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Director: Gary Jones Starring: Heidi Noelle Lenhart, Chuck Walczak, Jon Sklaroff, Darryl Theirse Screenplay: Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch Country: USA

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Crocodile 2 is the story of magical robbers who end up in some trouble. I figure they're magical even though the movie makes no mention of this, as they have mysterious powers enabling them to board planes while fully armed without the metal detectors going off. Despite their supernatural gifts, these robbers botch the robbery they were supposed to do and end up hijacking a plane, which then crashes into a swamp. The magic robbers seem fine after the explosive crash, so their powers must also extend to surviving within flaming wreckages. They take the other survivors with them as they leave the plane, and there are a LOT of them so maybe surviving crashes isn't a special power. I'm not sure why they take them, but they do. While leaving the crash site, one of the party is attacked by a crocodile. The robbers put their guns to good use, a bad idea since the croc's mate finds the bullet laden carcass and gets mad and goes for revenge, just like it would happen in real life. Martin Kove eventually turns up to help find the survivors because not enough Karate Kid alumni have been in big monster movies.

Crocodile 2 suffers from terrible dramatics, spiced with terrible comedy and even worse attempts at characterisation. Logic is completely absent, like given the location the movie should feature giant caimans. There's really, really bad ADR, and there's this prominently displayed lighter that's role in the plot is so obvious it deserved a special Oscar for "Most Obvious Use of a Prominently Displayed Prop." I had nearly 30 minutes to get really annoyed with all of that crap before the crocodiles even turned up.