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Alligator 2 - The Mutation [VHS]

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By-the-numbers sequel to the 1980 cult classic penned by John Sayles has Joseph Balogna as a veteran cop who must hunt down a giant alligator that has been feeding on the locals. As it turns out, the gator is the product of chemical waste that has been dumped in the sewers by a crooked real estate bigwig. The script has some very silly dialouge and Steve Railsback's evil tycoon is a bit too over-the-top but the effects are alright (though one of the alligator shots was actually "borrowed" from the original). This sequel is more or less a watered-down retread of the first but if you're a fan of those "midnite monster" movies, you may want to give this its day in court. It is certainly far better than most of the awful new CGI monster flicks that run on cable these days.

I liked this movie alot it was pretty good I liked how the alligator looked like the reason why not to many people may not like this movie is because they are probably not interested in animals like alligators but I am and I like watch movies that have to do with giant alligators

The freaky sequel to the 1980 blockbuster, "Alligator 2; The Mutation" is another sickeningly horrifying film about a mutant alligator devouring a community and its residents. This time Hodges (Joseph Bologna) is the movie's hero, a gruff cop who soon discovers that a toxic waste dump planned by evil town-corruptors in the local lake has mutated an alligator into overintimidating size, and it has began to attack people. Along with his girl and a Cajun hunter named Lynch, detective Hodges attempts to stop the scaled menace from its man-eating rampage. Directed by Jon Hess and produced by "Alligator" Productions (you wonder why). I didn't like how the gator attacked so many people in the stupidest ways. I hate how it always attacks the wrong prey. In the first hit it ate an innocent little boy in his own swimming pool. Good for horror-film lovers, but to me is very lame.

I am a huge fanboy of water-related blood and gore movies such as Jaws series and I was very interested in viewing some crocodile movies. Horror movies, that is, as watching the Crocodile Hunter on Discovery Channel is a little mismatching my interests.
I've been looking through several movies and I purchased several of different years to compare and discuss.
This movie was not the highest rated, I can tell. Mostly because of the poor storyline rather than the actual models and effects.
The physical characteristics of the crocodile were a bit off. In the movie the crocodile was incredibly fast. In the real life world crocs are indeed fast but not able to go 70mph at one extent. The casual "dark room" scenes were used too much. Of course, obviously I understand that it is tended to make most killing scenes in the dark for less visual effecting glitches but too much is sometimes too bad.
As in the Amazon.com plot view it follows: crazy alligator escapes and raises Armageddon in the toilet-wasted waters. You know, I've seen this in some other movie. I think it's pretty sad that the location that this was taking place at had to be in such unusual for alligators enviroment.
At some points they used a real alligator, but they obviously zoomed in the camera to x100 extent. The CGI-controlled model was very unimpressive.
Anyway to conclude, the physical properties of the movie were rather disappointing but will give you a pretty good laugh like in an old-school version of Lost World where they use "totally zoomed in" lizards to represent dinosaurs.
If you are a hardcore movie watcher, don't buy this for Friday night. If you are simply interested in another blood movie I guess you could by this at such low price.
Yours sincerely :)

This movie s[tunk]!!!!!! It is a complete ripoff from the orignal and worst of all there is no plot except for big giant Alligator that terrorizes this city. see the original, don't waste your time with #2.

Alligator 2 is average b-movie. The special effects are okay exept for when the alligator bustes through the sewer wall. He looks really big, but in the next scene he loses 500 pounds and looks a lot more smaller. Alligator 2 is an alright movie to watch and is fun at times. I am thinking about buying this movie. The plot is good and so is the acting. This movie is good movie to watch every once and a while. Enjoy

its mainly dump but its not that bad.the alligator looks fine especily with those red eyes.it takes awile for the alligator to come but when he does its bloody for its rating and it attacks a carnival but that was a little cheesy and it has copeyd scenes from the 1st like where it copeyd one of the best parts from the 1st where the alligator is going in the pool. RATED PG/13 FOR BLOODY VOILENCE A LITTLE BIT OF GORE. AND BRIEF LANGUAGE.

this movie is alright. it's about an alligator mutated by toxic waste living in the sewer. at one seen a homless man is in the sewer. he calles for his friend and the alligator pops out with the guy in his mouth. it looked fake. it was like cardboard with fake teeth with a guy in his mouth waving him around. you would expect him to eat the guy. and when two guys are in a swamp and the alligator eats one of them. you then see a boot with a foot in it float to the top like in JAWS. when the alligator is swimming he's smaller then when he ate the guy. the movie is good enough to see though. i liked it a little. it stared Dee Wallace Stone from CRITTERS which is a very good movie if i may say so. so rent this movie if you think you'll like it. it's pretty good.

Alligator 2 is so terrible I wanted to puke when watching it! The alligator looks bad, the acting is not the greatest, and the plot is a rip-off from Piranha, which already crossed that line. So, if you want to see a great crocodile/alligator movie, see Lake Placid or Crocodile.

The beginning looks promising the rest is pure boring crap with very little alligator action and lots of wrestling and stop smoking scenes. When the alligator finally shows up the action is very dull and unexciting. This is perfect for MST3K. I don't know if it's even that good. If you make it all the way through this movie you performed an almost impossible task. Avoid at all cost. Doesn't even deserve 1 star, I give it ZERO STARS.