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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 76264
Released: January 11, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
An investigative team, armed with state-of-the-art equipment, high powered weaponry and a biting sense of sarcasm, must work together to defeat Black Lake's most ferocious resident: a 30-foot prehistoric crocodile! Betty White co-stars as the cantankerous Mrs. Bickerman - a role you've got to hear to believe - in this terrifying tale of survival that "combines humor and thrills with remarkable deftness."
Description of Lake Placid (Widescreen Edition):
Lake Placid is total trash--and, as a result, fairly entertaining. Yet another entry in the horror subgenre of giant animals running amok, Lake Placid features a giant crocodile that has somehow found its way to an isolated lake in Maine. The absurdity of crocodiles in Maine sets the tone for the entire movie, which has no ambitions beyond mixing a little fright with a little humor. Bridget Fonda (Point of No Return, Jackie Brown) plays a paleontologist sent to investigate a large tooth; Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Lost Highway) is a fish and game warden just trying to keep the peace; Oliver Platt (Funny Bones, Flatliners) plays a loose-cannon mythology professor who swims with crocodiles for sport; and Brendan Gleeson (an excellent but little-known actor, most noted for The General) is a local sheriff with a short temper and a big gun. Add a few gruesome dismemberments, Betty White as a cantankerous old broad who may have murdered her husband, and a cow hanging from a helicopter, and there you have it: Lake Placid. (Curiously, this concoction was put together by David E. Kelley, better known as the creator of TV's Ally McBeal and The Practice.) --Bret Fetzer
Lake Placid (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Fun and Gore 
2009-10-23 - The picture should not have been as entertaining as it is. It has all the makings of another trivial monster from the lagoon film but saves itself with sufficient fun to make it worth watching.....if you have nothing better to do. Another element to its credit is the sketch of a romantic comedy which sort of weaves through the film, not taking the spotlight but adding a note of gaiety. Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman handle that part of it about as well as its throwaway role in the picture allows. The other players do a good job with the stereotypes they are playing and the creators of the monster are to be congratulated for the credible threat and camera-suitable appearance of their invention. Betty White is a happy addition to the cast in a small role.
All in all, not a film to search out and pay much for; but one that can be enjoyable when you are in the mood for it.
great movie 
2009-07-06 - This movie is very good and and has a couple of funny parts. Some of the parts are not for children but mainly my kids love all kinds of movies with alot of action and monsters like this one.
A HOLE BUNCH OF LAUGHS... 
2009-06-22 - LAKE PLACID IS REALLY A FUN MOVIE. THE CHARACTERS ARE JUST PERFECT. BETTY WHITE AND BRIDGETT FONDA IS HILARIOUS. "SO IS THE SHERIFF". THIS FLICK IS WORTH HAVING IN ANYONE'S COLLECTION. SUSPENSFUL, FUNNY AND A BIG CROC-A-DUEL! LOL
A humorous monster movie
2009-06-15 - I got the feeling this was a made for Bridget Fonda movie.
A giant crocodile takes up eating the wrong food... people
when a fish and game beaver bander is killed.
Fonda plays a paleontologist sent to identify a tooth taken from the body.
An unlikely reason for her to be camping on the lakeside with the local sheriff, an handsome fish and game fellow and
a crocodile hunter. From there is goes downward with a cursing
Betty White as a local resident whose "pet" the croc is.
The result is besides the gore of people getting their heads eaten
kind of funny, but no really good laughs.
Lake Placid Movie
2009-06-13 - Kind of a funky movie but as the cover says parts are scary and others are pretty funny. A fun movie to watch every once in a while. Betty White is a riot in this.
