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Well, it's crap, but it's entertaining crap. A lot of people judge this movie very harshly because it was directed by Tobe Hooper and I can't blame them. This isn't a good movie. It's silly, it panders to the teen crowd with awful dialogue and stupid jokes. The crocodile is laughable. Bad CGI. But there a few moments I do enjoy, some nice cinematography and overhead scenes of the lake and forest. And if you're a fan of the campy teen scare scene you'll probably enjoy the beginning at least a bit. Overall I'd say it's very middle of the road.

It's the year 2000, and things haven't been going so well for Tobe Hooper. For, like, fifteen years. So when he gets a chance to do something different, with some actual money behind it (nearly $3 million, apparently), he takes a chance.

Crocodile basically tries to cross-breed Scream with Lake Placid, with decidedly mixed results. I've seen worse animals in various SyFy movies, and Tobe wisely doesn't even try to hide Croc's shortcomings, just letting him all hang out for the most part.

Nope, the main problem is with the Scream teens. Most of them are totally unlikeable, and the ones we're supposed to care about are dry white toast on legs.

However, this is better lensed than most movies of this ilk, and there's enough with, visual and verbal, to make this worth your 90 minutes, if only to see what Hooper was up to during Y2K.

Typical early 00s monster fair. It has the usual annoying characters, and at times cringe CGI, but, is lifted above the usual sci fi channel movie by some good practical croc effects and some semi competent Tobi Hooper directing.

When I saw this on the SciFi Channel, I started to turn it off but then I kept thinking, "This has got to get better." But, no, it kept getting worse. The acting is so awful that it doesn't even play as camp. The teens scream their lines and the older actors (used loosely) are no better. Why, the teens can't even cuss right. Since they are supposed to be from New York City, you would think they could at least do that. Maybe they're Park Avenue teens. They make Joe Namath look good.

What upset me most about this turkey was when I looked up who was responsible for it. Would you believe Tobe Hooper? Has he been smoking wacky weed again! This is a long way down hill from "Poltergeist." And the special effects are an abomination. Some of the cheaper sci-fi flicks of the 50's look like Star Wars compared to this one. Apparently the SciFi Channel edited parts of the film. But I doubt if that makes much difference here. Take my advice and watch an earlier Tobe Hooper creation, such as "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre."

I watched this movie late at night on the Sci-Fi channel, and I was surprised to see who the director was when I looked it up. I couldn't believe that Tobe Hooper directed this. It just doesn't seem like a Tobe Hooper movie when you're watching it. It seems more like a cheap made-for-TV movie, it's pretty bad.

The plot is based around some stupid teenagers camping in a swampy area, and a giant crocodile starts to hunt them down and kill everyone within the area. This is basically a below-average horror movie, a little bit cheesy if you ask me. The CGI effects of the giant crocodile aren't convincing at all, sometimes it's almost laughable. There is a lot of gore, but some of it looks kind of fake if you ask me. The story is pretty far fetched, and the acting wasn't too good either. Not what I expected from Hooper, who brought us "Texas Chainsaw", the best horror movie of all time. Pretty bad in my opinion, but entertaining if you have nothing better to do. 4/10.

It's one of those you have never heard of and decide to check out, then it takes six seconds to realize you hate it. Looked like two-bit Baywatch casting with lots of closeups of made up little faces, then you say adios.

Let me start by saying I have a soft spot for modern B-movie creature-features. They're usually formulaic, but both the creators and the audience are in on the gag, it's played appropriately, and the odd genuine surprise is made sweeter.

Crocodile though takes every element of the formula and strips it of what makes it fun. The script, direction and acting are lacklustre, the effects are sufficiently bad to be plain bad, not funny, any intentional humour was presumably left on the cutting room floor, and any hope that you might care about the fate of even one of the characters is dispelled in the first fifteen minutes.

It was made incredibly cheaply, and despite that has perfectly OK cinematography and lighting (excluding the FX), so it scored some points from me. Unfortunately everything else got a minus number, putting in firmly in the "never again" category.

Sure, I like watching creature features, just a shame that most of these movies usually are gut-awful.

Well, let's just start with the fact that "Crocodile" was directed by Tobe Hooper. How do you go from "Poltergeist" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" to something like this? I am sure it must have sounded alluring in its sales pitch, but come on.

"Crocodile" is a very generic creature feature in every sense of the meaning, for better or worse. It had an adequate storyline actually, but of course you knew exactly what happened way ahead of it actually happening, because the movie was that predictable.

The acting in the movie was adequate, taking into consideration what little the actors and actresses had to work with in terms of script, plot and storyline. Sure, it was overly generic and featureless characters, but that is all an integrated part of the genre.

Now, a creature feature is only as successful as the special effects and CGI. A shame that for the most parts throughout the course of the movie that the crocodile looked like something taken out of a bad PC game from the 1990s. Yeah, it was pretty terrible effects to look at. But on the other hand, some of the practical effects were actually quite good.

"Crocodile" is by no account a milestone in the creature feature genre, nor is it a movie that brought anything new or innovative to the genre. Was it enjoyable? Hardly so. Was it watchable? Certainly, if you can live with the campy nature of the movie and the bad effects.

There are far better crocodile movies out there.

Well... this movie isn't that good on special efx, but its enjoyable for a wile. Sometimes that crocodile looked like a floating board in the water, and is eyes didn't move to visualize its next victim. Except for one scene where the surviving teens are walking on the swamp's forest and the crocodile opens its eyes and observes it's preys. The computer animated crocodile looked silly

Wen the crocodile is on land we only see it's head or it's tail. The acting and diallogue was good so as the story. It has its scares, and you shall like this one if you are a reptile movie lover, so rent it buy it or record it on DVD. If you don't like this one, I have some other crocodile movie titles here: Lake Placid, Blood Surf, Crocodile 2.

My rating 5/10

Alright... let's be honest here... when you come across a movie entitled Crocodile what can you expect at the most... I mean seriously. Your not gonna expect Jaws or any other big budget film... I guess what I'm getting at is that this movie is pretty decent for a low budget B monster movie. I mean the acting is a little below average considering it was most of the casts first movie. The effects are actually somewhat decent for the time, aside for a few shots of an ugly CG crocodile. The story has been done over and over but that's the fun of it, in my opinion, comparing them all together. The gore was decent and it was bloody enough to satisfy me. This movie, honestly, is what you'd expect from a B movie, and you can't really ask for anything more of it... you just can't. But i do believe this was the first to start the whole cheesy B crocodile movie phase but this one actually executed it pretty well. It's entertaining, fun, hilarious, cliché, and cheesy but that's what i look for when watching a film like this. So if you happen to look for the same things I look for one coming upon a film such as this than i recommend it, but if your looking for a Lake Placid then don't watch it.

Eight teenagers go out on a weekend boat trip on a remote lake in Southern California only to have it turn into a nightmare when they are stalked by a very large, monstrous man-eating crocodile after they disturb its nest, and soon they must band together in order to survive from the beast

I love killer Animals movies , this is not that bad at all, I for one think this movie is really good, , it had some good scare scenes, which made me jump.

Acting in this movie was not great but not bad at all, as I have seen much worse.

For me this movie never got boring,as I was really griped into the story!

Very good cheesy /scary Crocodile movie 6/10

No matter what Tobe Hooper comes up with, no matter how bad it might get, I'll always be watching his movies. As far as B-monster-movies go, this is a fun and enjoyable flick. While it certainly isn't an excellent one, there are a lot worse out there. At least it isn't so bad it gets painful. Now I'm not sure that Tobe Hooper directing this flick was a good or a bad thing. On the good side, his directing lifted CROCODILE up one level (but I think his directing is way too good & stylish for this type of movie). On the other hand, I don't think CROCODILE will look good on his resume.

I can, however, understand why Tobe Hooper took the job as a director on this one. It's sort of a teen-slasher-movie with the villain being a killer-crocodile. Those are two elements Hooper has been familiar with throughout his career. But the screenplay is just too stupid, with only one nice part: they actually added a little myth to the crocodile's background-story, instead of it just being there. I also was disappointed about the fact that the run-down mansion in the swamp wasn't used more in the story. I would've loved to have seen a final climax with the crocodile in that creepy mansion. But no, it is only shown in two shots and that's it. So the whole movie takes place in the swamps. The young cast is attractive but forgettable, and I strongly doubt that any of them is going places in Hollywood. But I did enjoy those two dirty redneck-dudes with their alligator-farm. They had some good lines. In fact, the scene where they were talking to the sheriff in their dirty house was the only time the movie reminded me of Hooper's earlier movies. Ah, those days of glory.

As opposed to many viewers, I actually thought the CGI-crocodile was more convincing than the 'animatronics'-puppet they used. The puppet-movement was just too static when it opened its mouth and it sure didn't swim like a crocodile. It looked like they just pulled a big plastic crocodile through the water. Oh, well, the attacks were fairly suspenseful and bloody and the prosthetics were quite good.

So this movie has one part teenager-nonsense and one part crocodile-action. Works for me. And it also has an ending which every animal-rights activist will love to see. In my opinion CROCODILE isn't as good as LAKE PLACID but still better than KROCODYLUS (aka BLOODSURF). The sequel, CROCODILE 2: DEATH SWAMP is just more of the same.

Many people trash "Crocodile" for having terrible effects, terrible acting, etc. I think those people just don't understand this movie. It isn't SUPPOSED to have great effects, great acting, great story, or great anything. This movie is COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS, which is exactly what makes it so fun! Tobe Hooper knew exactly what he was doing with this movie. It's insane, it's stupid, but it's the most fun I've had in a long time.

This movie is very easy to enjoy. Just turn off your brain, toss that useless film school education out the window, and enjoy bad actors being eaten by a bad effect.

A pound doesn't buy a lot these days, so when I saw a brand spanking new copy of Tobe Hooper's Crocodile on DVD for precisely that amount, I figured there must be worse ways to waste a quid and 'snapped' it up.

And while I don't exactly regret buying the film (I am, after all, a total horror addict, and will watch virtually any rubbish in order to satisfy my cravings), on reflection, a pound does seem a little steep.

With its monster-movie-by-numbers plot (killer croc on the loose), one dimensional characters (assorted jocks and bimbos, a tough cop and an experienced hunter), and clichéd delivery, I realise that this film was never intended to be anything other than a bit of low-budget B-movie monster fun, but even with my expectations set low, I found Crocodile to be rather disappointing.

Usually, even when at his most uninspired, Hooper is capable of delivering an occasional moment of dark humour, the odd creepy scene or convincingly nasty bit of gore, but with this lacklustre effort, he merely goes through the motions. The result is an instantly forgettable giant-killer-animal-on-the-loose straight-to-DVD clunker of the type found clogging up the bottom shelves at your local Blockbuster (the kind that sport such inventive titles as Octopus, Python, Spiders, and.... well ...Crocodile, I suppose).

I'm not sure what the budget was on this production, but judging by the effects on display, I'm guessing it was mega-low. The titular monster is portrayed via an unconvincing mix of full-size models and laughable bargain basement CGI, whilst the sparse gore, by the usually reliable KNB FX group, definitely looks like it was knocked up on the cheap. Hell, the budget doesn't even stretch far enough to convince the babes to get their norks out—exactly what kind of B-movie is this, Mr. Hooper? If you can't give us decent gore, at least give us gratuitous nudity.

To be fair, the film doesn't drag, and there is a certain amount of fun to be had from this flick's general cheesiness, but one can't help but wonder how the man who gave the world Leatherface could sink this low.

The last time Hooper dabbled with killer reptiles, he gave us Eaten Alive, which I gave a reasonable 6/10. With this second attempt at a croc-shocker, he gets 3.5 (generously rounded up to 4 for IMDb). If I were Tobe, I wouldn't try again. I'll probably end up having to give a 1... and I really don't want to have to do that!!!

I was expecting little from Crocodile but was hoping I would enjoy it despite its limitations. But I just couldn't. It looks cheap for starters with choppy editing and very fake-looking and poorly-utilised effects. Okay, I knew the effects were not going to be great because of the budget but that is no excuse for the lack of effect, for that was the impression I got. The script is cheesy(the campfire scene) and has no sense of tension or foreboding, the music is over-bearing with little much original or memorable and the story is dull(with the romance subplot further dragging things down) and predictable with the killings undermined by very fake gore. There is some questionable logic and continuity, seeing as crocodiles don't come from America the title should've been Alligator instead, and the crocodile lacks menace and the way it's used is little different from other similar creature movies I've seen. I wouldn't have minded that the characters were clichéd, if they weren't so shallow and annoying, and if most of the actors didn't literally scream their lines all the time. Overall, a terrible movie even with the limitations. 1/10 Bethany Cox

The characters over way too over douchie that you cant help but laugh at this low budget wanna be lake placid film.. the chicks were ok tho.

CROCODILE is very underrated. If you saw this movie and did not like it, you

must have overlooked some details, let me explain:

CROCODILE is a story that demonstrates the following:

1. DETERMINATION: After Flat-Dog (the crocodile) wrecks the teen's boat, they do everything they can to escape the reptile's wrath. Even when the angered

crocodilian kills thier friends, RIGHT BEFORE THIER YOUNG EYES!

2. REVENGE: An old hunter named Shurkin, who lives on an alligator farm with

his weird son has an obsession with Flat-Dog. Many a year ago, the croc had

slaughtered Shurkin's grandfather when he just a boy, which made him mad

enough. After that Flat-Dog got his father, the only thing that truley mattered in Shurkin's life was gone. Ever since then, Shurkin had been living on his father's gator farm, knowing one day, the monstrous Flat-Dog would show her face

again. And when that time came, Shurkin would be ready to even the score!

3. TRAGIC LOSS OF LOVED ONES: The teens lose many of their friends when

Flat-Dog attacks and pursues them, Shurkin also lost his grandfather and father to the animal as well.

4. A MOTHER'S LOVE: Now, this is the movie's number 1 point that everyone

seems to be missing! After 2 idiotic fisherman destroy Flat-Dog's eggs, the

mother croc is enraged and begins to take her anger out on everone she runs

into! When one the foolish teens swipes the already enraged crocodile's final, unsmashed egg, and places it into that girl's backpack, she begins to follow the teens around. Flat-Dog destroys everthing in her path to get her last baby back, just like any mother would do! I still cry evertime the egg hatches into a Flat-Dog Jr. and swims off with big mama. And Flat-Dog is so happy, she spares the

remaining teens a most painful death!

Dear Tobe Hooper, You have made a lot of interesting movies, in particular, the classic TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, but I think CROCODILE is your best

work to date and is VERY underrated!

i was with my brother and stepbrother on a Saturday night and we were looking for movies and i found crocodile so i thought heh could be good so i got it and when i watched it i was freaked the f#$ked out well i was 8 when i watched it but i still like it now first the acting it's okay but could of been better script it's okay as well visual effects awesome deaths even more awesome the thing i wasn't expecting was Tobe hopper directing this let's see what else should i talk about?............................................... nope i got nothing that basically wraps it up in a nutshell you might want to rent it cause the movie isn't that great but if you're sitting with your buddies bored nothing to watch this will sooth your needs other then that just skip it

Ok, where to begin... I watched this movie a couple of weeks go after a fairly interesting documentary about crocodiles, and i assumed that the film they were shownig after, also named Crocodile, which would also be interesting and entertaining.

God I was wrong.

Somehow i managed to watch it to the end, but not without noticing all the bad things about this movie and not being able to find anything good at all.

This film lacked any basic storyline, and had a cast with a braincell between them. It had awful CGI, a crocodile which made the first Jaws look like a living creature and blood which reminded me of ketchup. It tries to incoperate a suspense feeling, but fails. Its plot seems very weak and sketchy and is very very predictable. The characters are morons, they prefer to stand screaming at this twenty foot croc rather than running and lean over the sides of boats to get a glimps of the beast. I felt the characters to be very annoying and it dissapointed me when three of them survived at the end. Also, some charcters seemed to be killed off for no particular reason, and their role in the film seemed pointless (ie Old & Young hillbilly). On another point, that girl with the egg in her bag, wouldn't the croc get her first as she had the egg??? and if their boat sank with all their stuff on it, how did she get her bag off???

Finally, the ending was the worst i've ever seen. They get referring to the creepy abandoned hotel, but they never went to it.

I think, and email me if you agree, a better ending to a crud film would be if the surviving teenagers had sort refuge in the hotel, with the croc following and they then kill it in the hotel where the croc had first come from. Then the hotel collapses/explodes/beams up into space, whatever while the kids watch from a distance. Much better.

So, in conclusion, this movie is very poor, even worse than LOOK WHO'S TALKING NOW. :-(