Blue
Demon
Director: Daniel
Grodnik
Starring: Dedee Pfeiffer, Randall
Batinkoff, Danny
Woodburn, Josh
Hammond, Christine
Lakin
Review By Matthew &
Rebecca Pelishek
Its
hardly worth noting, as the plot of this movie is no different than EVERY other
B rate shark movie, but the opening voice over explains that its another case
of tinkering with the genetic make up of sharks. All in the name of science!
Surprisingly enough this is the first shark movie
we’ve seen that did not open on a boat of young collage kids half-naked in the
middle of the ocean. But just give it a
few minutes & sure enough, sorority girls with something to prove. Oh how
sweet, vulnerable & blonde.
Two girls go into the water, only one comes back out,
and also a severed arm.
Back to plot land.
The little person with crazy pants is calling the shots & he’s less
than happy with the scientist’s sandwich.
Sharks are supposed to respond to a signal the
scientists send out, which distracts them from attacking. The plot thickens when “Red Dog” is only
responding to tests half of the time. Mr shortie
gives the scientists 6 weeks to produce tangible results.
The shark scientists are married but science shark
stress seems to separate sweethearts.
Enter the token general in charge of the project. Think William Shatner,
but slow his speech about half speed & you have an accurate idea. The presentation fails when sharks do not
deliver; this does not bode well for general Shatner,
crazy short pants, or the relationship on the rocks.
Someone has opened the gate and the sharks have all
escaped. Cut to the father/daughter
fishing trip. Daddy wants to take a
picture of his little girl and her first big catch. Unfortunately, he can’t stand up
Mr. Scientist is locked up by military police. Mrs. Scientist rescues him with little to no
drama. They leave the facility, passing
by other guards who couldn’t care less that they had casually escaped.
For no reason, we cut to a young couple on a date to
the ocean. The scene is set up: they are both in the water,
the shark fin is heading towards them.
And them BAM! Nothing
happens. They see the shark and swim
back to shore. It’s at this point I
start to question the writers. It’s like
one of those stories that you pass around and each person writes a small part
in their own way. This would be the
point the story was passed to grandma, and she wrote a nice, uneventful ending
to the scene. Let’s hope it gets passed
to the crazy uncle by the time the movie ends.
Well no surprise here.
The government wants to use this project to create weapons out of the
sharks. Peaceful scientists don’t
agree. Too late, the government gave
‘Red Dog’ a Russian suitcase bomb. Some
redundant swearing ensues. Also, a
really uneventful car chase. BUT, the
scientists send a signal to the rogue ‘Red Dog’ and it takes its Russian bomb
back to the underwater lab where the general greets it with a salute, and then
all is blown to next Tuesday.
Nothing mends a broken relationship between shark
scientists like all their life’s work being destroyed in an instant by an
underwater monster. They kiss, zoom in
on Mrs. Scientists’ eye, and imply something with a CG shark, but I’m not sure
what. In the end,
nothing special here. Just blends
into the ocean of its genre. It’s sort
of like a $5 cigar. It’s not a 99 cent
cigarillo, but by no means is it a Cuban, not even an Acid. To the normal viewer, its trash, but to the B
movie fan, it’s mediocre.