Movie Review: Mega Python vs. Gatoroid

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid
Starring: Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, A Martinez, Kathryn Joosten, Micky Dolenz
Director: Mary Lambert
The Asylum, Syfy, USA, 2011.

Dr. Nikki Riley (Debbie Gibson) and her animal rights activists steal pythons and release them into Florida swamps at Everglades. Ranger Terry O'Hara (Tiffany) is not granting alligator hunting permits this year because the number of gators is declining. One python is killed while eating a dog. Then the pythons start to kill alligators. Terry wants the hunters to kill the snakes. Dr. Riley and the environmentalists protest.

Angie and Terry

That's a big snake

DIego sees giant reptiles

Terry's fiancé Justin (Carey Van Dyke) goes with the hunters and snakes kill Justin. To get revenge Terry and her ranger friend Angie (Kathryn Joosten) give experimental anabolic steroids to alligators. What could go wrong? Well, What couldn't?

Gatoroid going for a snack

The snakes keep on getting bigger

Nikki has some evidence of doping giant alligators

Months later things have calmed down and Dr Diego Ortez (A Martinez) is studying the reptiles. He sees gigantic python killing a huge alligator. He suggest that Terry should cancel a fund raising event. Nikki's team is attacked by giant alligators and snakes eat some hunters. At the fund raising event Micky Dolenz (of 60s band Monkees) makes cameo appearance. Then the movie becomes a cat fight of Nikki vs Terry. 

Micky Dolenz at background

Epic cat fight

Gators and snakes have made truce

The gators and pythons crash the party. They have apparently made a truce and decided that it is easier to eat humans. Luckily it is USA so everyone has guns ready. Well, that doesn't work well so Nikki and Terry must co-operate to get rid of the monsters before they destroy the city. Then the movie gets epic! Python even eats a train!

Train in a a snake

Uneasy alliance

Asylum blimp!

The beasts are made using some horrible CGI. Some deaths are moderately gory but special effects are cheap and clumsy. The acting isn't quite as bad as usually in Asylum movies, especially the leading ladies do fine. The movie is entertaining with fun moments.

Debbie Gibson made also a catchy song "Snake Charmer" for the movie.

Also Tiffany made a southern rock style song "Serpentine"

Rating: Good (On the scale of bad monster movies)