Kraa! the Sea Monster (1998)
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(Foreign Titles)
Nomination Year: 2011
SYNOPSIS: The movie is set primarily on Earth, but actually begins on The Cold Planet. The evil villainous Lord Doom is plotting to take over the galaxy. As an integral part of this plan, he sends the mighty Kraa! to the planet Earth, to wreak havoc (Kraa! is aquatic, although really the movie should be called Kraa! the Space Monster).
A group of teen do-gooders a dozen light years away from Earth, the Planet Patrol, finds out about this (their newest member (Alison Lohman) is psychic), but Lord Doom incapacitates their spacecraft, and they are unable to do anything except watch helplessly.
But ... wait! They have an agent in the vicinity. Mogyar is his name. They send him off to earth. He screws up his trajectory, and lands in New Jersey instead of Naples. When I say "lands," in this context I mean "crashes through the roof of a diner." He's found by the owner of said diner, and a biker who was eating dinner.
The Feds almost immediately show up. They capture our earth heroes ... and Mogyar.
Meanwhile, Kraa! rampages, in scenes which are eerily reminiscent of (and yet entirely inferior to) Zarkorr!'s rampages from Zarkorr! the Invader.
The Planet Patrol angsts. Lord Doom gloats. Kraa! rampages. The Feds are in turmoil. Our heroes escape.
They head off to a nuclear power plant, where they convince the scientists there to help build a weapon ... a weapon that Mogyar says might just maybe be capable of defeating Zarko-- I mean, Kraa!
The Feds intervene. The weapon gets fired anyway. The Planet Patrol sacrifices Mogyar's orbiting mothership, and siphons off enough power from the weapon to recharge their satellite's drained batteries. Then they let the nuclear-powered weapon defeat Kraa!. Typical teens.
Earth celebrates (huzzah!). The Planet Patrol goes off to The Cold Planet and captures Lord Doom. Life as we know it is saved, danger averted, and the film finally (after a mere yet simultaneously interminable sixty-something minutes) is over.
A group of teen do-gooders a dozen light years away from Earth, the Planet Patrol, finds out about this (their newest member (Alison Lohman) is psychic), but Lord Doom incapacitates their spacecraft, and they are unable to do anything except watch helplessly.
But ... wait! They have an agent in the vicinity. Mogyar is his name. They send him off to earth. He screws up his trajectory, and lands in New Jersey instead of Naples. When I say "lands," in this context I mean "crashes through the roof of a diner." He's found by the owner of said diner, and a biker who was eating dinner.
The Feds almost immediately show up. They capture our earth heroes ... and Mogyar.
Meanwhile, Kraa! rampages, in scenes which are eerily reminiscent of (and yet entirely inferior to) Zarkorr!'s rampages from Zarkorr! the Invader.
The Planet Patrol angsts. Lord Doom gloats. Kraa! rampages. The Feds are in turmoil. Our heroes escape.
They head off to a nuclear power plant, where they convince the scientists there to help build a weapon ... a weapon that Mogyar says might just maybe be capable of defeating Zarko-- I mean, Kraa!
The Feds intervene. The weapon gets fired anyway. The Planet Patrol sacrifices Mogyar's orbiting mothership, and siphons off enough power from the weapon to recharge their satellite's drained batteries. Then they let the nuclear-powered weapon defeat Kraa!. Typical teens.
Earth celebrates (huzzah!). The Planet Patrol goes off to The Cold Planet and captures Lord Doom. Life as we know it is saved, danger averted, and the film finally (after a mere yet simultaneously interminable sixty-something minutes) is over.
Kevin Hogan
Worst Special Effect
Aaron Osborne
