20130914: Review--Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators

Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators

1. Fundamentals
1. American live action feature length film, 2013,
2. IMDB: 3.6/10.0 from 399 users.
3. Rotten Tomatoes: no page for this movie.
4. Directed by: Griff Furst
5. Starring: Jordan Hinson as Avery Doucette, Victor Webster as Tristan, Christopher Berry as Bud, Amy Brassette as Candy.
6. Filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  Well, somewhere near it, perhaps.


2. Setup and Plot
1. Cajun accents?  They come, they go, they are never very good.
2. Avery comes back to the swamp, to her family, after four years in college.  She's a vegan now, which gives an extra layer of problems dealing with a hunting, carnivorous culture.
3. Pluses: the gators have red necks and spiked tails.
4. Minuses: bad banjo playing, bad accents, Avery's sudden, complete switch to 'kill them all' after she sees a giant gator kill someone she's known for years; more bad banjo playing; badly motivated clan feud, Doucette versus Robichaud; more blue tongues than were strictly needed.
5. So, bad moonshine dumped in the swamp water seems to be changing the gators.  People who eat the gator meat or get deep wound from live gators change into gators.
6. After an early success against the gators, the two clans degenerate in to drunken stupidity again.  The human-to-gator changes start.
7. Avery's father had a gold tooth; his gator form has a gold fang.  Avery catches that, just before he pulls her out of the quicksand.  The non-biological gold tooth changing shape makes about as much sense as the humans turning into gators, or the moonshine doing the first conversion.
8. One minute Avery is dead set against killing gators since they are probably her family. The next minute, she's killing three of them by blowing up a gas tank.
9. In the end, about all the remaining Doucettes are gators, while the Robichauds are out to kill them.  Avery tries to protect her father-turned-gator, but that is not to be.


3. Conclusions
1. One sentence summary: Cajuns fight gators mutated by bad moonshine in SyFy original.
2. Final Rating: 4/10.


4. Scores
1. Cinematography: 10/10 Sharp.


2. Sound: 10/10 Fine.


3. Acting: 2/10 Mostly bad.  Lines delivered badly, accents out of kilter.  Candy was a hoot.


4. Screenplay: 4/10 There's a story to tell, and it moves from beginning to middle to end.  The gaffes mentioned above are hard to forget, however.