Paul Magne Haakonsen There is just something alluring about these creature features, where you sit and watch gargantuan sized creature waddle about and killing people. However, most of these movies tend to be rather bad. And "Supergator" was one of those movies.First of all there was absolutely no coherent history to the story that would make it plausible in any way. It was all just too random, and mostly appeared to be made up along the way according to what whimsical thought and idea director Brian Clyde had in that exact moment.Secondly, a creature feature needs to have proper special effects and CGI effects. "Supergator" couldn't boast with that accomplishment. No Sir, not one bit. Everything here was just laughable and really poorly animated at best. The creature, supergator or whatever we should call it, looked like something taken out from the early days of the Amiga 500 computer. It was laughable, fake and so poorly animated that you didn't buy into it for a second.The acting in the movie was sort of adequate enough, taking into consideration the nature of the movie, and also taking into consideration the severe limitations inflicted on the acting talents in terms of script, dialogue and lack of story.Furthermore, the sounds of the nature in this movie, such as rushing water, a waterfall, etc. was just seriously too loud. It overshadowed everything else, and actually drowned out a lot of dialogue. But hey, given the dialogue level of the movie, I guess that was actually not such a bad thing after all.I enjoy creature features, but found nothing, absolutely nothing enjoyable in "Supergator". So take heed, and stay well clear of this 2007 movie. It's feeble bite will not even leave a dent on your skin."Supergator" scores a mere two out of ten stars here, and even then I am feeling kind of generous.

Tonci Pivac Supergator is set in Hawaii where a group of vulcanologist's are studying a volcano near a holiday resort, they think it might be about to blow. Professor Scott Kinney (Brad Johnson), one of his senior graduates Ryan Houston (Josn Kelly) are sent in to liaise with resident volcano watchers Max (Dave Ruskjer) & his assistant Alexandra Stevens (Mary Alexander Stiefvater) & compare notes, the sort of things vulcanologist's do. They decide to set some seismograph's up near the base of the volcano to measure it's activity, the group set off but hadn't counted on there being a 30 foot genetically created 'supergator' that kills & eats anyone it comes across & it's heading straight for the holiday resort where it has plenty of tasty humans to pick from...King of the rip-off cheapies Roger Corman strikes again, this straight- to-video Sci Fi Channel creature feature was executive produced by Corman while it was co-written & directed by Brian Clyde & isn't anything particularly special although it passes the time harmlessly enough if you don't expect too much. The script by Clyde, Frances Doel & Jeffrey Sturges is pretty clichéd & very standard for this type of film, basically there's some form of huge man eating monster/creature running around eating the less important members of the cast & when all said & done that's all there is to Supergator really. The film moves along at a reasonable pace, I certainly wouldn't call it slow or boring & there are a few unintentionally funny moments. I must also congratulate the makers for such a high body count & surprisingly a lot of the cast die even some I was expecting to make it. The reason behind the supergator itself is your standard 'genetic experiment gone horribly wrong' type scenario, you know I was sitting there watching this & I was thinking to myself why would a bunch of scientists create a huge prehistoric alligator? It just doesn't make any sense to me, what were they hoping to prove or find out that they couldn't achieve by genetically creating a docile, plant eating dinosaur that could have been easily controlled & relied on not to eat every person it came across? I don't know, then again maybe I'm just thinking about this too much. If you like cheesy creature features then Supergator isn't all that bad but it's nothing new or special.Director Clyde doesn't do much to liven things up, some of the scenery is quite nice but the direction & the set-ups aren't that great. It seems just about every tourist on Hawaii is traipsing through this particularly patch of forest where the supergator lives, there are random people like models, dope heads, fishermen, lovers, waterfall watchers, random guy's driving jeeps & vulcanologist's walking around. The gore is disappointing, there is one severed body part, someone is decapitated otherwise there are just quick shots of people covered in fake blood. The CGI computer effects are poor, the supergator itself looks OK but it isn't animated that well & every time it attacks someone a fake puppet head & jaws are used & there are close-ups of it's blood stained mouth & teeth yet when the film switches back to the CGI supergator it's mouth & teeth are perfectly clean. What does it do? Whip out a handkerchief & wipe itself? There is also a fair amount of CGI blood which looks pretty fake, almost like a solid red cloud.With a supposed budget of about $250,000 this was pretty damned low budget & in a way they did OK with the meagre amount they had but it's still not a very good film. Actually shot on location in Hawaii apparently. The acting isn't anything particularly memorable. Kelly McGillis of Top Gun (1986) fame plays a scientist & gets eaten.Supergator is an OK time waster & that's being kind to it, it didn't impress me that much but it kept me relatively quiet for 100 odd minutes. I've definitely seen better but then again I've definitely seen worse.

Ray Humphries I'm sorry guys, but if you didn't like this movie (Why is it not called Dinocroc II? Because they used gator DNA!) you shouldn't be watching the Sci Fi Channel. We've got a reasonable scenario, a scary beastie (near-decent CGI), and babes galore (most of whom, excepting Misses Lawson (Carla) and Stiefvater (Alex), you've likely never seen before and may not again) with so much gore I can't see how it avoided an "R".The Supergator has gotta be the hungriest critter ever to have graced the silver screen, on in this case the boob tube. First it eats a pair of lovers who threaten to do "it" in front of the waterfall, but don't, take a swim instead, and become gator nosh anyway. Then with a swooping leap it eats a fey photog, and follows him up with a toothsome (pun) model. Next (or maybe not) he eats a couple of hiker chicks who though warned (Hey, this is Hawaii, there are no wild animals), mosey on toward the waterfall and .... Then there are the two skinny, drunken entrepreneur wannabes, chomp, while their fat friend runs away. The fat friend encounters the other model who fled the photo-shoot (and whom you thought escaped -- Ha!). They hide in a mango (or is a banyan) root maze until... yep, super-gator tea time. I don't know if this was actually shot in Hawaii, but it absolutely was not shot in Bulgaria.Our heroes, the vulcanologist, Dr. Scott Kinney (Brad Johnson) and his crew climb the side of the long dormant, now gurgling, volcano and meet up with the paleo-geneticist (Kim Taft, who invented Supergator) and her white hunter, on the prowl to recover (like, terminally) the incredible creature (maybe we could call him Edipus Rex?). Scott's obnoxious student assistant goes off over the hill to reset a camera, and darned if he doesn't lose one fall out of one to the monster.Both teams flee back to the waterfall lagoon where their boats are, and as Scott's two female associates, Carla and Alex, start to head back downriver to warn the town of the impending eruption, they **fall out of the boat**! Scott saves Carla and Alex is helped by Kim (played by Kelly McGillis) -- Kelly McGillis whom we all love from "Cat Chaser." If you don't know why we love her from "Cat Chaser," go rent the movie. Oh, she gets et. Dr. Scott and the white hunter take off by boat to whack the creature, and the two girls (Carla and Alex) take off on foot to warn the town. They catch a ride with some jerk who stalls his jeep just as the super-gator intersects their course. Cameo appearance for our driver. The women flee on foot, only Alex doesn't flee quite quickly enough, and "another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust."The crews, or what's left of them, make it back to town where the festival luau is about to go down (you might think of this as homage to "Jaws" except it's used in every one of these things). The volcano has quieted, but we still gotta warn the crowd that there's a prehistoric monster running amok. Since no one pays attention the super-gator eats the park manager and several patrons, actually I lost count, on his way to destruction. I won't tell you how, but you can figure it out about 15 minutes before hand. It's a gas.In the epilogue Scott and Carla go off laughing about their experiences, which I found in quite poor taste. I mean, I was laughing, but the characters shouldn't be. Then there are the obligatory pictures of the Kileuea lava flow, which I don't get.

bobafett365 Going into this film I really wasn't expecting much. The scene with the photographer and the two lumps of stupid posing for him only served to support my expectations.The concept was completely retarded, which in and of itself isn't enough to kill the movie. Most Sci-Fi Channel movies are ridiculous but incredibly fun. This isn't that fun. The acting is terrible, with the actors either being too intense or seeming like they just don't give a crap. The special effects aren't much better. The up close attack scenes are laughable. You can see it's clearly a rubber head. And the recycled Jurassic Park raptor screeches are more than a little distracting.I was most disappointed in Bianca Lawson, who did a wonderful job as Kendra during her short run on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It saddened me to see her in a movie like this.In all, not the WORST movie to come out of Sci-Fi Channel, but in no way a great movie by any stretch of the imagination.