Very Cool!!!

Good idea lost in the noise

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Just one of many new, lower-budgeted B-movies, designed to resemble the classic '50s monster movies of old and generally involving some creature or monster animated by the spanking new process of CGI. OCTOPUS is a travesty, a moronic movie full of brainless characters, appalling dialogue and more holes than a lump of Swiss cheese. Yet, it remains oddly enjoyable. Why, I wonder? The pacing is fast, for a start, and the plot is a chock with action. Not content with just providing a straightforward giant monster movie, the writer throws in an action-thriller angle involving a major terrorist being transported to America on board the submarine. You know, just like in TURBULENCE, PASSENGER 57, and two dozen other movies from the '90s.Sadly the terrorist angle of the plot is more annoying than anything, due to the hero's reluctance to kill the man. On numerous occasions he is quite in his rights to shoot the man dead – after all, the terrorist kills about a dozen people (off screen), has blown up nine embassies, and is a real creep. But our wimpish, loathsome, baby-faced hero just can't bring himself to pull the trigger. The fourth time this happens is extremely aggravating. So the terrorist – played by overacting Russian actor Ravil Issyanov – is kept alive, despite the rest of the crew dying.The story is pathetic and rips off about ten movies as it goes along. In fact everything that happens is a cliché and there is not one surprise to be had. To tie up loose plot ends they just blow up stuff in big, cheesy, unrealistic CGI explosions. Speaking of CGI, the octopus itself is very fake-looking, just like the computer animation that it is. Even the epic scenes at the end of it attacking the (CGI) cruise liner are just poor despite their scale. Check out the ALIEN-inspired extendable mouth on the beast, just another unrealistic element of an already ludicrous movie.Jay Harrington actually seems to be a halfway decent actor. It's just a shame his lead character is such a lousy coward that the audience will be willing him to die. David Beecroft is the stereotypical captain, suicidal and failed, who redeems himself by acts of heroism. Then there's Carolyn Lowery as a marine biologist. We're introduced to Lowery as she plays strip poker with the crew, later on she is required by the plot to strip to her underwear on numerous occasions. No nudity, of course, this being a PG-13 film, but she's there solely to give the film some glamour content. Other token characters include crew members who suffer breakdowns and commit suicide or flee (such drama doesn't really belong in a supposedly cheap and cheerful B-movie) and the black guy who gets unsurprisingly killed.Other amusing incidents in the film include: bad guys taking over a cruise liner (easier than you think) just so they can rescue the terrorist from the sub; the octopus searching the sub for food without the sub actually flooding; and the numerous cliff-hanger situations that are resolved unrealistically and without any intelligence. OCTOPUS is a film where the writer treats the audience as idiots and makes little effort to tie everything together. Instead he is happy to throw in more clichés to wring out every little bit of drama and excitement. In fact the best bit of the film is the chase scene which opens it; ironically it has nothing to do with octopuses (octupii?) or mutated monsters. Check out the last shot, which shows the hero has escaped from an underwater explosion despite the fact we saw him crash the submersible into it seconds before and there being no possible way for him to be alive.

A solid, and I do mean a solid 5/10. This one isn't as bad as many say it is. It's rating on here is abominably low, yet there are far more worse recent B-monstermovies out there. I mean, come on, people: it's a movie about a giant mutant octopus. Is anybody expecting Oscar-material here? I do admit it takes a while to finally see Octopussy in all its glory (about halfway through the movie there's a few shots, and it's big!), but the last 15 minutes (octopus vs. cruise-ship) are just pure B-monster-movie greatness! It even has a frozen frame at the end that should not have been there (except for keeping a B-movie tradition alive).

Of all the bad Hollywood productions this movie makes my top ten list. It's quite surprising that this piece of crap resulted in a movie that got even bought by a German TV station and some sorry desperate wanna bes even dubbed this masterpiece of awfulness. The cast consists of absolute losers and who is this clown who directed this? No need to say more, it's as if George W. Bush or some Scientology fanatic sat in the director's chair. Don't even bother to waste a minute of your time to watch this idiotic piece. Oh, and now IMDb wants me to write at least ten lines in order to get this review published... But I've said everything I got to say....

I guest most of you have never heard of this and keep it that way (lol). This has to be one of the most silly movies I have seen.The Plot of the movie During the Cuban Missle Crisis, a Russian sub is sunk while en route to Havana. As the sub goes down, the hold is breached and barrels full of some mysterious substance tumble out. Years later, an American nuclear submarine is transporting a captured terrorist to the States. The terrorist's henchmen, however, are planning to hijack the sub and rescue their leader. Meanwhile, a large, unidentified creature is approaching the sub at high speed.The whole movie is about unknown creature, I Wonder what that could be?Well the TITLE is a big give away,! and the worst of all beside the horrible acting is and we Only see Ginat Octopous once near the end, who ends up killing the terrorist the only part I really likedif you are thinking seeing this movie just fast forward to the best part of movie that is the last 10-15 minutes of movie.3/10 just for ending