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Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. It was a fun movie, but just fell flat in being funny, scary or even interesting. I liked it a little & really wished it was more.I wanted to like this a lot more than I did. It was a fun movie, but just fell flat in being funny, scary or even interesting. I liked it a little & really wished it was more.

Timid ordinary schmo white collar office worker Jeff (a solid and likable performance by Kyle Davis) discovers that he's the last living relative of legendary horror scribe H.P. Lovecraft. Entrusted with an ancient relic, Jeff, his sarcastic best friend Charlie (a delightfully impudent portrayal by Devin McCann, who also wrote the witty script), and their hopelessly nerdy pal Paul (essayed to hysterically geeky perfection by Barak Hardley) have to stop the monstrous god Cthulhu from awakening and bring about the end of world.Director Henry Saine and screenwriter McCann poke affectionate fun at Lovecraft's beloved Cthulhu mythos in a winningly fresh, breezy, and, most importantly, even respectful manner: The amusing sense of inspired zany humor gets milked for maximum belly laughs, the three main characters are quite engaging and thus easy to root for, the entertainingly wacky story unfolds at a constant quick pace, and there's plenty of outrageous gore as well as a neat array of gnarly monsters. Gregg Lawrence almost steals the whole show with his lively turn as the loony Captain Olaf. Ethan Wilde also excels as Cthulhu's ruthless top general Starspawn. Cameron Cannon's crisp widescreen cinematography provides a wealth of funky visuals, with the animated sequence that supplies background information on Cthulhu rating as a definite nifty highlight. Michael Tavera's robust shivery score hits the spirited shuddery spot. A complete riot.

Honestly,I split a gut several times laughing at this B-Movie style piece. Forget the Lovecraft Afficionados who would condemn this to the ash-heap of film history. It has several very funny scenes and lots of gag that spoof the very people who are writing those bad reviews.Two geeky slackers who don't even know when a pretty girl(Sanjuta Day) is propositioning them are stuck in an endless number of work-days performing meaningless tasks in their cubicle-bounded world. All of a sudden one of them - a Last Lovecraft Descendant - gets called upon to somehow keep the nefarious Cult of Cthulu from reuniting the two halves of a lost relic that will allow Great Cthulu to rise again from his sunken city and take over the world.The rest of the movie details their floundering attempts to do same whilst surviving all kinds of one-liners, spoofed characters, silly situations - and a fair amount of gore. Special FX are minimal and the movie pretty much goes downhill slowly in plot and sensibility as the movie proceeds.Nonetheless, I repeatedly found myself laughing out loud at the silly gags and very funny characters they run in to. It has little to do with Lovecraft other than hijacking his name and some of his monsters but it is still worth a watch fer sure. There is some gore and there's a lot of language such as f-bombs too. There's also a lot of sly satire at the expense of the various characters - For example, a pitiful half-man/half-fish is kept alive by one of the Good Guys by sprinkling tropical fish food into his drooling mouth. You get the idea. Six stars for the laughs only but worth a watch.-Rock_Bustin

As anyone exposed to even ONE of Lovecraft's weird horror tales will recall, the great bulk of these stories are set and play off all the coarse, deformed distant off-shoots of the white people who descended upon Massachusetts a ship or two after the Mayflower. These people, whose ancestors were indentured servants (or white slaves) to the Mayflower folks, were forced to inbreed to produce subsequent generations of tools for rich folks, as the Puritans were too snooty and uppity to intermarry with poor peons. Eventually, according to Lovecraft, they went back down the evolutionary ladder enough rungs to attract the amorous attentions of the debauched progeny of various pre-human intelligent life forms long relegated to existence deep underground or in the ocean depths. For anyone who has seen the genetic decay evident even today in the boondocks of Massachusetts (and certain sections of Greater Boston, as well), Lovecraft's tales still ring true. However, uprooted from gloomy New England to sunny southern California, they're totally laughable (a result which LAST LOVECRAFT writer\producer Devin McGinn and "star"\cast-and-crew-caterer Kyle Davis may have been shooting for). Unfortunately, every minute of this movie elevates the duct-tape anchored skits in BE KIND, REWIND to the level of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION by way of contrast. A few homophobic jokes, crude cartoons, clumsy costumes, cheesy "special" effects, grandparents reading lines (badly), and stolen literary allusions do not an entertaining movie make. Chalk this effort up as A LOVECRAFT TOO FAR: REJECT OF CTHULHU!