I'm ashamed to admit it, but I didn't see LP2. yes, I saw LP1 with Oliver Platt's hilarious overacting and that great giant croc and Betty White -- definitely a B-movie I could recommend -- but I somehow missed LP2. For LP3, they also made an UNRATED version with nudity so of course that's the version I watched :) The movie stars Colin Furguson (Eureka), Yancy Butler and Michael Ironside.
The story: the lake is supposed to be clear, but a young boy begins feeding baby crocs which grow to giant crocs and attacking everyone, putting the boy and his family (mom and dad), the local shariff, some teens out for a good time, a boy trying to stop them from having a good time, and some elk poachers, at risk of vicious croco-death.
Was it good?
Um...for a silly B-movie, this was good. While it didn't have as much going for it as the previously reviewed Killer Swarm, it has the pieces it is supposed to have and makes them work well enough for a fun, silly B-movie.
Unfortunately, you have to wade through some muck to get through to the good stuff. There's a lot of the shariff saying everything is now safe, which is lame. There's the early stuff about the boy feeding the crocs which is kind of stupid. I mean, I guess it's meant to be funny, but at a certain point it becomes to obvious that these things are out of control dangerous that there's no believability to it, and yet it's still not as enjoyable as Betty White feeding cows to them in LP1.
There's other stuff -- like the elk hunters who are supposed to be quirky and the boy trying to stop his girlfriend from sleeping with this random guy to get back at him, none of which were horrible, but none of it really helped the movie.
So, no, this isn't a classic and it's not great and it's not anything to write about (unless you have a blog), but it does what B-movies should do -- have a fun monster (or monsters), have some over-the-top action, have some fun loving T&A, and give lots of horror and action while not taking itself too seriously.
*** SLIGHT RECOMMEND (as a B-horror movie) ***
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