Product Details

• Actors: Xander Berkeley, Amy Jo Johnson, Michael Durrell, Jonas Talkington, Doug Dearth
• Directors: Ian Gilmore
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: December 26, 2006
• Run Time: 87 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000JJ4W3I
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,889 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Magma: Volcanic Disaster" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Scientist Peter Shepard must race against time to save the planet when he believes that worldwide volcanic activity signals an impending global catastrophe, and no one will believe him.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 1-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Disappointing, January 21, 2007

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AllyieMG (Boston, Ma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magma: Volcanic Disaster (DVD)

I am notorious for liking bad natural disaster movies... but this is awful, even for me. The effects were awful (the opening sequence is just ridiculous), the acting very poor, the overall effect is not very interesting. The best acting was done by Xander, but this performance was mediocre for him. I just wasn't impressed at all. I'd rent this before thinking of buying it. I'm sure glad I did.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad, bad, bad, June 30, 2007

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Volker "Volker" (Manteca, Californien) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Magma: Volcanic Disaster (DVD)

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.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars MUSHY MAGMA, December 31, 2006

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Magma: Volcanic Disaster (DVD)

Originally airing on the Sci-Fi channel, this is another one of those disaster movies with a wholly illogical scientific basis and mediocre special effects. As a disaster movie, it also fails to deliver any real scenes of personal crisis or danger, leaving us with a talky treatise on governmental incompetence.
Xander Berkeley is quite good as the heroic scientist whose theory of cataclysmic disaster is rejected by other scientists; Reyko Aylesworth is very good as his estranged wife whose own life may be in peril; and Amy Jo Johnson is the oh so bright graduate student.
While certainly not a classic disaster flick, it's an okay timepasser.