Lake Placid
Fox 2000 Pictures | Release Date: July 16, 1999 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
Comes in well under the ninety-minute mark, leaving no room for bombast or overkill. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
The strange thing is that for all of Fonda's whining, Pullman's wary squinting and muttering, the bad dialogue, the cheesy effects, the severed toes, the severed heads, the severed bodies and the cliched directorial choices, Lake Placid adds up to a halfway enjoyable time at the movies. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerWesley Morris
It also goes out of its way to give you a schlocky B-movie vibe by wrangling bait in the form of a bunch of Big-Gulp stupid stock characters - that's a whopping 44 oz. more stupid than you probably were bargaining for. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
It’s a comedy, a romantic star vehicle, a thriller, a horror movie and a quasi-environmental parable that's calculated to appeal to all demographic groups. It's not enough of any one of these things to be particularly engaging. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Smoothly enjoyable, undemanding entertainment and features a couple of knock-out giant croc attacks. Read full review
50
USA TodayAndy Seiler
Amusingly macabre. [16 July 1999]
40
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Trouble is, while not trading quips, the characters actually go through the motions of being scared of the croc, menaced by the croc and so on. And since even the gator horror satire is old hat (remember ''Alligator?''), there's no remaining way to make this interesting. Read full review
40
Dallas ObserverAndy Klein
The only genuine surprises on hand are the few moments when the film defies the expectations that have been programmed into our collective neurons by the past 25 years of horror movies. Read full review
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