifetime), stilted writing and a story that is predictable and maudlin and you have a furthermore bad movie. But the lack of atmosphere, suspense or tension also hindered it, as well as the acting, which is unnatural and not even showing any real sense of fright or any other emotion to what's happening. All in all, awful. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Poorly written, sad special effects, performances are lack luster but I suspect this is due to the terrible material they were working. This movie is just bad. Don't waste your time.

Beside a plot in desperate need of a story, Actors who needed a much better script and lousy special effects that couldn't convince a cow that there was a tornado in the pasture, this film was terrible. Classic Hallmark Channel fare, everyone's in a mess at the beginning then things drag through and hour and a half to end up nice in the end. Tornado Valley leaves you wondering why the heck they even bothered to make this one at all. Very anti-climatic as well. Watch something else, you will be glad you did.

I started to watch but then after the first storm the bad acting and boredom started to rake my body until the agonizing fear hit me saying: "Why are you still watching this crappy movie?" and the next thing I knew my hand grabbed the remote and turned it off. I mean I couldn't even control my own movements. Oofdah! And then it was over and normal took over again.

When I sat down to watch the 2009 movie "Tornado Valley", the movie was titled "Storm in the Heartland" on the copy that I acquired, which was a bit odd. Regardless, I had never heard about the movie and thus opted to watch it, as there is something entertaining about natural disaster movies. However, the vast majority of natural disaster movies are disasters themselves, so I wasn't exactly harboring the biggest of expectations to director Andrew C. Erin's 2009 movie.

And luckily so, because the majority of the movie was essentially just a slow paced dialogue between characters sitting around. And that grew very tedious and very boring very fast. So writers Andrew C. Erin and Aaron Kim Johnston didn't really impress me with this movie. And I have to say that my attention span on the movie was quickly dwindling as the movie trotted on in a very slow and monotonous pace, a pointless pace actually. "Tornado Valley" felt more like a personal drama than a natural disaster movie, and that was definitely not what I was expecting, nor what I sat down to watch.

There were a couple of familiar faces on the cast list, such as Cameron Bancroft and Garry Chalk. I will say, though, that the acting performances in the movie were fair enough, despite the fact that the actors and actresses virtually had next to nothing to work with in terms of script, storyline and character gallery.

Visually then the movie was ok. It was not grand special effects, I will say that much, but I've seen far worse special effects in similar movies. Just don't set your hopes up for any spectacular CGI here.

Semi-watchable for a single time, this movie came and went without much of any slight gust of wind. And it is definitely not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time, nor is it one that I would recommend to fans of the natural disaster movie genre.

My rating of "Tornado Valley" lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

While living on a farm in Minnesota, a tornado forms. Far from the house, sisters Liz and Ellie are exploring, when they see the weather really turning, and decide they have to run, but Ellie realizes she left her toy bear, Mrs. Beasley, behind and absolutely has to go back and get it. Liz tells Ellie to run and she will get it, and as she runs, her mother runs towards her, telling her to run to the house and she will be all right. Well, the tornado gets her mother. Liz manages to hide in a culvert, and Ellie in the bathtub of the home, which is destroyed. So now we are 25 years later, and Liz is a renowned meteorologist and has developed a phased radar system to track storms, and Matt, her separated husband is making it operational. Ellie lives with her father, but has not ventured outside nor said a word since the terrible loss of her mother. This is a TV movie, and it shows, with minimal CGI work on a tornado, which doesn't even look real. And there is plenty of sugar in the movie to satisfy a family sweet tooth, as this is the type of movie shown on the channels showing those movies sponsored by that greeting card company. It is not a terrible movie of its type, just not an action movie that one may think of from the title.

I get the movie is trying to go for, but it doesn't work. The story is more trying to get over a traumatic event that happened in the opening. I get the family drama is going for with one of the sister refused to talk and go outside, but they don't fully explored it throughout. Even the side plot with the storm searchers doesn't go anywhere interesting. Most of these plotlines are rather generic and predictable to guess what happen next and isn't that surprising. Also, there's no emotion to be found in the movie because I already know that every family members is going to survive and there's lack of build up towards itself.

As for the disaster scenes, it's barely there. It only happen at the opening and climax of the movie. There no suspense to be found in them because it happen quickly and there's lack of build up that happen in it. Also, tornado looks pretty bad when you first see it and there's lack of destruction to be found too.

Tornado Valley is a bland movie that focus more on the family drama than the disaster.