Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

SnoopyStyle Captain Mike Turner (Michael Caine) pilots his tug boat with Wilbur Hubbard (Karl Malden) and Celeste Whitman (Sally Field) to salvage the Poseidon after it capsized. They arrive to be joined by rival Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas) and his crew tracking the SOS. The combined group enters the ship and finds survivors as well as treasure. Frank Mazzetti (Peter Boyle) is desperate to find his daughter. Gina Rowe (Shirley Jones) is the nurse. Suzanne Constantine (Veronica Hamel) is a damsel in a ball gown. There are more survivors and more discoveries.This is the definition of an unnecessary sequel. Where did the first survivors go? Are they the first ones on board? A sequel could work if it's from other survivors' journey after the ballroom got flooded. Instead, this proposes random ships out in the middle of the ocean. Stefan and Suzanne's connection makes no sense. That whole premise is outlandish. The treasure hunt has no drama. The big stars are meaningless when the premise is so stupid to begin with.

brefane While not the worst film ever made, there is after all 1973's Lost Horizon, this sequel to 1972's water and cardboard(character)epic is not a disaster film, but a disaster itself. Actually, there is no disaster here; it's a modern day pirate film. The original had five Oscar winners and no performances of any note while this has four Oscar winners and atrocious, unconvincing performances. Field in particular as would be comedy relief is embarrassing;the idiotic dialog would sink anyone, but she could have turned down the role. Directed by Irwin Allen, this is a tedious, uneventful, unimaginative waste of time with no purpose other than to hopefully cash in on the original's popularity. It doesn't even rise to the level of camp or so bad that it's good status which actually makes it less memorable and/or watchable than Ross Hunter's musical remake of Lost Horizon.

PathetiCinema This movie is about a group of actors who's paychecks/royalty fees are in the hull of an upturned cruise liner.Michael Caine wants his pay packet/royalty checks but must enter the Poseidon to get it.Sally Field, Karl Malden and Telly Savalas are also seeking their pay cheques/royalty fees and must also board the capsized bank.A few gunfights later and they reach the vault. Each actor loads up the cash and puts it away for a rainy day. They must then exit the ship and try to return to Hollywood for further work.This is a pretty exciting Irwin Allen epic and it's nice to see actors receiving a good pay packet in the name of entertainment.

Michael_Elliott Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) ** (out of 4) I've been wanting to see this turkey for at least a decade and after all the bad stuff I heard about the film, it really wasn't all that bad. Yes, the storyline is stupid as hell and makes for several laughable plot lines but if you can laugh at how dumb it is then you might enjoy yourself somewhat. Scavenger hunters (Michael Caine, Sally Field, Karl Malden) come across the sinking ship just minutes after the survivors from the first film were saved. Caine, about to lose his own ship, decides to enter the Poseidon in hopes of reaching the "purse room" where he can get all sorts of money. Along the way he counters some survivors (Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Mark Harmon, Shirley Knight, Slim Pickens) as well as a terrorist (Telly Savalas). As you can tell, the story is pretty much all over the place but it leads to some mild entertaining, which includes a machine gun fight with the terrorist and another subplot with one of the survivors being a blind man! Caine, Malden, Warden and Pickens actually come off with good performances but Boyle and Field should really be embarrassed. The special effects are rather laughable and again, the story is crazy but God knows this is no where near as bad as The Swarm or When Time Ran Out....