Review of Man-Thing

Man-Thing (2005)
2/10
Far from the worst monster movie
1 May 2005
The range of scores on this movie is hard to understand. I haven't seen all of the Marvel adaptations, so I have no opinion on whether this is the worst of those. But anyone who thinks this movie is the worst of anything else must have been living in a cave ... a cave that isn't wired for cable. By monster movie standards this is probably a bit better than average. Even if one isn't grading on the curve, and even if you knock off an entire star for the bad accents this deserves at least a couple of stars just to separate it from movies like "Skeleton Man" and "Plan 9 from Outer Space". From the previews I was expecting this to at least surpass "Flying Virus" as the "Reefer Madness" of anti oil company movies, but it wasn't even that. Relax, people. On the other hand, this surely should be separated by at least half the spectrum from a genuinely good monster movie like "Alien", so a score over five is hard to understand. Hence, two stars.
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