Tasmanian Devil Synopsis: Danica McKellar (“The Wonder Years,” “The West Wing”) and Olympic speed skating champion Apolo Ohno take on a deadly mythical beast in the new Syfy Saturday Original Movie “Tasmanian Devil.”
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What does this say about our educational system....or better yet, McKellar? Geez, in the first 10 minutes, a monstrous thing rips the door off her vehicle and takes away her coworker. She tells her cuffed passengers to stay in the vehicle while she and another runs after the thing so she can "kill it." In the next few frames, she tells the guy to "RUN!" Duh.Maybe before graduating college McKellar should have given her future some thought. Then she wouldn't have ended up in the Siffy hall of Shame, making horrible junk like this.The bad accents that come and go: the tight outfits that certainly help McKellar to run from the killer Devils (and show where her brains ended up: the sad CGI: unbelievably bad scriptwriting: really bad acting from all involved....Now, you have a Siffy movie!
Some young(-ish) explorer types fall foul of vicious creatures in Tasmania and are forest rangers are on hand as additional monster bait.Lets put to one side the fact that, apart from the name (and pretending to be in Tasmania), this film has nothing to do with Australia's neighbouring island, nor the wildlife which one would expect to encounter on it. A cast of unknowns compete not to be chewed and generally mangled by some CGI critters. There are assorted gory physical effects, some of which are well done. There are CGI monsters which vary from very well done to execrable. The camera work is steady.But I don't think I would recommend this.
Three forest rangers in Tasmania stumble across a group of base jumpers who are in the park illegally . They frantically tell the rangers that one of their team has been killed in a cave by something and that something is still in the cave . What ever killed their colleague is hostile and it's not alone If I'd seen TASMANIAN DEVILS a few weeks ago I would have dismissed it as yet more brainless clichéd fodder from the SyFy Channel but I still had a sense of disappointment from a recent trip to the cinema where I watched WORLD WAR Z which cost me £7.80 to watch and Paramount Studios $200 million to produce . I'm guessing in terms of production TD cost closer to the rice of my cinema ticket than WWZ . One very common and vocal criticism of the Pitt epic was the conspicuous lack of blood and gore , along with a lack of suspense . It says something that despite all the money thrown at it TD is slightly more effective as a suspense driven horror movie TD beats out the brain dead undead epic spectacle of WORLD WAR Z Don't get me wrong I'm not for a second claiming TD is some sort of lost underlooked gem just waiting to be discovered by a wider audience because it's not . It's merely a low budget horror movie featuring sketchily drawn characters played by a journeyman cast hiding out in dark remote woodland and stalked by hostile viscous creatures . The clichés come thick and fast but what the film does it does relatively well . It also contains a bit more blood and guts you'd expect in this type of TVM and an early death with a character impaled is genuinely shocking . Perhaps if the production team of WWZ studied this film - which coincidentally features monsters attracted to sound - in depth their own film might have been better received by critics
As a resident of Tasmania, this is the biggest load of crap I've seen in a long time. Parks personnel may carry guns in Canada, but not here. Nor do they dress like a Dr. Hook wannabe. There are female rangers and most of them can find a shirt that fits. Don't get me started on the background of deciduous trees and what appear to be fake ferns, certainly not Man ferns or Dicksonia Antarctica appear commonly in the bush. If you're going to make a movie like this at least some of it should be believable. I don't know if anyone associated with this film has ever been to Tassie, but I doubt it. If they have, they should have paid more attention. I can't watch anymore as I fear for the safety of my TV.