Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

What can I say for Plankton or known as Creatures from the Abyss I loved it..It reminded me of the good old days of late night cable TV on a Friday/Saturday night.Director Max Cerchi did a fantastic job directing a very cool Horror B film. What I liked about the story a young couple and their friends decide to go for a fun day at the beach take a trip on a small boat then run into trouble out in the middle of the ocean their boat is taking on water things look bad but luckily they come across an abandoned yacht boat, they go on board little do they know the looming is some kind of mutant crustacean danger that lies in their future. It seems that weird biological experiments were being conducted before the crew mysteriously vanished. Soon the horror ignites as the couple and friends begins to truly grasp the terror that awaits them when monstrous killer plankton come calling. I loved the cool special effects which included some interesting stop motion animation. Creatures from the Abyss" or Plankton has a lot of cool B-movie stuff. Special effects range from fair to outlandishly silly. It did make me laugh a few times.

Five teenagers -- bespectacled nerd Mike (Clay Rogers), his sweet fiancé Margaret (pretty brunette Sharon Twomey), obnoxious toolbox Bobby (Michael Bon), busty babe Julie (foxy blonde Ann Wolf), and her equally sexy sister Dorothy (fetching Laura di Palma) -- embark on a boating trip and wind up becoming seriously lost after they run afoul of a fierce storm. The quintet stumble across an abandoned yacht in the middle of the ocean with a mysterious biology lab on board it. Next thing you know the kids are being attacked by ferocious mutated prehistoric fish. Will any of them survive this harrowing ordeal? Boy, does this immensely messed-up movie possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a deliciously cheesy and often uproarious four-star stinkeroonie: simply atrocious (non)acting from a lame no-name cast, a totally ridiculous script that blatantly rips off such classic fright films as "Piranha," the '82 "The Thing" remake, and "The Evil Dead," hilariously horrendous dubbing, hopelessly inept (mis)direction, zero tension or creepy atmosphere, oodles of gross graphic gore (watch out for an especially revolting upchuck scene), insipid cardboard characters, cruddy (far from) special effects, laughably dumb dialogue ("Look, it's full of clothes," exclaims one gal after opening a closet), a generic hum'n'shiver synthesizer score, an insanely over-the-top conclusion, and, best of all, a gloriously tasteless scene in which Bobby transforms into a grotesque humanoid fishman beast while in the middle of doing just what you think with Julie. As a nice added bonus, both Wolf and di Palma spend the entire film wearing skimpy bikinis or less. "This is all absurd," Mike proclaims at one point in the picture -- and indeed that's exactly why this sublimely tacky trash rates highly as a completely sidesplitting unintentional laugh riot from start to finish.

OK this is probably a good film but i found an English dubbed version! its pointless watching it unless you want laughable dialogue esp when bobby finds the drugs!! this film sucks i really would like to see it with subtitles the acting i think will be much better. The rubber killer fish are funny. and the professor is well what can i say? like this line ''proffeser how long have you been f******g fish?'' ''they were old enough'' i don't know if that line is in the original language version. this film is not gory apart from little bits here and there by no means on the lines of gore from Italy I'm use to. the best bit the sex scene were Bobby turns into a fish monster really funny

Plankton, or Creatures from the Abyss as I'm positive it's more commonly known as & filmed under as the title Creatures from the Abyss appears over a moving image & in the same font type as the rest of the credits, starts with five 20 something kids, Mike (Clay Rogers) his girlfriend Margaret (Sharon Twomey), sisters Julie (Ann Wolf) & Dorothy (Loren DePalm) & an annoying idiot named Bobby (Michael Bon) whom decide to all fit into a small rubber boat & head out to sea, don't ask why as I don't know. Oh & the complete idiot Bobby left the petrol behind & never thought to tell anyone so it comes as no great surprise that they end up stranded out at sea without any petrol for the motor & to make matters worse they become trapped in a thunder storm & discover a dead body floating in the water. Shortly after their luck seems to change when they come across a yacht & potential safety, in a flash everyone boards the yacht & begin to explore. First of all they find a scientific lab with various fish specimens & computer equipment, then down below they find fully furnished & luxurious cabins. They find a chemist (Deran Sarafian) who appears mad & can't talk. They eat fish from the fridge which makes Dorothy puke up green vomit, beetles & slugs. They learn that these fish are living fossil's 1000's of years old & have been contaminated by toxic waste dumped in the sea & that they fly, mutate, bite & are generally unpleasant to be around. I really can't be bothered to go on with this plot outline so I won't, here's what I think...This Italian production was produced & directed by Massimiliano Cerchi under the pseudonym Al Passeri (I'd hide under a different name if I made a film this bad too) & I think Plankton is quite simply one of the worst films ever, there are so many things wrong with this film it's difficult to know where to start. First the script by Richard Baumann is total crap, it makes no sense whatsoever & is so slow & dull it was torture for me to sit through. Why would five people just simply set sail for the middle of the ocean on a rubber dinghy barely big enough to fit them all in? What were they planning on doing exactly? Why do we often get point-of-view shots from these fish creatures but they seem to be totally invisible to the characters as they are never shown on screen even though they are right next to a character, & how do these fish get around the boat as there is no water for them to swim in? People's actions & reactions to things are all wrong, they constantly split up, they make bizarre decisions that simply don't make any sense in the situation they find themselves in & some of the dialogue is as awful as anything I've heard. I could go on all day about all the plot holes & ridiculous goings on but I'll run out of space if I do. The fish creatures themselves look awful, a mixture of rubbish rubber puppets & some really bad stop motion animation at the end, the scenes where they interact with the human cast also look terrible with some bad super imposition. I have heard a lot of comments saying that Plankton is gory, don't make me laugh! Forget it there is virtually no blood or gore in Plankton whatsoever, there are a couple of slimy scenes when Bobby transforms into a fish monster while having sex with Julie but it's pretty brief & he doesn't kill her, he just sort of drips slime on her, grows a couple of tentacles & a fish head comes out of his mouth. Later on Julie's vagina starts to drip some dark slime but that's it, we never get to actually see what happens to her or what the slime is. Dorothy has a fish creature come out of her back, off screen, & control her but again we never get to see what happens to her while Margaret commits suicide, a very brief shot of a plastic harpoon stuck to her forehead. Easily the grossest scene is when Dorothy pukes up that green stuff with what looks like beetles & slugs in it. That's it, only one person actually dies on screen & for the most part Plankton is quite tame & as exciting as watching paint dry & I nearly fell asleep it's so boring. I can't see how anybody can like this total crap, I just can't. The acting is awful, the dubbing is awful, the characters are awful & I hated all of them. Tecnically Plankton is predictably crap as well, with an estimated budget of only $250,000 all I can say is where did the money go? The sets are monotonous & dull with one lab & a few cabins, the special effect's are bottom of the barrel stuff including the most fake looking exploding boat ever, the cinematography is bland, the music sucks there is zero atmosphere or tension & as a whole Plankton, like it's name sake, is as low in the food chain as it could possibly be. I hate Plankton, it's awful in every single aspect of it's overlong 86 minute duration. Do yourself a favour & avoid this one at all costs unless your either a masochist or insomniac.