Product Details

• Actors: Allen Lee Haff, Leah Rowan, Guy Vieg, Robert Broughton, Richard Peterson
• Directors: Serge Rodnunsky
• Writers: Serge Rodnunsky
• Producers: Serge Rodnunsky, Cyndy Johnson, Matt Cunningham, William Burke
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: August 19, 2003
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009YXEQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,044 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Rodentz" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh my god, I loved this movie!! Very well done!, April 4, 2005

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Andrew Kaczrowski (Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rodentz (DVD)

So much action, great special effects! And the plotline, so intriguing!!

Um, wait, I thought I was reviewing Matrix Reloaded. Oh sorry, what's this movie?

Oh Rodentz. Well maybe I will keep the 5 stars, and say some good stuff. I thought that guy in the large rat suit was pretty good. And the erector set robotic rat at the beginning was super cool.

I didn't even mind seeing the same scene over and over, I mean if it is good-why not? We saw movie-greatness when we saw people walking through corridors one thousand times-that was very nice.

Just think of the camera work...

And the fuzzy slippers and stuffed animals that were attacking the people, those were pretty scary I thought! I don't think I'm going to open my dresser drawers for a good long time now.

I enjoyed seeing the large rat tail also, that was pure entertainment. Oh my gosh this would've been cool to see on the big screen, just think-an even bigger tail!

I liked this movie so much, I think I'm going to put in in my car, and try out my own amazing pyrotechnics, and I'll smile as my car and the DVD go up in flames. Thank god those two survived. I can't wait for Rodentz-The Rise of the Machines.

Starring Matthew Broderick as the guy in the Rat Suit.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Rodentz Suckz, October 3, 2003

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"-burntblood" (Carrollton, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rodentz (DVD)

One of the worst movies ever. Talk about bad computer generated effects. This movie has the worst. The effects are cartoonish at best.The only thing worse than the computer generated effects are the ones done the good old fashioned way which appear to be close-ups of somebody's house slippers.
There are several other movies like this available that are much better films, "The Rats" for instance.
I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Whole Lot Of Gnawin' Goin' On, September 30, 2010

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Robert I. Hedges - See all my reviews
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"Rodentz" (also known as "Altered Species") is a nigh-unbearable lab-animals-run-amok film starring a bunch of unknowns. This film will, no doubt, help their careers delve even deeper into obscurity. The film has a run of the mill plot about Professor Irwin (Guy Vieg) conducting laboratory experiments that go horribly awry, in this case producing super-aggressive gigantic mutant rats (or is that ratz?) The film features some cartoonish CGI, some hilarious rat costuming, lots of repeated footage of actual rodents in cages, and some of the worst acting on record.

The film is not only poorly conceived and executed, it's so boring that I had to watch it with the Spanish subtitles on to make it interesting enough to prevent dozing off (I knew three years of Spanish would finally come in handy some day.) The film does raise some interesting questions, such as how do rats electrocute a college student? All will be revealed (although not as realistically as you might wish.) The scary deserted science building with state of the art labs but no method of contacting the outside world is increasingly infested with lamer and lamer looking rats which continuously outsmart the collegiate twenty-something cast members. Sadly, this is the most believable part of the plot. Having spent a lot of time in college and professional labs, I was also interested to learn that half-length fishnet stockings were appropriate lab attire.

After hearing the name "Gary" yelled about a zillion times, the failure of a chemical warfare rodental elimination technique, and various annoying cast members being picked off in turn, a couple of the students end up in an elevator surrounded by bloodthirsty rats. What would the best course of action be? Surely for leading man Allen Lee Haff to climb up the elevator cables to chew on wiring in a fire alarm, resulting on the siren going off and causing the rats to die from blood shooting out of their ears. Obviously. While that was obvious, here's a puzzler they couldn't figure out: if you put on a gas mask and there's a rat inside it that starts to bite your face, should you attempt to take the mask off? This, believe it or not, required deliberation by more than one person.

Two survivors escape the building with the assistance of a homemade portable fire alarm (don't ask) and after fighting off a man in a horribly mangy flaming giant rat suit, escape in a VW Microbus. This is the only movie I am aware of that features a giant rat clawing its way through the roof of a Volkswagen of any sort, by the way. After what seems like a flaming ending to the rodental nightmare, the film closes in typical B-movie fashion with a tarantula getting into the same substance that made the rats evil and huge. While I prefer to think of that as an homage to earlier sci fi movies, it still elicited an eye roll and groan from me.

The DVD features a commentary track, but it is one of the most boring commentaries I have ever listened to. The commentary makes the point that expectations are very high of modern CGI, and that it's hard to live up to them, especially on a low-budget movie. I think that's actually a fair point, but it's also fair to point out that this movie is still a dreadful experience. It has a few high camp moments (the guy in the rat suit chief among them,) but even dedicated lovers of B-movies will find this one tough to enjoy.