Tremors: Shrieker Island

This is a four, but I'm adding a star for effort. If you watch it with the reasonable expectation of it being from the economy side, it's decently entertaining and goes to places where I didn't expect, comically exaggerated effects that's seem on purpose.

Tourists are hunting super Graboids on a tropical island led by arrogant leader Bill Davidson. Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) is now a retired beachcomber living off the grid. He's out, but Jimmy (Jon Heder) convinces him to get back in.

I like the location. It gives me Jurassic Park vibes with a dose of Survivor. The movie does not always use it correctly. It has moments of good horror, but mostly it looks cheap. The camp isn't much other than Gross. The only interesting character is Gummer. I had hoped for better from Heder, but he has not developed as an actor. The flamethrowers are fun and there are lots of explosions. In the end, this is only occasionally interesting.

The first Tremors movie was a gem. A campy and fun monster movie with quirky characters, I used to watch it every time I saw it on TV and my wife was not around. Just because of that one film I watched all the other... seven are they? Anyway, none was actually worth watching, including this possibly last one. Everything is cardboard and the monsters aren't even scary. One could have created a world terrorized by graboids, expanded it with high budgets and top actors, made it a cinematic universe and cross it over with Underworld, Piranhas, The Meg or even Sharknado. It would have still been stupid, but at least enjoyable. The first Tremors movie was a gem, the rest are the mud.

In a long line of low budget tremors sequels, this was actually not too bad. The acting was decent, good effects, and great grabboid action. RIP to the real one.

^ That pretty much sums up the entire movie. Entertaining and great escapist fun.