LAKE PLACID 3 (2010)
I'm feeling trapped by this particular theme month. It's like wanting to play outside with your friends when you're stuck inside because of a downpour. As much as I would enjoy writing about aliens or...well, anything else, I'm stuck with reptiles for the time being. More precisely, I'm stuck with gators. Crocodiles? I don't actually know which creature populates Lake Placid 3. All I know is that I haven't seen Lake Placid 2. I hadn't even spent time with the original until earlier this year. It was a pleasant surprise. Why did I skip a sequel? Look, you should be used to my questionable tastes by now. Do I know why I popped in Lake Placid 3 yesterday afternoon? No, not entirely. It worked out in the end, as this flick achieves quite a bit with very little ammunition (read: funding) in its firing chamber. Let me get the negative stuff out of the way first. The CGI is dreadful. I think I saw digital waves at one point. Egads. And yet, the film manages to maneuver around these obstacles to deliver high-energy action sequences in the third act.
Plot, plot, plot...a little boy has been feeding meat to a pod of small-ish alligators behind his parents' back. His excuse? Boredom. Personally, I've never been restless enough to risk losing a limb, but whatever. He gets plenty of attention when a big-ish alligator shows up at his family's cabin. There are also subplots concerning a hunting party. They are not terribly interesting, but screenwriter David Reed does a tidy job of tying all of the characters together. The kid I mentioned may have been bored, but I wasn't. Lake Placid 3 premiered on the Syfy Channel, but it's worth noting that several boobs were added for the DVD release. Apparently, the nudity was expurgated on Amazon Prime. Okay, it wasn't worth noting. My bad. I had fun with this random sequel, although I doubt that I'll be trying out Lake Placid: The Final Chapter anytime soon. The same goes for Lake Placid vs. Anaconda and Lake Placid: Legacy. As if!
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