Frog-g-g! (2004)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Cody Jarrett

Writer:

Cody Jarrett (writer)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Comedy | Horror

Tagline:

It's not nice to play with mother nature.

Plot:

Chemical waste seeps into a small town's water supply, causing the birth of a mutant FROGGG which is...

Plot Keywords:

Interracial Relationship | Cult Favorite | Nudity | Gay Interest | Lesbian

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Kristi Russell	...	Dr. Barbara Michaels
Ariadne Shaffer	...	Trixie
Robert Patrick Brink	...	Sheriff Buford Lawson (as Rob Brink)
Michael McConnohie	...	Huntley Grimes
James Duval	...	Freb
Todd Malta	...	EPA Agent Steve Saunders
Mary Woronov	...	Doctor
John Ponzio	...	The Frog
William Knight	...	Bartlett
Eowyn Steele	...	Sara Grimes
Donna Tina Charles	...	Mother
Jennifer Saxon	...	Girl Under Bleachers
Brian Ruppert	...	Johnson
Erik Sorenson	...	O'Halleran
Alexander D. Slanger	...	Deputy Conner

Runtime:

USA:80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

South Korea:18 | USA:Unrated

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

End Of All Cinema

Kermit No!

Frog-g-g!: 5/10: Frog-g-g is slightly better than the average nature gone wild remake that one usually finds on the Sci-Fi channel running in a movie marathon some rainy Saturday afternoon. (This, by the way, is damning with faint praise.)

It has a good sense of fun about it, a real catchy theme song and lipstick lesbian sex scenes. It is also a missed opportunity that tries to do a couple of things and pretty much fails at all of them.

For example the lead scientist character is a lesbian. She is played by Kristi Russell who does make a decent movie lesbian. (A movie lesbian is a hot chick who likes to make out with other hot chicks preferably when guys are watching. This should not be confused with non-movie lesbians who have mullets, beer guts, wear hockey jerseys and will kick you ass for looking at them twice.) While there are a couple of brief lesbian sex scenes they seem a bit sisterly. (I really don't mean this in a good way). There is some topless hugging and kissing but nothing that screams good exploitation.

Well at least as a parody of 70's nature gone wild movies it works right? Nope. All the parts are here (The scientist hero, her girlfriend, the reluctant sheriff and the big bad industrialist who of course is both the lifeblood of this town and the sheriff's brother-in-law.), but the movie plays it much too straight for a good Airplane style parody.

Everything else is downhill from there. The movie has no horror at all and considering the plot consists of a man-sized frog copulating with virgins the exploitation is disappointing. (I'm sorry but when one rents a cheap C-grade Humanoids from the Deep rip-off. One expects a hecatomb of nubile young flesh and gratuitous nudity to boot.)

Nevertheless I'm a sucker for nature gone wild movies and movie lesbian sex, no matter how tame, has never hurt a film. Neither has a catchy theme song with the dancing Sleestak.