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I was not expecting to even like Frankenfish, but I did. The story is ridiculous on the whole, in the script there is a sea of corniness and eye-rolling cheesiness amid the odd sprinkle of wit, the characters are on the annoying stereotypical side and some of the effects are cheap. Despite all this, I did enjoy Frankenfish. The editing was not as choppy as I had anticipated and some of the locations are great. There is enough suspense and tense fun to make up for the ridiculousness of the story, the fish although not great in design(though I have seen far worse) are menacing and great to watch and while the lead is uncharismatic the acting is reasonably good. On the whole, not great, but I sort of liked it. 6/10 Bethany Cox

This reminded me of two movies: "Tremors" and "Anaconda," but this film was a Class B version and cross between those two "higher class" movies. This film had no known actors - and it showed - and the dialog was pretty stupid, too (not that it was intelligent in those other films.)

However, I have to admit the killer fish were cool. The special-effects on them were very good. These suckers were ugly, scary and life-like. Since most of the humans in this film were unappealing to me, I rooted for the fish. There were several of them, pretty good-sized and pretty tough to stop.

This also was like those sci-fi films of the '50s with the genetically-altered spiders or ants or whatever, making something many times larger and deadly. Here, it was some fish in the Bayou swamps. Some of the action scenes were shocking and were, frankly, the best part of the film. Don't expect much for the first 35 minutes, but once it kicks in, it gets pretty intense.

The language is profane; the people (except for the hero, of course) are pretty scuzzy and stupid. Recommended for those who want to be frightened for an hour and aren't discriminating about the quality of their film-watching!

To my surprise, this actually turned out to be a rather amusing B-Movie. The characters, handsome cop, brainy female scientist, unpleasant young lawyer, taciturn Vietnam vet (how many Vietnam vets in the movies are ever eloquent conversationalists?) and superstitious Voodoo lady are so much cut-out cardboard, but the actors make the best with what they have to work with. Even the fish look like they are enjoying themselves.

There is the odd witty line, some great low-key action sequences and the Frankenfish themselves are great - chewing up most of the cast with great gusto and not without some excellent black humour.

There are some genuine surprises and a couple of unexpected deaths amid the usual B-Movie clichés. There's plenty of gore and plenty of fun. Not a bad way to spend an idle hour or so.

A man gets eaten in the swamps, so the government sends in a cop and a medical examiner. They find a group of people with eclectic qualities, and one of the meanest and biggest fish ever to try and eat a human being. (This review should have a "Jaws" reference, but it won't... I'm not even going to write "they're going to need a bigger boat".)

Despite this film being incredibly cheesy (and this cheesiness leading to my lower rating), it was also really fun in the sense of a 1950s b-movie where things always had to be bigger. Backwoods swamp people are fun, as are hippie Rastafarians. And then we have Chinese mafia people working for a big game hunter who have women at his beck and call. It's really silly if you think about it (so just don't).

Some great effects are in this movie, as well as some really awful ones. The bad ones pretty much revolve around the CGI of the fish... although I still appreciate blood and guts in any form. The best effect for me was a shotgun blast scene (I won't say who gets it) that literally made me jump from my love seat and cheer. Yeah, maybe I'm deranged. You'd be deranged, too, if your idea of a good time was staying up all night watching "Frankenfish" and "The XXXorcist".

I also wanted to say that this film stood out in my mind as a film with a strong black lead. Aside from Ken Foree and maybe Tony Todd, horror has a long history of marginalizing black characters and often kills them off as soon as possible. But this film places a black man as the hero, without using his "blackness" as any kind of joke. (It's actually sad I feel the need to point such things as this out, but horror films are one of the last genres to enter the modern world.)

Anyway, you're going to find cheesy effects and cheesy acting if you watch this movie. The plot is also strange (the connection between the mafia and the fish is really strained). But I honestly liked it, so maybe this will appeal to you if you like those sorts of films... think "Eight-Legged Freaks", but without David Arquette.

As a follow-up to the first film I saw with snakeheads, this one raises the bar, but still not high enough to limbo under. The action is quick, however, and that's good so there's never an extreme lull.

Some of the characters seem to die just for shock value, which works, but beware not to invest value in too many or develop a favorite...it's anyone's food for fish in this TV movie.

I watched this on a Saturday night when I had nothing to do and it was definitely entertaining. If you're looking for Masterpiece Theatre, look somewhere else. If you're looking for a good popcorn movie to watch with friends and enjoy some decent CG, Frankenfish just might be the right movie for you.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the...swamp? Enjoy!

Look at the title of the film and nothing good can come of this. Who came up with this name? He should be fired.

The writers have studied Jaws and tried to make an own version it seems. Big Chinese fish are the stars this time. It is just a shame that the writers didn't try to take the film as the name. Not serious I mean.

The actors do a miserable job (with miserable lines I must say), the environment is not convincing and the fish are a joke. I looks like a crossing between Jaws and Tremors sometimes. It just isn't good enough and too cliché to pass on for a good film. The ending is just terrible and it is clear that this is just a B-film. Too bad the writers and director didn't put in something of their own. Then you could laugh en enjoy the stupidity and it would be more original. Now it is somewhat stupid. This is one of those movies you watch with your friends while having a beer night and irritate and laugh a bit on the film. Although I wanted to see how it ended, so they did something right. I give it 4 stars.

Take one part Jaws, one part Tremors and a hint of Creature From the Black Lagoon, mix well, and you get Frankenfish. Yes it's filled with stock characters (though its nice to have an African-American hero for a change) and some foolish plot twists, but, I liked it.

Why? Well, the characters were basically likable and well-acted by a largely unknown cast. Second, the story moves along at a good clip which is always important when the plot is clichéd. Third, the Frankenfish were terrific, big and scary. And, of course, there was plenty of blood and guts; surprising since the Sci-Fi channel usually edits this out.

Don't go in expecting too much, just your typical large, voracious monster on the loose and you should enjoy this one.

FRANKENFISH is one of those lovely B-films you always walk by at your local video store and laugh as you point out the cover to your friends. This film is so funny I can't even begin to explain it. From the ridiculous and unexplained plot, to the over-the-top, undefined characters, this film is a riot. You know you have a great film when there are giant, mutant fish beasts, naked people, house boat tailer parks, turtle soup, biologists, lesbians, Chinese Mofia, bloody gore, propeller boats, shotguns, and lines like, "I'm gonna git you, you dumb motherf*cker!" At a breezy 80 minutes in length, this film will have you crying for the must anticipated sequel. If you love B-Films that are truly ridiculous than this is the film for you.

Deep in the bayous of Louisiana, something is munching on the inhabitants of a small community of houseboats. A coroner and a biologist are sent to investigate, and discover that huge genetically engineered man-eating fish are responsible. Specially designed to be tracked by big-game hunters seeking the ultimate quarry, the fish are fast, vicious and intelligent. When the scaly terrors attack the boats and scupper the floating houses, the survivors think they are fish food; but help is at hand when the hunters arrive, armed to the teeth and hoping to bag a trophy or two...

Had the makers of Frankenfish planted their tongues much further into their cheeks and not taken proceedings quite so seriously, this movie may have been a fantastic addition to the monster genre; unfortunately, they refuse to accept the complete preposterousness of the premise and deliver an average movie when the result should have been so much more fun. It doesn't help that the fish themselves are, for the most part, badly rendered CGI. Loads of nifty gore and a few tasty babes (China Chow and K.D. Aubert provide the main eye candy for the blokes) help to compensate somewhat, but Frankenfish ultimately fails to match the genius of its wonderfully camp title.

I give this film 5 out of 10, plus a bonus point for the impressive amount of blood and guts on display.

Not that I'm complaining or anything, but...shouldn't have been a movie like this even cheesier? Sleazier? Trashier? With a title like "Frankenfish" and a striking DVD-cover that proudly shows a monstrous cross-breeding between a catfish and a piranha, the least I expected was a more over-the-top and completely absurd homage to old B-movies and/or low budget creature features. "Frankenfish" attempts and, admittedly, often succeeds in being a fun and vastly entertaining little flick, but still the production takes itself slightly too serious and should gave gone straight for pure shlock! The film is gory...but not gory enough! Some of the characters are quite insane...but not insane enough! One or two female stars appear naked...but not... You get the picture. The opening sequence is truly promising and bathes in the same atmosphere as all those deliciously awful monster-movies of the 80's. A lonely fisherman living in the swamps of Louisiana is devoured by some kind of new water monster and, by the time local authorities discover his body, there's not much left but a rotting torso. An expedition of two (only two?) specialists is sent to the small swamp-community where they quickly witness more and even bloodier attacks by immense fish that appear to be genetically altered snakeheads. The aggressive and extremely hungry creatures are owned by an eccentric hunting-freak who was looking for a new challenge. Don't you hate it when that happens? The most obvious mistake the producers of "Frankenfish" made was to opt for lame CGI-effects. The teenage audiences that fancy this type of hi-tech computer tricks don't care for small films like this. They go straight for over-hyped video game nonsense like "The House of the Dead" or "Resident Evil" and always ignore the lowest shelves in videostores, where modest releases like "Frankenfish" are usually put. The more experienced horror fans that are looking for possible new B-classics wish to see old-fashioned and cheesy effects and make-up art! Apart from that and some other minor stupidities in the script, "Frankenfish" is a fairly exciting film with a good pace and likable characters. The death sequences are probably the best moments, as they offer quite a bit of ingenious variety. People get decapitated, dismembered, half-eaten cut up by fanning boats. The absolute coolest death scene doesn't even involve the over-sized fish and shows a poor (lesbian?) woman being shot in the head by an unmanned shotgun! That was just too funny. I guess they simply don't make 'em a terrific like "Tremors" anymore, but if this movie represents the next generation of creature-features, I'm more or less satisfied

Something big and nasty is hanging out in the Bayou, so baaad it can bite a gator to pieces. Could it possibly be a scientific experiment gone awry? Might it possibly threaten a group of people trapped in the middle of nowhere? Is it conceivable that the above group would be offed one by one? In various bloody circumstances? Would you believe the hero and his babe will somehow survive? Is there any way a rich evil middle-aged white male might be responsible? Is there anything in this movie you haven't seen before? the fish are pretty well done, but too high a body count (and too much foul language) for me. Think of Deep Rising with a smaller budget. If you like that sort of thing--enjoy.

This movie isn't as bad as you'd think it would be, going by the title.

Maybe that was the intention. Hit the audience with a really bad title and then when the movie isn't as schlocky as the title suggests, people will be duped into thinking the movie isn't all that bad. But, just because it's not as bad as the title, doesn't mean it's good.

This movie belongs in a Bad Bayou Movie Double Feature with Tobe Hooper's "Crocodile". The DVD cover boasted "From the director of Spawn!" Now, is that supposed to be a good thing? There's a reason Mark Dippe was in director jail, and he has committed another film crime with this turkey. With any luck, this is a violation of parole, and will put him back inside.

I first saw this years back on Sony Pix tv channel. Revisited it recently. I like horror n action films set in the bayou n swamps, especially Lousiana.

This is not bad for a tv movie. It has plenty of gore n kills. Simon Barrett is the writer of this film n this film n Dead Birds were his initial foray into horror films. Later he wrote many horror films. But as the poster claims, from the director (Mark A.Z. Dippé) of Spawn. Well, Spawn is his only good effort before this n after Frakenfish he went downhill. But his experience in special effects is noteworthy n this film does boast of some cool effects.

Also the poster is a rip off of Anaconda n whatever has been shown on the poster of this film, nothing like that happens in the entire film. In fact the lead actor never removes his shirt.

The film is about a genetically enhanced snakehead fish. Basically a voracious fishzilla trying to topple the croc, alligator, shark n piranha genre films. There is scene where a *ucktard stands so close to an edge knowing that there is an aquatic predator lurking in the water. We have a bad ass Ricardo, a war veteran who manages to get the the giant fish outside water so that viewers may have a glimpse of it.

It has some tits, especially that of the hottie Noelle Evans (Elizabeth Shue lookalike). I think she retired. Checked her Instagram n found her to be happily married, enjoying her bike riding.

The only actors recognizable r Tomas Arana Mark Boone Jr.

If have seen the movie, with some friends of mine. One of them actually fell asleep during the movie. And actually I don't know why i finished the movie. But I am not all negative about the movie, the scenes when the fish came out of the water where good. The special effects where very good. The scenes where the characters dies are also very nice and gore to watch. But if I may have one other negative point, it was the ending, so lame. I don't hope that the makers will make a Frankenfish 2.

So overall I will give the movie a 2.2 It's nice to watch the movie with a lot of beer

Nice gory movie definitely not for the squeamish. The title of the movie, 'Frankenfish' was actually an attraction to me. I think the title is kind of neat although it is a bit misleading. The fish is genetically altered and bred into this monster fish. Unlike Frankenstein, the monster fish is not put together by stitching up fish body parts. This film reminds me a lot of the slasher films where people get picked off one by one in different ways. Then there's always a few twists and turns. Lots of blood and gore. The acting was OK, nothing special. The scenes with the so called 'Frankenfish' were pretty good and exciting. The movie moves right along and there is a lot of suspense. All in all, it was an OK movie. I'm glad I watched it but wouldn't watch it a second time.

What's up with all these good reviews of this piece of crap? This has got to be one of the five worst movies I've seen this year, and I've seen about 100 already.

I only watched this film because it had Richard Edson, Raoul Trujillo and Mark Boone Jr. in it, and they all had very small roles, which mostly were all wasted, except Trujillo, who I thought was the best character in the whole damn movie.

It was funny how the lead character tried to put on a 'Denzel Washington-face' sometimes, but mostly he just disappeared from my mind as being the 'hero', since he didn't really do anything memorable other than shoot a little bit at the CGI-fish, which bled CGI-blood when hit. And the ending? I just hated it, nothing good about it.

A couple of few good scenes with gore saves this from being a total turkey, but otherwise stay clear of this Computer Generated bore-fest. To sum up this movie: A big waste of time, money, and good actors.

To fully appreciate this film, you are going to need to think outside the Hollywood box, anticipate the horrible acting, and prepare yourself for some creative CGI because this isn't your typical horror film. This is a amazing family dynamic picture under the rouse of a "B" rated cheese film. Think about it. Throughout the film we are being bombarded with thoughts and hints of trying to build a family structure during this time of disaster. Our human heroes are consistently trying to get with each other to perhaps build a long relationship. There are the nudists that already have that family dynamic, there is the revenge bent friend that wants to kill Frankenfish because he ruined his family, then there is the voodoo woman trying to use potions to make her daughter fall in love with the cop that loves to rumble with frankenfish. We have all of these family motives staring us in the face, but then we have a subliminal one happening as well. Not to exploit the ending for those that haven't seen this fine film yet, but we need to think of the Frankenfish as more than just aquatic demons. In the story of Frankenstein, Shelly means for us to see the beast as more than just a monster, but instead a human trying to enter a cruel society. Perhaps these same themes were to be implied with Frankenfish. Perhaps the fish were not killing the humans, but trying to fit into the other fish society. Think about it. Here we have humans killing fish for their pleasure, I am sure that the fish in the bayou are not happy about that, so whom do they ask to help … the frankenfish. They are just trying to raise a family, survive in a humanistic society, and also be accepted into their own fish society underwater. These are very complex fish and I think also very misunderstood in this film.

Outside of this deeply rooted theme, the film itself is not as shabby as I thought it would be. The story is jumbly, the acting is atrocious, and the only enjoyable moment that this film has going for it are the frankenfish themselves (where apparently a huge portion of the budget went to create them). Yet, I wasn't expecting a high caliber of film here, I was expecting Muppets or puppets instead of the CGI created fish that honestly brought some horror to the screen. They were spooky, and semi-humorous at the same time. They reminded me of older horror films and the carnage that our forefathers of horror used to bring to us. There was just something genuine about these creatures that propelled (HA … pun there) this film into a much better category than I first anticipated. Then, there was the actual fear factor. While I wasn't frightened of this film, my wife had a field day. Everyday I learn something new about her, and this time it was the fact that she takes some small pleasure in watching these "B" horror films. She was a huge fan of Boa vs. Python, which fits right into this same category. There is something spectacular about a film that gives you what you went in hoping for. If you are expecting gruesome deaths, some nudity, and fantasy action, then you will not walk away from Frankenfish unhappy.

Is it bad to have such a low expectation of a film when first walking into it? I don't think so. I mean, honestly, unless you read Fangora or Film Fanatic magazine, you may not discover these "under the radar" films that may surprise you. Working in a video store, I walked by this title at least a thousand times thinking how bad it must be because nobody is renting it, when in fact, when I decided to break the mold and experience it, I was impressed. Low expectations of the film caused a positive reaction.

Overall, was this film great? Nope. Was it good? I would have to raise my hand, probably in some embarrassing situation, and say "yes". Frankenfish provided two hours of very decent entertainment and created this new monster for generations to enjoy. It followed a simple Hollywood structure, but somehow bent it to create its own sensation. The fish were frightening, while the ending provided a decent open-door policy for a sequel. Will the sequel be as good? No, I don't think so, but for those looking for some decent action, a passive story, and some Frankenfish (sans the bolts and lightening), then you may be pleasantly surprised by this little ditty of a film. I know my wife and I were!!

Grade: **** out of *****