TrueHello
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
DipitySkillful
an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.
Robert Joyner
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Ragnarok-5
This was an awkward movie. I laughed at scenes that weren't supposed to be funny like the kid on the small boat getting eaten by the octopus. Oh God, that was funny seeing the mast going down for the final time. The mood of the movie was very odd. All the happy "we're going to sail on the ocean" kid contest was happy then switches to the dark, killer octopus scenes. Very uneven. The music and sound effects were very strange. Sometimes it was nice and soothing, then other times it was jarring. Also, scenes lingering on the actor for too long happened a lot in this film. I could go on. Finally, if you lead up to a scene where there is going to be a human/octopus rape scene. Show it. Don't tease us. Showing 30 seconds to a minute of a woman being violated by an octopus isn't going to kill you.I enjoyed it for what it was. It's not the worst movie I've ever scene. I rated this 7 out of 10 might be a bit high, but it just feels right to rate it this.
Idiot-Deluxe
After watching "Tentacles" last night - and being absolutely miserable as a result of it, there's one fact that's more resoundingly obvious than ever, which is the irrefutable fact that JAWS sure did "inspire" a tidal wave of sea-beast themed movies - and from what I've seen virtually all of them are terrible movies (lame cash-ins). But yet some still manage to be pretty entertaining, however with Tentacles, that's not at all the case......Firstly lets start with a quick cast run-down: Peter Fonda, John Huston, Shelley Winters and Bo Hopkins, so the casting is actually quite good and it was filmed on location off the beautiful coastlines of southern California, but once it's all said and done who really cares, because when movies are this exquisitely boring there's little in the way of positivity to mention. Tentacles is so completely and utterly lame it's hard to know where to start but here goes, the films all-star cast is used ineffectively (particularly in the second half) and Bo Hopkins delivers a lame and listless performance and just listen to his dialog. Terrible writing, terrible delivery, period. The films plot and basic story-line is poorly thought out and ill-conceived and from a special effects stand-point it's clearly obvious that the film simply didn't have anything near good enough to Stop Hearts or Wet Pants. Nope not all, nothing like what you see in say "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" - 22 years earlier. No "effects-wizardry" to see here, just some crudely conceived, low-budget, under-water effects that have been spliced together and intercut with some live animal footage (once again taking notes out of JAWS' playbook); and on that note let it be known that simply showing an animal up-close does not, repeat, does not effectively project any grand sense of scale or "giant" size, nor does it fool the audience - not for a second. I think it's "The Night of the Lepus" that best illustrates that fact, which technically speaking is an even worse movie than Tentacles, but yet at the same time it's much more entertaining, if not entirely for the right reasons. Oh yeah, just to mention it, this film has a soundtrack that's utterly generic, sounds like stock film music to me; my guess is that they could hardly afford John Williams, in any case the films music sucks. If there's one aspect that Tentacles isn't completely incompetent in, it would have to be in terms of its cinematography, apart from a few questionable camera angles its photography is solid throughout.Let me end my rant and review with this warning: For those who were considering wasting their time watching this pathetic garbage-pile of a movie (which is literally nothing more than an ultra-lame cash-in that's playing off of JAWS' record-breaking success), I'd recommend that you watch something else, as Tentacles scores in the bottom 1% of all movies. Lets be brutally honest it offers absolutely nothing that's good.
patvideo
I'm watching this on the COMET network right now and I'm noticing that the dialogue always leads somewhere or provides character background. There is no "filler" of stupid, pointless chatter that seems so prevalent in most new movies of this genre that I see today. And it's pretty cool to see Henry Fonda, Shelley W., Claude Akins, Bo Hopkins, etc. ALL in such a bizarre outing! ha! Very cool. This is not a bad film! Just needs more Cthulhu.
utgard14
A giant octopus is attacking a seaside resort. A newspaper reporter (John Huston) teams up with a marine expert (Bo Hopkins) to investigate. Soon they discover an underwater tunnel being built by Henry Fonda's company may be to blame for the octopus attacks. Oh and Shelly Winters is Huston's oversexed, overweight sister. Italian-American Jaws rip-off is good for some laughs and worth seeing for the slumming cast. Especially fun is hammy Shelly Winters. The sight of Winters in a novelty-sized sombrero will surely brighten your day. Henry Fonda's scenes are separate from most of the cast and he never references anything specific to the movie's plot. It's bizarre. Stelvio Cipriani's score ranges from good to irritating. Sadly, not the worst Jaws rip-off I've seen.
