Dante's Peak (1997)

This is essentially the same plot as Jaws, but with a volcano standing in for the shark. Stupid town officials don't listen to the warnings of a scientist and boy will they regret it!

This is a great movie. I've seen it more times than I can remember. It's 2018 and I still get anxious and upset when they go across the lake in the boat and the grandmother jumps out to save them; when Ruffie jumps in the truck; when they get in the cave and when Pierce gets stuck in the truck and turns on R2D2 and it beeps. :) lol It's a Classic for me.

Dante's Peak is a great movie. It is about a volcanologist named Harry who learns of unrest at a volcano in the Cascades called Dante's Peak. (Dante's Peak is a fictional volcano.) He goes there and meets the mayor of the town and her children and studies the volcano and comes to the conclusion that it is building to an eruption. The other scientists are skeptical of that until it's too late. The volcano erupts and the mayor's kids go to get they're grandmother because she didn't leave her house on the volcano. The mayor and Harry go to get the kids and they all leave the grandmother's house. That's all I'll say about the story. The movie's got great special effects and it's scary.

Hello there, I am reviewing the movie, Dante's Peak. I watched this movie in my year 10 Geography class. Before watching this movie in, I had watched this movie more than twice with my family. It was a long time ago so I cannot remember. Now on to the review. This is a personally one of my favourite movie. I thought Pierce Brosnan (Mamma Mia) and Linda Hamilton (Terminator) were brilliant!! At the start of the movie I thought it was sad. It is where Pierce's character's (Harry Dalton) girlfriend got hit by a pyroclast that had pierced through the car, and had died. I quite liked the part of the plot were Linda's character (Rachel Wando), who was the mayor and a coffee shop owner, came around to the motel where Harry and his team where staying, to give them coffee and Greg (Grant Heslov) came bounding out yelling ,"Coffee, Coffee, Coffee, Cappuccino!" I laughed so hard at that part. That saddest part of the movie was were Granny Ruth (Elizabeth Hoffman) died, trying to save Rachel, Harry and the kids from a lake that had turned into a giant pool of acid. They were travelling across the lake when the acid starts to eat the boat and it starts to sink, so Ruth jumps into the lake and pulls the boat to the side of the lake. The part of the movie where I thought it was unrealistic when they drove over the lave and the wheels of the truck ,they stole, burst into flames but I think the extreme heat from the lava would at least exploded the gas tank of the car resulting in the explosion of the car. I think the real star of the movie was the volcano because I caused the most mayhem. All together I really like this movie. I would watch this move about ten more times before I got sick of it. The rating for this movie would be 9 out of 10.