Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep

The Kraken is a legendary sea monster that may have been confused with a giant squid.  It doesn't have to be a six armed sea creature that terrorizes Greeks.  However, I will always think of the kraken being released by Poseidon whenever I think of the kraken.  You can think of the squid.

Here is the short, short version of the story: girl needs to find a rock and a mask, gets help from a hunky guy, they meet a bad guy along the way, squid food, dead squid.  Digital squid aside, this movie lacks a lot.  At first when I saw the first victim get thrashed about by the squid, I thought things would be okay.  And even the second and third victims.  The third victim even gets decapitated.  But after the third victim meets the squid, it is a long time before any real action happens.

I was bored with this movie real quick.  Lack of blood.  Lack of digital squid.  Lack of a good story.  And even when they tried to sex it up and have a woman in a bikini, it still wasn't all that sexy.

What's his name from Glee is in this movie.  Yes.  I watch Glee.  Is that so wrong?  Of course it is, what am I thinking.

I give this movie 0 out 5 calamari dinners.

Eye of the Beast

Most movies that I have seen with large digital threats have an unexplained "expert" who just happens to be on the scene.  At least provides a small reason for the expert to be in the movie.  Too bad the expert is James Van Der Beek and every time that he shows up on the screen I silently sing to myself, "I don't want to wait ...."

 

What we are dealing with is a large squid that has been eating all of the fish (and a few humans) near the fishing village by Fells Island.  Dawson, who's name in this movie is Dr. Dan Leland, shows up on behalf of the National Oceanographic Research Agency to collect data on why the fish may be disappearing.  He teams up with Katrina, who is the local officer for the Department of Lakes and Fisheries, and one of the fishing vessels so he can gather his data.

 

The locals have their own opinion on why the fish have vanished.  The native-Americans think that the "white man" has over fished the area and the others are blaming the native-Americans because they do not need permits.  While each of those groups argue, more people go missing and more limbs keep turning up as evidence.

 

The groups have to ultimately work together to nab the creature.  Which the squid conveniently comes out of the water to have a harpoon, connected with an electrical line, penetrate its eye and electrocute the beast.  However, it's not all digital tentacles during the movie.  Which does help the "realism" of some of the scenes.

 

Of course Dawson falls for Katrina and with the squid now defeated, they can begin to explore a relationship.  Isn't that lovely.  Awww.

 

So predicable.

 

As far as B movies go, it didn't have a lot of violence or mystery or intrigue.  The movie is nothing more than a handful of people trying to make things right for the other handful of people that were attacked by giant foam tentacles.  Not much to see here.

 

I give this movie 1 out of 5 squid t-shirts.