Frog-g-g! (2004)

"Frog-g-g!" – love the silly title – is an extremely low budgeted and amateurish attempt at making a creature feature with a mutated animal species, like they made a bunch of them back in the gloriously decayed 1970's. All the clichés are there at the beginning. Some big shot multinational dumps its chemical waste in a picturesque lake and naturally the whole eco-system goes bonkers. The fish are developing five extra pairs of eyes, miniature creatures spontaneously develop itself and ordinary frogs turn into sexist monsters. There's a lesbian doctor investigating the strange occurrences, but meanwhile the frog- monster joyfully carries forward its rape and killing spree. Now, I personally don't care about the protagonists' sexual preference, but apparently the writers did as they epitomize the lesbian romance wherever they can. It's actually amazing how they insist on shoving the lesbian affection down our throats, like it's some sort of feminist statement. Since the lead girl is a lesbian, there naturally are also a lot of clichés and stereotypes to be found in "Frog-g-g!", like male sleaze balls that are sure to convert her and women that interpret literally everything offensively. Even more symbolic is the sequence where the frog monster knocks out the male half of a love-making couple and takes over the act. Ah, so the frog is merely just looking for a partner to mate with? Another male dominant freak who likes to oppress his power (= read penis) to poor female victims. Seriously, what's with the propaganda? It's just a horny toad in an amateurish nonsense film! Luckily enough the make-up effects and costumes are delightfully Z-grade and the acting performances are incredibly wooden, so that fans of bad horror flicks can still somewhat enjoy it without feeling the urge to castrate themselves.

I was truly looking forward to this title. It sounded and looked fun. The idea of someone making a cheesy 50s monster movie could have been worth a few laughs, but instead this title only bores. First off, there is almost no Froggg in the entire movie which is the biggest disappointment. I have to sit through 75+ minutes of lame drama and dialog to get a few glimpses of the Froggg humping a bare breasted chick. Why? On top of that the film lacks any sort of fun plot. I mean give me something thats a bit more interesting than just a bunch of talking heads. I wanted to see some hot chicks search for the creature in the swamp, I wanted to see some cuties dragged off to his lair in desperate need of rescue (Creature from the Black Lagoon stuff), I wanted to see a few goofy action scenes of the Froggg going on a killing spree, or it maybe escaping a silly trap. Something exciting! Geez, have fun with it, be creative! Who wants to sit through endless and tiring dialog scenes in a creature flick? My advice to the filmmakers: Keep going, your concepts are good, but your execution needs to be a lot more inspired. Have some fun with the creature, put the humor in the action and most important...put more creature in a creature movie!!!

Frog-g-g!: 5/10: Frog-g-g is slightly better than the average nature gone wild remake that one usually finds on the Sci-Fi channel running in a movie marathon some rainy Saturday afternoon. (This, by the way, is damning with faint praise.) It has a good sense of fun about it, a real catchy theme song and lipstick lesbian sex scenes. It is also a missed opportunity that tries to do a couple of things and pretty much fails at all of them. For example the lead scientist character is a lesbian. She is played by Kristi Russell who does make a decent movie lesbian. (A movie lesbian is a hot chick who likes to make out with other hot chicks preferably when guys are watching. This should not be confused with non-movie lesbians who have mullets, beer guts, wear hockey jerseys and will kick you ass for looking at them twice.) While there are a couple of brief lesbian sex scenes they seem a bit sisterly. (I really don't mean this in a good way). There is some topless hugging and kissing but nothing that screams good exploitation.Well at least as a parody of 70's nature gone wild movies it works right? Nope. All the parts are here (The scientist hero, her girlfriend, the reluctant sheriff and the big bad industrialist who of course is both the lifeblood of this town and the sheriff's brother-in-law.), but the movie plays it much too straight for a good Airplane style parody. Everything else is downhill from there. The movie has no horror at all and considering the plot consists of a man-sized frog copulating with virgins the exploitation is disappointing. (I'm sorry but when one rents a cheap C-grade Humanoids from the Deep rip-off. One expects a hecatomb of nubile young flesh and gratuitous nudity to boot.)Nevertheless I'm a sucker for nature gone wild movies and movie lesbian sex, no matter how tame, has never hurt a film. Neither has a catchy theme song with the dancing Sleestak.

This was one great cheesy monster flick. Sort of like an updated, lower budgeted, tongue-in-cheek version of Humanoids From The Deep. You have a horny giant mutant frog, you have naked lesbians, you have action, a love story, everything.Okay, it was real low budget, but the acting wasn't too bad. They probably could have done with a little more money for the frog costume, maybe a few more mutant frogs, but for what they had they did a really good job.And the directing and editing were pretty good. Often with low budget flicks I get distracted by too many static camera long shots and bad pacing, but this film didn't suffer from either of those.If you liked Humandoids, if you groove on Troma, then you'll love this little fun movie.