Alligator II: The Mutation

Ah, yet another bad movie I caught on the Sci-Fi channel. I have developed a very unhealthy addiction to B-movies lately. I bet every time I watch one of these, it shaves a year off my lifespan. There's nothing of real interest in this one, but after watching it, I started wondering: how come carnivals are always so incredibly evil in movies? Every movie carnival I've ever seen has a spooky Gothic atmosphere, the only ride is a ferris wheel, and all the carnies look and act like Satan's minions. I remember carnivals being FUN when I was a kid, but filmmakers seem to hate them. I'm not sure who or what started this, but I suspect Ray Bradbury has something to do with it. As far as the alligator goes, it is not very scary. The ending sequence, with the heroes trapped in the water with the gator, is rather exciting, but there is not much else. This is obviously a Jaws rip-off, but the truth is, sharks are scarier to watch than alligators and that's all there is to it. 2/10 stars.

source: Alligator II: The Mutation

Words really cannot describe this movie. Wait, yes they can... a big alligator kills people. The Chief of Police dresses like a CBS Sports reporter from the 70's. And Major Heely is the Mayor. What more can you say. Oh yeah, one more thing: this movie sucks.

This movie is pretty bad. It actually kinda weird. The original "Aligator" isn't even that popular of a movie. So who was it that came about and said, "He lets do a sequel". There isn't even any reference (That I heard anyways.) to the original. So couldn't they just call it something different? The plot to this movie is cliché. A monster comes, only one guy knows about it, he tries to tell the other people, but they don't believe him. Then the monster appears and runs amok. Same old, same old. The acting to this movie is BLAND. I mean at least in the first "Alligator" movie the actors were enjoyably corny, but here they are just so boring. The Special effects are horrible. The first Alligator had some pretty good puppets. They weren't great, but they were still alright. Here, most of the scenes with the alligator are just recycled footage form the first movie. Not to mention the fact that the actual size of the alligator radically changes. For most of the movie it's really big, but then in other scenes it's the size of a regular alligator. In the end this movie is worth skipping. I say check out the first alligator and let this movie disappear into obscurity.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT* This gator is a mutating monster. Every scene would have him morph into another size. In some scenes, he was a normal sized gator. Other scenes just showed his head which had inflated into three times its size from the previous scene. His tail went into morphing overload as well as it grew into a gigantic tree branch whenever a human needed to be fly-swatted. So a mighty morphing gator is loose in the sewer. It may mess up some greedy guy's carnival plot to buy land. The cops and gator hunters head into the sewer to do battle against super gator. The greedy guy insists on his carnival continuing no matter what kind of gator trouble is down there. So gator bait shows up to sell their land and the monster wants to crash the party. This was a campy, decent B-movie. When Richard Lynch shows up as the Cajun hunter, the movie comes to life. It had a great ending too. If you can't defeat a gator using wimpy science, there's always the army surplus store.

The first movie of Alligator is very scary. This is scarier. This a very underrated movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. Only some one who does not know a good horror movies when they see it would hate this movie. Any one who likes horror stories should see this movie.

This is not a sequel to the first movie. Well, only in name; but it has no character or storyline connections what so ever. An alligator is killing people and animals in a sewer and surrounding area. Up to the local police force to take him out. Sounds familiar? The story has a slightly more complicated touch this time. Some guy wants to open a theme park near the lake where the alligator was spotted. This means trouble. We soon find out that the guy isn't exactly playing his game by the book... Let's move to the alligator. It looks fake. I haven't seen that many crocodile (or in this case alligator) attack movies, but even I could see that it wasn't a real gator. No CGI either. In the first movie, it was somewhat menacing and threatening, but in this sequel it just doesn't scare enough. The attack scenes are still predictable. They removed the jaws-like tune from the prequel, making it even more dull. The acting is not bad nor good. It works for this type of film. What I don't understand is how the sewers sometimes look like a swamp. Lots of reed and stuff. It's confusing to say the least. Watch this only if you have got nothing better to do. And there is a LOT of stuff that's better then watching this piece of trash. You'd be better of watching the first Alligator again. In conclusion, I give this movie 4 out of 10 stars, and that's probably too nice of me.

Let me state right off the bat to all fans out there that I did not like the original 1980 film "Alligator." As a matter of fact, I did not like it at all. I rarely use this word beginning with an H, but I *hated* the first "Alligator." To some, it's a funny creature feature satire. To me, it was a total bore and that's too bad for me, because I love the creature feature genre and was really looking forward to that film, which has gone on to become sort of a cult classic. Anyway, enough about the first movie. If you want to know why I detested it, see my review for it. We're here to talk about its 1991 sequel unimaginatively titled "Alligator II: The Mutation." And it's even more unimaginative than its already unimaginative predecessor. It's an even more typical sewer alligator picture. Now keep in mind, I have not seen this movie in ages and I have no desire to see it again. What I do remember of "Alligator II" was that it was a complete bore with special effects that were barely more competent than the movie that preceded it by eleven years. The plot was something like "Jaws" set on a lakeside. There's a carnival going on by the shores of some urban body of water. A detective (Joseph Bologna) becomes convinced there's a killer alligator loose in the water, but a greedy businessman is determined to keep the attractions open nonetheless. Anyway, boaters and swimmers decide to go for a dip or ride in the water and are never seen again and then finally... I must stress the word "finally" because "Alligator II" is a really tough film to sit through. It's not particularly gruesome; it's just a complete bore partially because it's so predictable. What also gets a kick out of me is how people panic at this gator because it's moving so slowly through the water when pursuing them. When out of the water and lumbering around, it is more agile and quick. And to conclude just how tasteless and dull this movie is, I reflect upon its ending which is just another rip-off of the hair-raising climax of "Jaws" and just proves just how great that Steven Spielberg picture was. I thought the first "Alligator" was a very bad movie, but it does outshine its sequel.

This is NOT a sequel to ALLIGATOR(1980), but the premise is still the same. A community is terrorized by a giant toxic alligator that crawls out of the sewer. A decent ensemble cast can not save this 'dud'. The 'gator' is just not scary enough and the pace of the story is equal to a bad accident. The diverse cast members are good, but equally bland: Steve Railsback, Joseph Bologna, Dee Wallace Stone, Brock Peters and Bill Daily. Stone is the biggest disappointment. This movie just doesn't get going faster than a slow crawl.

This movie is literally laughably bad. Most of the script is moronically simple, and even then the lines are not delivered as intended (which is quite clear in many instances). The main character is a stereotypical loose cannon, referred to by the towns-folk as "El Solo Lobo"... And it gets better from there. To be perfectly honest, I saw the movie on SciFi while stuck in bed with a fever, and this horrendous piece of work actually made me think I was delusional as well.