Review of Mega Snake (2007) by Jason D — 23 Jan 2010
In Mega Snake, deep in the heart of Europe...um...I mean random American hillbilly territory, a family of religious snake handlers live (and die) by the snake, save for son Michael Shanks (of Stargate fame) who watched his father get killed by a snake at church.
Now, as an EMT, he tends to avoid them, but not good old brother Duff (John T. Woods), who gets his snakes from the local Native Tattoo artist. On one particular visit, Duff steals a tiny snake said to be very rare and deadly towards people.
After being given a set of Gremlins-esque rules, Duff proceeds to break them all, and with everything that snake eats, the larger it grows until it becomes Mega Snake. Can Shanks get over his fear of snakes and conquer Mega Snake before it eats all the European actors.
...um...I mean American, English-speaking (not dubbed at all. Oh no sir!) actors. Directed by Tibor Takacs (The Gate films), I expected Mega Snake to be the fun, campy schlocky nature run-amok film I thought I was getting myself into, but Mega Snake wound up being Mega Suck.
The movie has some engaging moments, and even a couple of great unintentional laughs, but it's hard for me to appreciate a film that cannot do a better job of convincing me it's not being made deep in Europe with a foreign cast and crew trying to play it off like it's all made in America.
Gosh, I know that sounds moronically conservative, but it genuinely threw me off. While this film sports a quasi-big Stargate character, as well as rising genre actor Todd Jenson (Wrong Turn 3, Train, It's Alive remake), I'm guessing one of the bigger marquee names was the appearance of Matthew Atherton.
Atherton is best known as a contestant on the dreadful Who Wants to be a Superhero, where his superhero name was Feedback. It is with great disappointment that I inform you that Feedback does NOT get taken down by Mega Snake (which would have caused for higher marks on the film's rating), but in fact, Feedback does get to be a small hero in the film.
Bleh.
This review of Mega Snake (2007) was written by Jason D on 23 Jan 2010.
Mega Snake has generally received negative reviews.
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