Savage Planet

Calling this abomination bad doesn't do it justice. It's beyond bad, it's downright Ed Wood. Action scenes which look like they were filmed by some kid with a handycam in his back yard. Horrible junky props. Special effects which are so incredibly awful you laugh out loud at them.

I gave it a two, and it only scored that high because they at least managed to find a good-looking cast, and the first one to die wasn't who I expected.

If (like me) you don't mind watching the occasional garbage movie just to see how bad things can get, this is worth a view. Everybody else should run away.

I have watched large portions of this movie twice now, and am puzzling over what the purpose of it was. I mainly watched it because Lou D. Philips is listed in the cast, but as far as I could tell, he was nowhere to be found in it. Did I miss something? Otherwise, it has the world's worst cast of generic actors imaginable fighting big bears on a remote planet. Horrible. At one point early on, a woman runs away from one of these big bears and the folks back at camp stand and listen to her scream for help. Suddenly. her head comes rolling into the camp, right up to their feet. But the gal was supposedly quite a distance from camp by then, so all I can think is that bear must have one hell of an arm. I didn't even have to look to know this was a Canadian job. Everybody is doggoned serious. If it were a Hollywood hack job, it would at least be campy.

We all know that a movie billed as a "SciFi Channel Original" is pretty much guaranteed to be terrible. But in a galaxy of terrible movies, this is about the worst I have seen. Worse than "The Bone Snatcher." Even worse than "Dog Soldiers." When I saw the ads for it, I thought it looked like it might be along the lines of "The Legacy of Heorot," an excellent Larry Niven sci-fi action adventure novel. Not even remotely like it, unfortunately.

Let's put it this way: No story. No acting. No production values. Not even any interesting action sequences. The only, and I must emphasize ONLY, thing that raises this from a 1 to a 2 is that Reagan Pasternak ("Allison") looks rather nice in a few scenes.

Hey, I knew it would be bad going in...but no way did I ever expect anything this bad.

Yet another Sci Fi movie where anything can happen and does.You want to travel to a planet millions of light years away? Easy-just get yourself a teleporter like you saw in The Fly fill the movie with technical jargon which makes no sense to the layman and you are half way there.On Planet Oxygen. The people selected to go there are actually the 2nd to make the trip-the first lot never came back. They go one at a time by standing on a sort of platform inside the teleporter and a couple of seconds later are on the planet-which in this case is like the Garden of Eden. The last person to arrive turns into mincemeat as the idea of the Fly makes it presence felt-seems there was a "glitch" caused inside the teleporter caused by a foreign object-maybe it was a fly! First thing you wonder as you watch this codswallop is what are they eating but they haven't been there 5 minutes before they start killing! I mean harmless friendly looking bears who only wanted stroking. However it probably solved the food problem as they were seen cooking. Nice touch there-a clean planet with no smoke is already being polluted! And so it goes on-the sound of bullets the discovery of a skull-that of the first visitor- and all in all a pretty unsatisfactory ending where you hoped the bears would surround them and kill them all off. And that was it

Now, given that this movie was made for the Sci-Fi Network (now the SyFy Network), and that I had previously seen a number of other movies made for this network - all of them being terrible - my expectations were very low when I sat down to watch "Savage Planet". But I was just *stunned* by how bad this Canadian-American co-production was. The special effects are some of the worst I've ever seen in a movie, using real cheap CGI that looks nothing like real life. But the movie also has a stupid script, with a story that just has the protagonists moving around for most of the movie, alien animal life that looks exactly like grizzly bears on earth (and apparently ONLY grizzly bears - no other animals are seen in the entire movie!) The actors apparently knew they were in a turkey, because no one even tries to give a good performance. I know that the movie might sound like some kind of a camp classic, but it is simply so bad it's bad. It actually makes some other SyFy network movies look decent by comparison!