Mega Snake? More like Mega Turkey... Rating 3 *** This comment may contain spoilers *** Mega Snake is set in a small town in East Tennessee where Les Daniels (Michael Shanks) works as a paramedic & lives on a chicken farm with his old mum & his brother Duff (John T. Woods) who happens to be a snake wrangling Christian preacher. Don't ask. While searching for some snakes to wrangle Duff visits some native Indian dude who has this really evil snake in a jar, according to the native Indian dude this snake is the last of it's kind & is evil. Duff steals it. Later that night Duff knocks the jar it's trapped in off a table & it breaks on the floor releasing the evil snake which then eats all the family pets & chickens & starts growing at an incredible rate. Before long this once small harmless looking snake has turned into a Mega Snake! Scary eh? It's up to Les & local female Sheriff Erin (Siri Baruc) to save the town from the Mega Snake that seems to have an insatiable appetite for human beings...
Directed by Tibor Takács this awful 'Creature Feature' is yet again another monstrosity from the Nu Image & Sci-Fi Channel stable that brought us such 'classics' like Shark Attack (1999), Crocodile (2000), Octopus (2002), Rats (2003), The Snake King (2005) & their recent masterpiece Shark in Venice (2008) amongst countless sequels & other terrible films. I won't beat about the bush here & I will be blunt & simply say that Mega Snake is another awful by-the-numbers generic 'Creature Feature' of the most moronic & stupid kind that defies any real logical or analytical attempts to understand it. The plot doesn't make any sense, I mean this last living snake in a jar that can grow to an enormous length for no apparent reason is as deep & meaningful as it gets. The character's are the usual clichéd cardboard cutouts like the local Sheriff, a couple of farmers, a bit of comedy relief & a typical bad guy who refuses to believe in the existence of the giant snake. The start of this is a Gremlins (1984) rip-off as a mysterious shopkeeper with an unusual animal discusses three golden rules you must not break which invariably Duff does & which even more invariably lead to death & destruction. He deserved to get eaten. In fact everyone in Mega Snake deserves to get eaten. While I'm at it I also think everyone involved with the making of Mega Snake deserve to get eaten too. The plot is very predictable & you can guess who will live, who will die & who the heroes are.
The CGI computer effects in these cheap made-for-telly 'Creature Features' are usually terrible & while Mega Snake doesn't have the worst effects ever they aren't exactly impressive. If I was being generous I would the CGI effects on the Mega Snake are better than one might expect but that's not any sort of praise in it's own right. There's a bit of gore including some guts, some blood splatter, a crushed head & a skinned goat. If you like these sorts of 'Creature Features' then Mega Snake might appeal to you although I thought it was terrible & to add to my misery Mega Snake was the second awful 'Creature Feature' I have endured in the space of two days after I watched the even worse Sabretooth (2002) a couple of nights ago.
Although set in the US in Tenessee this was actually filmed in Sofia in Bulgaria in Eastern Europe. At least the American cast got a free holiday. The cast sucks but does include Michael Shanks who appeared in nearly 200 episodes of Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007) although I personally have never even seen one episode of it.
Mega Snake is yet another terrible Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' with awful CGI effects, a plot that makes no sense & all the clichés & problems of the genre in abundance mean Mega Snake is a Mega Turkey.
Directed by Tibor Takács this awful 'Creature Feature' is yet again another monstrosity from the Nu Image & Sci-Fi Channel stable that brought us such 'classics' like Shark Attack (1999), Crocodile (2000), Octopus (2002), Rats (2003), The Snake King (2005) & their recent masterpiece Shark in Venice (2008) amongst countless sequels & other terrible films. I won't beat about the bush here & I will be blunt & simply say that Mega Snake is another awful by-the-numbers generic 'Creature Feature' of the most moronic & stupid kind that defies any real logical or analytical attempts to understand it. The plot doesn't make any sense, I mean this last living snake in a jar that can grow to an enormous length for no apparent reason is as deep & meaningful as it gets. The character's are the usual clichéd cardboard cutouts like the local Sheriff, a couple of farmers, a bit of comedy relief & a typical bad guy who refuses to believe in the existence of the giant snake. The start of this is a Gremlins (1984) rip-off as a mysterious shopkeeper with an unusual animal discusses three golden rules you must not break which invariably Duff does & which even more invariably lead to death & destruction. He deserved to get eaten. In fact everyone in Mega Snake deserves to get eaten. While I'm at it I also think everyone involved with the making of Mega Snake deserve to get eaten too. The plot is very predictable & you can guess who will live, who will die & who the heroes are.
The CGI computer effects in these cheap made-for-telly 'Creature Features' are usually terrible & while Mega Snake doesn't have the worst effects ever they aren't exactly impressive. If I was being generous I would the CGI effects on the Mega Snake are better than one might expect but that's not any sort of praise in it's own right. There's a bit of gore including some guts, some blood splatter, a crushed head & a skinned goat. If you like these sorts of 'Creature Features' then Mega Snake might appeal to you although I thought it was terrible & to add to my misery Mega Snake was the second awful 'Creature Feature' I have endured in the space of two days after I watched the even worse Sabretooth (2002) a couple of nights ago.
Although set in the US in Tenessee this was actually filmed in Sofia in Bulgaria in Eastern Europe. At least the American cast got a free holiday. The cast sucks but does include Michael Shanks who appeared in nearly 200 episodes of Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007) although I personally have never even seen one episode of it.
Mega Snake is yet another terrible Sci-Fi Channel 'Creature Feature' with awful CGI effects, a plot that makes no sense & all the clichés & problems of the genre in abundance mean Mega Snake is a Mega Turkey.