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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 40224
Released: December 26, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
An action-filled sci-fi disaster film in the vein of Dante's Peak, Magma: Volcanic Disaster centers around unexplainable volcanic activity which threatens the world's population. A team of scientists set out to gather the evidence needed to convince government officials that the end is near and devise a plan to potentially prevent Armageddon.
Magma: Volcanic Disaster Reviews:
Magma: Volcanic Disaster 
2009-04-05 - Magma: Volcanic Disaster by Xander Berkeley, Amy Jo Johnson, Michael Durrell
Great movie!!
Definitely a B-Grade movie 
2009-02-25 - Obviously done on the cheap. For example; In a scene where there were supposed to be multiple explosions, was really one explosion done at different angles. Would have worked fine if they had bothered to check the background, and noticed that the extra that got hit in the first explosion, was the same extra that got hit in the second and third explosions.
It's like this throughout the entire movie. Very poor film continuation, weak plot and cornier than a bowl of popcorn. And it's so obvious.
Good for a laugh at the special effects, which again were definitely done on the cheap.
Magma Volcanic Disaster 
2008-10-30 - Movie came fast and in good shape. Love disaster movies but have not had time to watch this one yet
Decent Acting, Terrible Writing 
2008-02-21 - I can add little to what has been written about this movie, except that I can tolerate a bad movie; but not a stupid movie, and this is a stupid movie. The opening eruption that bathes a scientific survey team in lava is accompanied by violent tremors and aftershocks and a massive cloud of spewing ash, all witnessed by a rescue helicopter crew; yet five minutes later the protagonist/volcanologist declares the fate of the team "a mystery." And later, while his own team wander along a mine shaft, they all fail to notice glowing lava dripping from the ceiling. The "science" of the movie is equally ridiculous and the President of the U.S. is amazingly gullible about how to save the world--I would have required a lot more convincing before unleashing the Navy to fire nuclear missiles in the Marianas Trench. Finally, I never enjoy watching people falling into lava, but in this movie they are almost casual about it, which considerably lessens any feeling of dread.
Yet there are good points. The acting is above reproach and the interactions of several of the leads, while predictable, are actually interesting. The rest of the movie is TV-budget competent, and since one of the producers is the Sci-Fi Channel, it does no good to expect realistic special effects. The DVD is perfectly adequate, although for some reason the movie trailer is more letter-boxed than the movie itself. The credits at the end of the movie are too small to read on my TV screen, which implies theatrical release overseas. If so, no wonder they hate us.
Bad, bad, bad 
2007-06-30 - I am horrified by the thought that somebody might take those "scientists" seriously and actually believe in what this movie tries to tell. Let me pick just two of the many utterly wrong things: 1. Yellowstone sitting on the continent's biggest fault zone? I don't think so. Yellowstone is a hot-spot, like Hawaii, thousands of miles away from fault zones and anybody who took geology 101 would know the difference. 2. Black smokers in the Mariana Trench? So far, black smokers have been found on the ocean plateau, at about 6,000 ft depth but nowhere near the trenches. Oh, one more thing: the Virginia Class submarines shown in the movie have a maximum diving depth of 800 feet, nowhere near the depth of oceanic trenches. Enough.
I understand that a B-Movie's budget doesn't allow for a high-class scientific advisor, but any college student could have done a better job than whoever authorized this piece.
One scene I really liked: "There was a time when the scientific community unanimously agreed with the flat earth theory." Apparently, we didn't go very far ever since. If this movie had claimed our earth is a cube, it wouldn't be much further from the truth than the story of this sad piece of entertainment.
