Sea Beast

It's not often that you lose a member of your crew in this fishing village.  But for one captain, he loses his entire crew.  Just not all at once.  We have a long movie people!

 

The digital sea beast for this movie is a cross between The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Predator.  The sea beast, not the movie plot or dialog or action or any other similarities, just the sea beast.  The sea beast has the ability to camouflage itself to an almost invisible state.  It has a paralyzing venom that is also a toxin.  It also has a tongue that has enormous reach and strength.  If this were a better movie, everyone would have a plush sea beast on their mantle.

 

Captain Will is trying to make ends meet and can't catch any fish.  One of his hands just got taken overboard and now a second hand has gone missing getting the boat ready to go back out to sea.  A green goo is found on the pier and Ms. Arden, who is a biologist, helps Captain Will determine that it is a toxin that behaves much like a deep sea angler fish.  Only this fish can live out of the water.

 

The third crew member has taken Captain Will's daughter to "the island" to have a get away weekend.  The island is crawling with younger sea beasts.  The two of them manage to keep alive.  In one scene, the crew member (Danny) has the sea beast's tongue wrapped around his ankle and to save him, the daughter (Carly) drops a heavy stone on the tongue which forces the tongue to drag the sea beast's face into the stone.

 

The only other scene worth watching is when the Harbor Master, Barbara, gets her head bitten off by the momma sea beast.  Other than that, it's business as usual.  And they get to kill the sea beast.

 

It's not that scary of a movie and the story jumps between characters a lot.  I would have liked to have seen more action when the digital sea beast was on screen.  Or maybe a foam sea beast that the people can wrestle with or something.

 

I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 fishing vessels.