Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center--which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more i... (Full plot summary below)
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Ramon the alligator is flushed down the toilet as a baby and grows into a gargantuan monster by eating the corpses of laboratory animals who have undergone dubious hormone experiments, thus providing all the ecological and social subtext that one could possibly wish for, even if one doesn't normally go for films about giant alligators eating people left, right, and center--which is the inevitable and tragic result of Ramon's decision that the outside world looks rather more interesting than the sewers....
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| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottA very funny meditation on the old ''what happens when you flush the goldfish down the john?'' nightmare. It is also a formula film that simultaneously demonstrates the specific requirements of the formula while sending them up with good humor. |
| Den of GeekJim KnipfelAlthough the film was made and released with no studio backing, both Teague and Sayles came out of the Corman School, and used those lessons to knock Alligator a notch above the usual killer animal fare. |
| NewsweekCharles MichenerEnjoyable, but this croc-fest is no Lake Placid. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyOne of the joys of the formula film is that if you wait long enough, everything comes full circle, and because most formula films are short, you don't wait long at all. |
| VarietyVariety StaffDumb as it is, director Lewis Teague brings some plusses to the pic. Robert Forster, as a detective, and Riker are amiable leads, never taking the film too seriously. Tech credits are cheap but serviceable. |
| Slant MagazineEric HendersonLewis Teague is only too willing to hand over the entire project to Sayles's hunger for allegorical subplots. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertI suggest a plan: Why not try flushing this movie down the toilet to see if it also grows into something big and fearsome? |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergJohn Sayles' screenplay mixes monster flick mayhem with a whole lot of wit. |
| Juicy CerebellumAlex SandellPretty good, as far as these gigantic Alligator things go. |
| User ReviewJeffrey MAn underrated horror film. An alligator gets flushed down the toilet and grows to be a big alligator and terrorizes L.A..A great film starring Robert Forster and Robin Riker. |
