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Blue Demon

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

If you are reading this review to sort out if you might want to rent this or buy it - this may help: DON'T!!! It is not scary, nor is it (intentionally) funny. The plot is boring, the acting poor, and the CGI sharks are laughably bad. This is a simple review for a simple movie... I hope it helps...

Wow is this movie terrible. Blue Demon has that noticeable and irritating made-for-TV feeling about it, and the quality of the storytelling certainly does nothing to change the viewers mind.

What had the potential to be a frightening movie involving deadly monster sharks attacking people was actually so bad it hurt.

ALL the characters acting skills were horrible, music would constantly appear at all the inappropriate moments giving off the feeling I was watching a comedy film at times, the storytelling had completely missed the mark, the sharks didn't pose as much of a threat as they should have, and did I mention the characters were horrible? Every time they introduced someone, there was no telling if they would stick around or not.

The only part of the movie I liked was when the young daughter was going fishing with her father. Everything else -including the terrible relationship between the two people working together that involved the woman taking the ring off her hand at one point early on- was terrible.

A very bad attempt at a shark movie.

The following film for which this review is rated PG-13 for some action seqeunce, violence, and occasional brief strong language.
What do you get when you cross die hard with Jaws. You get the 2005 made for television now on DVD movie Blue Demon. When a top secret counter terrorist project Blue Demon is sabotaged by some one connected to the project. It is up to two scientific researchers on the project Maria Played by Debee Pfeiffer and her ex husband Nathan Randall Batnkoff to stop six governmentally enhanced great whites. From turning the local bathers into shark burritos. Can they shop these six terrors and stop the diabolical mastermind who has stolen a Russian case bomb before it is delivered shark express to it's designated location. Find out in the thrilling action packed conclusion.

swim so slowly almost EVERYONE they attack has no problem getting away from them. The scientist warns (at the beginning and end of the film) that they did something terrible in creating these sharks. I agree. If such sharks ever bred, the world's shark population would starve, as these things were completely unable to catch anything. (If you can't catch a floundering human, how are you supposed to catch a creature adapted to swimming.)

Okay, this was a terrible movie done on a very small budget. The plot was stupid, the acting bad, and the special effects were anything but special.. Could easily be a movie that gets one star with a disclaimer that it only gets one star because we can't give it less. HOWEVER...Jeff Fahey plays a "patriotic" American general, and he is so over the top, so into hamming it up that I think the movie is worth seeing just for his performance. It's a bad performance, but you have to believe he knew it was bad while performing it. You have to be pretty bored to watch this one, but hey...I made it throuh the whole thing. Barely.

Okay, for those of you who HAVE seen this movie and are reading this, and even for those who haven't, let's get one thing straight right now: I am NOT giving this movie four stars based on it's artistic merits. This movie is not great. This movie is not good. This movie is not even bad. It is horrible, horrendous, and otherwise ridiculous. So why am I giving it four stars? Because I haven't had this much fun watching a movie since I don't know when.
First things first: the plot. The plot is simple enough; scientists create bigger, meaner, and faster sharks that they can control so that they can stop terrorists. Of course, this would be entirely useless unless the terrorists swam to America, but you get the point. But wait, something's gone wrong! The sharks have escaped! Who ever would have thought THAT would happen? Anyway, the sharks wreak havoc, attack people, yadda yadda yadda... but here's the thing: a grand total of five people die in this movie. A kid at the beginning, two repair people, a surfer, and one more person who it would be a spoiler to reveal. Five. There are six sharks in this movie, people! Anywho, the two main characters, a supposedley divorced couple of scientists, try to stop the sharks, warn the coast guard, etc. There's even a mean military guy who may have insidious plans of his own (hint hint). You may find yourself wondering like I did how they managed to strech this out for ninety minutes.
So, now that that's out of the way, lets' talk about the bad parts of this movie. Oh boy, where to start? The CGI is laughably bad- in fact, it's almost as bad as the abysmally bad acting (Deedee obviously didn't inherit her sister's acting abilities). The plot is also so ridiculous as to border on the insane. For example, in the movie, the main badguy is stopped when Deedee's character throws a life preserver on him. Why couldn't he just lift up his arms and take it off? Also, the shark called Red Dog is always said to be the biggest, fastest, and meanest. So, if he's the fastest, then why is he always the last in the sequences that show all of the sharks? However, the worst part, for me anyway, was when a couple was being attacked by the sharks, and a man comes out of nowhere with a harpoon... and kills the shark. The camera then zooms in on his face, and he just shakes his head. He is later described as an "overzealous fisherman." Oh, and let's not forget the scene where someone is killed at the beach, and the bystanders are all pointing in different directions! This movie is filled with little tidbits like that. Filled. As in, the WHOLE ENTIRE MOVIE is like that. Oh, and by the way, I hope you're not offended by movies that make fun of little people. 'Cause that's all over the place here, too.
So, you say, what are the good things? If you're giving this a four, it must have some redeeming qualities, right? Well, not so much. You see, there is one reason and one reason only why I gave this movie four out of five stars: it is, as my title suggests, hilarious. If you're the kind of person that loves to laugh at bad movies, then you cannot live without this little treasure. My entire family was laughing out loud the entire time; so much so that we had to pause it frequently so as not to miss upwards of five minutes of the movie (although I get the impression that I could have left halfway through and come back thirty minutes later and still known exactly what was going on). It's just that funny. And the sad part is, I'm pretty sure it wasn't done on purpose. (Mind you, some of it is. The main character references Kafka and the guard next him tells him not to swear. Huh? Was the reaction that both we as the audience and the character had.)
Now, of course, I couldn't give this movie a five, just out of sheer principle. But if you love laughing at bad movies, this is a must have.

I think the reviews on this film are the least representative batch I've ever seen on Amazon. "Blue Demon" is a tongue in cheek film about a military research program that genetically alters sharks so they fight and defeat terrorists. If you can't see the humor in that premise, something's wrong.

As you can imagine -- and, if you've been reading along, you see -- that things vary quite a bit from this premise right away. Something goes badly wrong with the sharks' computer program, they break out of their containment hatch, swim around in California waterways, eat some people, and more.

The film has no real stars; DeDee Pfeiffer, a ringer for Cameron Diaz that has appeared in "CSI New York", is the main charcater with Randall Batinkoff, who plays her husband and fellow researcher; "Seinfeld" short person star Danny Woodburn, who plays their boss; and veteran character actor Jeff Fahey, who plays the military general behind the doublecross. None of these actors enhanced their careers with this movie but I'm sure they'd all agree it was fun to make.

That's becuase it's fun to watch. I agree with the other critics that say it's inane; that's what makes it fun. And while the computer-generated sharks would never be confused with real animals...well, this is a movie, right? Did someone out there confuse this for a documentary? The sharks aren't any worse than other computer-generated fish I've seen in other recent films.

My capsule summary is this: don't go into this thinking you're going to see one of the great action-horror films of recent years. But you can expect to be entertained by a fast moving flick that has a lot of humor and whose actors participate in the tongue in cheek format right from the first scene.

I'm a sucker for a good shark movie. Heck, I'm a sucker for a semi-decent shark movie. JAWS obviously set the bar pretty high, but there have been some close runners up in OPEN WATER and even DEEP BLUE SEA. So, having said that, I hope that you can understand how much it pains me to say that I couldn't find a single redeeming thing about BLUE DEMON. What's so bad about it? Well, despite the fact that the shark fins are all clearly tied on to a scuba diver's head, the main problem is that BLUE DEMON flounders around in a shallow pond known as: The un-scary, un-funny PG-13 Sci-Fi Channel horror-comedy.

I wish someone would explain the recent trend behind PG-13 horror movies that are intentionally goofy to me. Like Carmen Electra's MONSTER ISLAND or even BOA VS. PYTHON. It's as if there's a whole generation of people that were brought up on Sci-Fi Original movies and R.L. Stine books. Who is the intended audience for these things? No one over the age of ten would find these movies remotely scary, and it seems like the filmmakers know that, so they make the movies intentionally quirky and self-effacing for the thirty-somethings. But the inside jokes and the sarcasm would go right over the head of the few ten year olds that were actually watching the movie to get scared. And then, just to confuse the audience even more, they have these semi-dramatic scenes where people are crying over lost friends or trying to mend their shattered marriage. The end result is a movie that's not scary, not funny and not dramatic. It's like a stew where none of the flavors work well together.

It's impossible to critique anything individually in this latest addition to the intentionally goofy wanna-be scary movie genre - the whole thing stinks. The CG sharks, the acting, the dialog... especially the music, which sounds like it came directly from Ron Jeremy's personal collection of porn scores. In defense of the actors, they all seem to know that they're in DEEP BLUE SEA LITE, and they act appropriately. In other words, they mug for the camera, they make ridiculous faces and stomp around. The only thing missing is a few fart noises. Come to think of it, maybe they should have added some, it might have made the movie better.

I know what you're thinking: "Oh wow! Cool! That Mexican superhero is getting his own movie for the 21st century!" Well, OK, maybe not...

Maybe you're thinking: "Oh cool! They made a movie based off that obscure comic book superhero! I love that guy! Man I got such a high!" Well, OK, maybe not that either.

What is "Blue Demon"? Take a military experiment, bad actors, every cliche known to man, and special effects that make pencil tests look like Richard Williams films, and you got this. The latter is especially hilarious, with sharks the size of Great Whites literally LEAPING out of knee-high water and eating people. The underwater scenes don't do the movie any justice, and only serve to highlight the weakness of the movie.

So don't see this movie. There are many more productive things you can do, like going to your fridge, opening up a jar of mayonnaise and proceeding to sniff it directly into the nose before screaming, "I'M A CYCLOPS!!"

I give this film 5 stars, because it made me laugh so hard. i don't think that was intention of the director. Like the other reviewers have pointed out it's not the best written film in fact it's awful. I think the writer, producer; director had hands in too many pies, as they'd say. It started out ok but cliché after cliché just ruins an otherwise ok starting, but if you want a laugh then rent this turkey to make fun of it. I'll just give you how bad it is, after watching this howler I like Jaws 4 (The Revenge better.) then this train wreck of a picture. I felt for the actors though they were trying hard, but script was a flop. Happy laughing everyone. The story revolves around a couple of scientists and genetically altered sharks. the effects were'nt all that special either.

Oh and i believe this is on Netflix instant viewing, so those who have that service can watch this turkey for a laugh . make fun of it by creating your own witty dialogue up to survive this awful picture, lol.