As irritating as Lake Placid sometimes is, it also has an easygoing sense of fun, along with one of the more memorable movie monsters of recent years. The mismatched ingredients blend into a blissfully, stupidly surreal summer cocktail.Read Full Review »
Trouble is, while not trading quips, the characters actually go through the motions of being scared of the croc, menaced by the croc and so on. And since even the gator horror satire is old hat (remember ''Alligator?''), there's no remaining way to make this interesting.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
It's laughably stupid, only fitfully scary and relatively harmless summer fun – if you're 12 years old, in which case you probably aren't supposed to be going to movies like this anyway.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
It's like a summer stock "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," with the proviso that occasionally a giant snaggle-tooth monster slobbers onstage and eats George or Martha.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
A bunch of IQ-challenged characters traipsing through a laughably bad scenario brought to life using silly dialogue, banal direction, and questionable special effects.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Owen Gleiberman
Instead of rooting for Pullman and Fonda, we end up praying that the crocodile is hungry enough to put them out of their misery.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie is pretty bad, all right. But it has a certain charm. It's so completely wrong-headed from beginning to end that it develops a doomed fascination.Read Full Review »
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