Review of Lake Placid 3 (2010) by Robbie H — 22 Jun 2012

Lake Placid 3 is more of the same. Giant, poorly animated cartoon crocodiles chase a bunch of bland, cardboard cut-out characters around, and occasionally eat them. For five seconds, there's an anti-hunting message thrown in for good measure, but the writers quickly forget about it.

Hey, this movie has the kind of lunkheaded script that has characters constantly asking each other "What the hell was that?" after clearly seeing a large, badly animated crocodile wander through the scenery.

It's the sort of lazy product that has a woman's mutilated arm change sides no less than three times in the same scene. For some reason, almost all of the women in the film are ridiculously attractive, which helps distract from the repetitive nature.

I can't decide whether the presence of a fully-nude Roxanne Pallett made the film more tolerable, but it certainly helped me enjoy things more (ditto Kacey Barnfield). Still, naked breasts aside, this is a really, really bad movie.

The only thing, besides Miss Pallett's "presence", saving the movie from being completely intolerable is the hysterical presence of Yancy Butler, who seems to be doing a bizarre impression of Charlton Heston, Lee Marvin, George C.

Scott, and Phyllis Diller all rolled into one. For the most part, the movie is boring as shit and repetitively dull, but whenever Butler appears to spout out "funny" lines, swear, and snarl at everybody, I couldn't help but laugh-she turns in the kind of performance that belongs in movies like Lake Placid 3; an amusingly bad one.

Unfortunately, these moronic films can't seem to decide on a tone, so we're stuck with a bizarre, poorly-acted wannabe horror film with underdeveloped characters, crappy gore, and some of the worst special effects this side of Terra Nova.

A little nudity and a bizarrely funny performance from Butler makes this more tolerable than the previous two trips to Lake Placid, but that's damning with faint praise.