A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Following a series of strange attacks, residents of a small Main lake find a giant crocodile living in the lake and are forced to deal with a dangerous hunter to stop the creature's rampage.This here turned out to be quite an enjoyable creature feature. One of the better features here is that this one manages a lot of action scenes featuring the crocs that are put on-screen quite early in here which allows this one quite a frantic and incredible pace along here. These are quite exciting with the initial scenes of the group being attacked out on the water in the patrol boat, the attack on the friends camping by the lakeside, the failed trap on the beach where they attempt to tranquilize the creature to no avail and the encounter on the water when they manage to successfully trap the croc and it succumbs to their armaments which is a great scene by itself but all the more potent when added alongside the rest of these action scenes. As well, the big finale in the woods works nicely as the staking near the nest features some nice suspense, the chases through the trees get plenty of nice action throughout here and the big brawls featured here gives it plenty of spectacle as well for a really thrilling and exciting finale. The shorter attack bits are also quite fun where it's relegated to brief ambushes that are based more on it popping up unexpectedly for a bite then disappearing again which also helps this one up the violence and gore here as there's some pretty brutal attacks here giving this one a lot to like. That one also manages to highlight its few flaws here as the film does tend to rely a lot on the shorter attacks for the majority of the scenes in the first half. While none of these scenes are really all that bad there's a lack of deviation here which brings this one to a tight, cramped-up feeling when there's a few short action scenes along the way. The only other part about this one that does tend to hold it down is usually horrid CGI featured for the most part here. The crocs are rarely believable here with flat, pixilated bodies that don't match the surroundings, obviously change size and scale from scene-to-scene and in general just looks quite bad. These here are what hold this one down.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Language and Brief Nudity.

A sequel and a remake, but inferior in every respect to the original. The two best recognized performers in this installment (Schneider – of "Dukes of Hazzard" fame – and Leachman, a once serious actress) are also the greatest shames. Schneider is a carbon copy of Bill Pullman's easy-going, water of a croc's back authority figure, while Leachman is essentially the same character as Bette White (in fact she's supposed to be her equally quirky sister). There's nothing new in the storyline, and no surprises with the climax.LaFleur is enigmatic and as equally alluring as Bridget Fonda in the original, but her character is less dynamic, without the eccentricities that made Fonda's character so appealing. Still, she's definitely a big tick in terms of talent for the male audiences. Schneider has the best of the conceited dialogue, and there's an occasional chuckle-worthy line to make you think you're not wasting valuable minutes of your life.Unfortunately, there's a lot of misery in this misfire – sagging momentum, stilted continuity, drab score, amateur acting and staging, pretentious dialogue and visible errors, and so it's surprising that it managed to secure the official sequel title, its predecessor, still regaled as a hallmark of the genre.

"Lake Placid 2", in my opinion, has to be one of the worst sci-fi films ever made on the face of the Earth. It is a waste of a person's time and money. As a matter of fact, I did get around to viewing the first "Lake Placid" movie that was made all the way back in the year of 1999. Personally, since it was, in fact a sci-fi horror/comedy flick, I thought it was okay. Definitely not perfect, but okay nonetheless. Now, why on Earth anyone would ever want to make a sequel to it is just beyond me. The biggest regret I've ever made in my life is watching it on the Sci-Fi Channel on TV because I wanted to check it out. Boy, was I ever stupid to waste 1 hour and 30 minutes of my life that I'll never get back.Here are my "Top 5" reasons why this movie, "Lake Placid 2" was so bad and should not be worth viewing.1) The actors. The acting is so atrocious, it's not even funny. Hell, why would you even put John Schneider in a movie like this? He didn't give a very good performance either as did all the other lame and pathetic actors in this movie.2) The plot. The plot is so unoriginal, it's been done so many times in other movies already. This is it: "A local sheriff must stop four crocodiles from wreaking havoc on a small town." 3) The special effects. They try to make the crocodiles look like gigantic dinosaurs in this movie. Believe it, right into the beginning, one of the crocodiles is able to pull a man off a boat and right into the water. Then, when the man's friend tries to help pull him back up, the crocodile comes in and eats him completely, just leaving out his arm and leg. So, basically, he eats the guy in just one bite. Give me a freakin' break! 4) The action. Now, don't get me wrong. A lot of people do get eaten and killed by the crocodiles in this movie, but overall, there's very little action throughout and it can also get boring very quickly.5) The filmmakers. These people have done such a poor job on this movie, that not only did they embarrass the actors, but they also embarrassed themselves. Especially the director and writers of this movie. The dialogue was very corny, and sometimes I found myself having to turn up the volume because I couldn't hear a word they were saying. Hell, even the director was making decisions of his own in this movie. It seems that every 5 or 10 minutes that pass in the movie, after someone has already got eaten by the crocodiles, then another person does, and then after that, another person gets eaten. So, it's like a pattern where all the people get killed first and then the crocodiles get killed second. Good lord! So, these are my 5 reasons why "Lake Placid 2", in my opinion, is one of the worst sci-fi movies ever made. I seriously do not know what these people were thinking when they made this miserable pile of crap. And get this, you think it's bad enough that they already did one sequel to the first "Lake Placid", they freakin' made another one, "Lake Placid 3" in 2010! And that one has also been getting bad reviews just like this one. I'm not even going to attempt to watch that one, knowing how bad the people have been saying it is. Do yourself a favor, and just watch the first "Lake Placid", and not any of the other poorly bad-made sequels.

In case you're not aware, the original Lake Placid was a movie about giant crocodiles eating people in New York's very own Lake Placid.Here we have the sequel, Lake Placid 2, which takes place in Maine, in a lake that is not called Lake Placid... but let's not sweat the details.After the astonishing success of Lake Placid 1, I can't blame the director for sticking to the plan - 5 minutes into the movie, we find ourselves knee deep in 40 foot crocodiles that have been raised by none other than the sister of the woman who raised the original crocodiles - talk about a family affair!Honestly, I loved the movie - the acting was fantastic, and I couldn't help but feel that I was right there in the action, watching some fool get eaten by a crocodile. And when the small town sheriff shows us all that he is an expert with an MGL Grenade Launcher, well, let's just say I called up my local movie store and reserved ten copies.