Lavalantula (2015)

I watched this movie, and at first thought...OK Steve Gutenberg has made a movie..then I watched Lavalantula 2....then went back and started from the beginning.....total fun. The references to the Police Academy and Jurassic Park and various other movies was great. Big budget it is not, top notch effects it has not...but good clean fun...plenty of. Story line is as you might imagine a total flop...the acting was not taken seriously...the actors knew this was a TV movie and had fun with it. The plot center's around earthquakes, lava, and of course monsters...here they are lava breathing spiders. Special effects were..well cheesy and if you don't smile or chuckle with this movie...then you are not a movie fan. I gave it a high rating because it entertained the hell out of me. That's the whole point though right?

Now, I have seen worse than this, but, this was pretty dumb. Giant spiders, spitting lava?! How dumb can these movies get? I just don't see the entertainment in this movie. And, the people being chased by the spiders, aren't even scared! They act scared, but aren't really scared. Sure the special effects and visual effects are good, but the storyline sucks. And then there's the acting. Now I've seen worse acting on the Syfy channel, but this movie's actors still need to work on it. Not to mention the ending. The ending was worse than the rest of the movie. It could have been so much better. So, with all that said, this movie is a true embarrassment to Syfy and to all the other production companies that were involved. The problems here are poor storyline, bleak dialogue, bad acting, and just plain dumbness.

So you know when somethings so bad it actually starts being great fun. Well Lavalatua is that flick. A B movie that pretends to be nothing more. The great Steve Guttenburg and cast of police academy sending themselves up perfectly against an army of lava filled cgi tarantulas that are scary and funny in equal measure.So get the popcorn out and enjoy this daft but enjoyable little gem - not everything has to be Shakespeare.i hope we'll see more of Steve Guttenburg i always wondered about what happened to him after police academyChristian hope you like it

I admit that I watched the film out of morbid curiosity, and also because Steve Guttenberg was in it to be fair.How on Earth they managed to keep straight faces while making this baffles me. I imagine all the points where they cracked into laughter about how formulaic and absurd this film was probably ended up on the cutting room floor, but I imagine a gag reel for this would actually be more entertaining.In fairness, this is not the absolute worst film I have ever seen. The fact that the actors don't take their roles too seriously, that many lines are delivered like winks to the camera, actually make it tolerable.This is the point where I usually give you a run-down of the plot, but this time it will be very brief. A volcano goes off near Los Angeles and giant fire-breathing spiders jump out and start killing people. Guttenberg spends the whole film trying to get to his son (Noah Hunt who seemed to take it all far too seriously). That's pretty much it.If you're expecting this Syfy TV movie to have breathtaking effects, what planet are you living on? If you're expecting it to have an original or engaging plot, again you're going to be disappointed.So what is good about it? It is amusing, filled with cinematic pop culture references. And provided you're not expecting much, it delivers. In fact I almost can't wait for the sequel '2 Lava 2 Lantula'.Sorry the review is so short, but there isn't anything else to say really. It's a mildly amusing film that you may laugh along with if you don't take it at all seriously. Having seen the film, I can't see how you could.