This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Excellent, a Must See

Awesome Movie

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

In case you ever wondered why movies like "Schindler's List", "Ghandi" or "Saving Private Ryan" are so unendurably horrible, it's because they're so grotesquely unrealistic and absurd! Truly brilliant movies are plausible and terrifyingly authentic … like "Mammoth", for example! This movie has – hands down and without a doubt – the most intelligent and convoluted screenplay ever written and it's a downright disgrace (blasphemy, even) that this landmark of cinema shamefully got overlooked during the Academy Awards Ceremony in 2007. Dig this: a meteor, carrying an alien parasite, crash-lands in a museum of national history and invades the frozen remains of a 600.000 year-old mammoth. The humongous prehistoric elephant promptly awakens and goes for a walk in the nearby woods, disturbing an illegal teenage party, a senior citizen's sex excursion and the already disturbed family life of museum curator Frank Abernathy. He goes after the mammoth, along with his sweet sixteen daughter and her horny boyfriend, a CIA agent with beautiful big boobies, a retarded redneck sheriff and his own B-movie obsessed father (oh Tom Skerritt, whatever happened to your career?). Like I said already, sheer genius filmmaking, complete with profound dialogs, brilliant plot twists and some of the most advanced hi-tech computer engineered special effects ever beheld with human eyes. The alien invader is some kind of body snatcher and literally sucks the life out of his victims' corpses through the mammoth's trunk. Phenomenal performances all around, particularly from the gorgeous Summer Glau, who's in fact a 25-years old but effortlessly depicts a troublesome teenager. In short, this is the type of motion picture Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès envisioned when they invented and developed the medium of cinema! Make sure you don't miss it.

I wasn't expecting much from this movie which is just as well . The premise is silly - aliens causes a woolly mammoth to come to life which then stalks the land . Obviously the budget ran out after the cast were given contracts so the production company couldn't afford basic CGI and the title creature appears very rarely . Instead like most of these features the story involves some teenage jinks like the good girl sneaking her boyfriend in to her bedroom . No monkey business because she's a good kid .It really is ridiculous how the producers go out of there way to disguise the budget . There's a rule about screen writing where would be writers are ordered to " show don't tell " . Unfortunately someone thought " Play mammoth noises offscreen " is showing . No it's not - it's telling . All in all a rather low budget affair which is very talkative and boring . Though in its defence MAMMOTH is inoffensive

This is the best monster movie I've seen in quite some time. The main reason is that there were characters I liked - not just cannon fodder. I mean, with some flicks recently, you're probably happy if the annoying would-be stars were killed off the screen at the first opportunity... With the low quality of such scripts and acting, one got almost used to supporting the monster instead of the humans. In "Mammoth", that isn't the case. Vincent Ventresca plays a slightly mad scientist whose main concern isn't fighting the monster, he's far more worried about his daughter (Summer Glau from 'Serenity') dating her first boyfriend while his dad (Tom Skerritt) is chasing UFOs. All three members of this family are really sympathetic and turn "Mammoth" into a delightful comedy. The downer is the monster, though. The clumsily animated mammoth doesn't look real in any shot, and then the whole idea with the alien sucking people's life energy (that's seemingly a kind of white gas inside humans) is somewhat unconvincing, to put it mildly. But in the end, it's one and a half entertaining hours and I think I spent the rental fee well on this one.

How can you run out of ideas for a re-animated by alien technology zombie soul sucking mammoth? This film shows you how and it's a real shame.I appreciate that the film is not taking itself seriously (the Spaghetti Western showing it's intention for fun) but it takes ages for the comedy timing to hit form (in fact the autopsy room scene much later in the film) and most viewers will probably have lost track of the plot due to time spent flicking through TV pages, getting a brew etc.This shows a lack of concentration by the development team and jokes that may have seemed funny during the writing process clearly fail on the screen.Somewhat like The Faculty the film self references movies of its genre but unlike the aforementioned film Mammoth does this badly except on a few occasions (The Jurassic Park and "Werewolf howls" - Mammoth trumpeting parts). Having someone make movie references can work but they have to be logical choices and not used all the time.Too many good ideas are not fully realised and the film needs to decide if it wants to be a comedy horror or played straight as different actors seem to have different ideas.It is by no means the worst movie I have ever seen but it's definitely one for a very rainy afternoon.