A made-for-Scy-Fy channel movie. It's as dumb as all the other made for Scy-Fy movies, but with a lot more weird that actually made it almost wacky-silly-fun.
The story: an alien thing crashes into a museum and takes over the body of a frozen mammoth and begins attacking the town. The museum curator and his angry-at-dad-for-never-being-there daughter and his B-mive/conspiracy theroy dad have to help the government bring down the mammoth and stop the alien (i.e. save the world).
Was it good?
Seriously? Does it sound like it could actually be good? Now it does have Summer Glau (age 28, trying unconvincingly to play a 16 year old).
(my pic from her appearance at Wizard World, Los Angeles 2008)
And as fans of FIREFLY/SERENITY and TERMINATOR: SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES know the Gluaster is easy on the eyes. But the movie itself...well, it's a strange, wacky kind of movie that it strange and silly and stupid. At times, it's stupid fun. At times it's just stupid. I guess the easiest comparison is to one of the greatest of all silly/stupid monster movies -- TREMORS and MAMMOTH is no TREMORS.
Still, you could do worse and the SFX are better than norm. Probably the weirdest thing is that after an initial set-up where the mammoth is possessed and on the lose, they move to the story of the dad and his daughter (it's her 16th birthday and he missed it) for over twenty minutes without dealing with the mammoth at all. Suddenly a giant mammoth/alien on the loose isn't important. Weird.
*** CAN'T QUITE RECOMMEND (but it's silly and harmless) ***
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