Last week, friend and fellow
blogger Richard (of I Liked That Film) produced a DVD from his bag and passed
it to me. He told me to watch it and said it’s rubbish. Over the last year or
so, a succession of films has passed between the two of us with each attempting
to increase the other’s cineliteracy. This time though, I thought he was taking
the piss as the film he presented me with was called Dinocroc vs. Supergator. I was briefly told about one or two
terrible scenes and like you do when you receive socks for Christmas, I smiled
politely, said thank you and tucked the film into my own bag. Despite having
just bought Rome Open City and Breathless the day before, it was this
that found its way into my DVD player first. Perhaps it was curiosity or maybe
it was similar to how you eat the vegetables before saving the steak until last
but I watched it first. And it’s awful. I’ve seen some bad films before but
this is up there with the worst.
The plot is very simple. An
unscrupulous biotech company is developing super crops on a Hawaiian Island.
Secretly they are also using the methods they’ve discovered to grow animals.
For some reason a Dinocroc and Supergator escape and eat most of the
scientists. Then they eat random idiots on various parts of the island before
being contained and forced to fight each other by a ramshackle group of local
heroes and assorted hangers on.
