Friday, April 12, 2013

I Can't Believe I Watched the Whole Thing! : ) "Tremors 4"



Putting the "wild" into Wild West!

The Story:

Welcome to the town of Rejection Nevada.  It's 1889, and the silver mine is booming...until suddenly something starts eating the miners!  Coming out west from back east is the mine's owner, Hiram Gummer (Michael Gross), a proper gentlemen who's never handled a weapon, much yet used one.  These graboids are much smaller, but no less deadly.  It's up to Hiram and a small group of townsfolk that seems eerily familiar to save the town, and their lives.

And with that, the series comes full circle with an introduction of how everything came to be.

Tremors, the movie, was never out to be anything other than a fun B movie.  Milking the franchise for all it was worth, the studio delivered with 3 sequels, that never quite measured up to the fun and chaos of the first, but each had its own unique quality and charm.

It worked by never taking itself too seriously, nor ever lampooning itself in the process.

Instead, they took the franchise a step forward with each sequel, and then decided a Back to the Future III visit to the West to set the whole thing up was in order.

Unfortunately, this one is not streaming on Netflix to conclude the series if you've watched any of the first three, so you'll have to rent it.

That said, there are definitely worse movies to watch.

: )

Final Grade:  C+ for this one... B- for the overall franchise.

Good, mindless, rewatchable fun!

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