Review of Octopus

A really BIG fishy creature, born from spilled toxic nuclear waste during the Cuba-crisis, is consecutively devouring the crew of an American submarine and the passengers of a fancy cruise ship. Well actually, that's just a sub plot as the main storyline involves a super-nervous rookie CIA-agent trying to escort a feared terrorist to the States ALIVE, despite having blown up the American Embassy in Bulgaria and having killed his best friend. There are about seventeen more redundant plots to find in this movie (the dubious military past of submarine captain Shaw, the "Devil's Eye" research of sexy female oceanologist of Dr. Lisa, the biggest terrorist rescue-mission in the history of mankind, etc etc...) but they're all very irrelevant since all of us just wanted to see a cheesy monster-flick, right? The good news is that "Octopus" really isn't as awful as everyone else around here claims. The plot is stupid, the lead character is insufferable and the script contains some of the most atrocious dialogues ever written, still there are also campy fun moments to enjoy and the computer-engineered effects are overall tolerable. This mutated squid sure is big, about the same size as the cruise ship and his tentacles are long enough to reach for the sky and pull down helicopters! It doesn't look the least bit scary or menacing, but personally I expected to see far lousier effects and more pitiful octopus-attacks. The whole thing doesn't make the slightest bit of sense but if you switch off all brain activities, you might still enjoy it.