This featurette is found on the DVD of Creature From the Black Lagoon. It consists of interviews with cast members, collectors and experts, clips from the trilogy, production and concept stills and narration. They talk about the entire series(although the third seems to get rather little time... was there not much to say about it? All they seem to go into about it, other than the plot, is how the title being becomes more human, which it has been to an extent from the first one. In general, the original seems to be the main focus of this, but it most likely is by far the best one; I can't say, as it's the only of them that I've watched), the 3D(with a solid explanation of how it worked), the actors, the designs(the ones that were used and the one that wasn't), and the legacy of these films. I have to admit, I had no idea they had such extensive an assortment of merchandise for this "monster". Everyone in this has something to say, albeit it does do the love-fest thing, and not all of the information is interesting. It's put together nicely, very smoothly; I can only think of one spot where an anecdote came out of nowhere and had nothing to do with what was being talked about. There is a little violence and a discussion of the sexual undertones of that particular swimming sequence in this. I recommend it to any fan of the franchise. 7/10
Back to the Black Lagoon: A Creature Chronicle
(2002 Video)
America's favorite amphibian
28 June 2010