The plot of this film is quite simple. Debbie Gibson plays an environmentalist who decides to steal a bunch of poisonous snakes into the Everglaides, where somehow they grow to somewhat larger proportions and start eating people and alligators. Then someone called Tiffany, who plays a Sheriff, is a co-producer on the film and somehow manages to spend the entire film with her cleavage on display, issues some snake hunting permits which ends up getting her fiance killed.
Her response is to feed chickens injected with growth inducing steroids to Alligaotrs. These grow to monstrous proportions, complete with nice shot of cell division, before laying a load of eggs. Some of the eggs are eaten by the snakes which grow just as big. The two species fight each other before teaming up to eat Humans.
Meanwhile an Indian guy shows up, who is a herpetologist and an expert in explosives, a distinctiviely unusual combination for his CV, who keeps telling Tiffany to call out the National Guard. She doesn't and ends up getting into a brilliant bitchy catfight with Debbie Gibson, which involves food being thrown, Debbie Gibson's face in a pie and cream in Tiffany's cleavage before they fall into a nearby lake.
The snakes and gators show up in the middle of a fundraising shindig to save an estuary. The Indian tells everyone who has a weapon, which just happens to be everyone at the party, even the waiter, to start shooting. It doesn't stop them getting eaten though, after which the snakes and gators take on Miami, blowing up petrol stations, eating trains and popping blimps complete with a giant snake looking like a runaway balloon. Unfortunately at this point the actress who was the sweet old lady neighbour of Lynette's in Desperate Housewives and is playing a cop in this film, gets eaten by a snake (note to scriptwriters; don't kill off sweet old ladies near the end of films).
After that the Indian guy, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson get in a crop duster so they can spray pherromones to lure the snakes and gators back to a cave Debbie Gibson's going to blow up. This doens't quite work since a snake nicks the plane causing it to crash and Tiffany has to lure them away from a nuclear reactor in a hotwired car while the Indian guy uses a gun to free himself from the plane.
Tiffany manages to get back to the cave where Debbie Gibson is trapped between some baby gators and their momma. Tiffany manages to save Debbie by driving a car with a fuelbomb down Momma's throat before the two of them end up hiding in a container full of explosives. Meanwhile the Indian has taken out some gators trying to eat him by blowing up the plane and its leaky fuel supply, before being picked up by a helicopter. He arrives in time to save Debbie Gibson but Tiffany is eaten by a gator while Debbie Gibson falls into a lake, screams 'I'm alive! I'm alive!' before being bitten in two by a snake's head. A year later the Indian opens the estuary, makes a speech commerating both women even though they were the ones that caused the problem.
Ultimately this film, like Megashark, relies on bad acting, bad cgi, bad script and the idea that not only does stupidity pay but there's a reason for haivng the doctrine of contributory negligence in English law to pull off what is an incredibly enjoyable and hilarious film. With the tagline, 'screaming, scratching, biting... and that's just the girls' on the cover of the DVD, you know this isn't a film that takes itself too seriously, which given that there's a character called Justin Regina in the film as well as the line, 'you're gonna die smiling', is definitely a good thing. Given that I paid a mere three quid for it, I'll happily recommend it as one to buy and give it a rating of minus five out of five, even if the sweet old lady neighbour of Lynettes does get eaten.
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