(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="592" valign="top"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="592"> <tr> <td width="100%">  </td> </tr> </table>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="255" align="right"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><img border="0" src="../stills/sewergators-poster.jpg" width="250" height="367"></td> </tr> </table> <p>It all starts with a trailer trash couple being killed in their trailer - by an alligator that has come through the sewers. But it's before Sheriff Mitchell (Kenny Bellau) can really do anything that he's already put on a leash by mayor Bobby (Sean Phelan), who wants to hold the traditional, annual Gator Fest at whatever cost. And shen more gator related incidents follow, the mayor just puts a price on the gator's head - and when some local yokels bring back a dead gator, it seems like problem solved. Only the sheriff and a freshly arrived zoologist Laura (Manon Pages) are not that sure, and an abduction shows that the captured gator has never had human flesh - so there must be more than one in the sewers. So it seems the whole town's in danger, but that doesn't keep the mayor from having his festival - and thus the sheriff and Laura hook up with Shane (Austin Naulty), local survivalist and crazy person rolled into one, and the three of them go down to the sewers to do some hunting - but are they the hunters or the hunted?<p> <p>Now yes, the story of this film follows the plot of <b><a href="jaws(1975).shtml">Jaws</a></b> pretty closely, and if you look close enough you'll also see the occasional reference to <b><a href="sharknado(2013).shtml">Sharknado</a></b> - besides many other animal horror flicks I'm sure -, and it's also true that the film's creature effects give Bela Lugosi's octopus fight in Ed Wood's <b><a href="brideofthemonster(1955).shtml">Bride of the Monster</a></b> a run for its money ... and none of this really detracts from the movie's entertainment value, quite the contrary, as <b>Sewer Gators</b> doesn't take itself seriously in the least, instead plays with genre conventions, deliberately ditches realism for good (or even cheap) jokes, and just enjoys being silly. That said, the film stays clear of just coming across as moronic, it does have a structured plot and decent build-up - if stolen from <b><a href="jaws(1975).shtml">Jaws</a></b> - and fun characters that are more than just one-joke wonders. Basically not a masterpiece at all - but a fun party flick all the same. <p>  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="2"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="2" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2022"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>