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By Cyril Pearl -- Video Business, 12/3/2007
UNION STATION/STARZ
Street: Jan. 8
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> Forgettable, over-sized monster flick offers a star turn by rising starlet Summer Glau.
This Sci Fi Channel movie finds a meteor-like spaceship crashing into a museum in the small town of Blackwater, La., where the featured exhibit is a partially frozen, prehistoric woolly mammoth. Well, it doesn’t take long for the tusky beast to re-animate (courtesy of the shape-shifting alien from the spaceship) and wreak havoc, prompting some serious action from the town’s paleontologist (Vincent Ventresca), his dad (Tom Skerritt), his daughter (Summer Glau) and a couple of Feds (Leila Arcieri, Marcus Lyle Brown). A send-up of sorts of ’50s giant monster flicks, Mammoth isn’t all that scary or funny, and the effects are slight and cheesy, even by Sci Fi Channel standards.
Shelf Talk: What’s most notable in this forgettable, jumbo-sized monster entry is the presence of the quirky Summer Glau, who has become a cult icon through her featured roles on Joss Whedon’s 2002 sci-fi series Firefly; its big-screen follow-up, Serenity (2005); and the upcoming, much anticipated Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles series, which premieres on Fox a week after Mammoth lumbers onto the street.
Sci-fi action, color, NR (some violence), 90 min., DVD $19.98
Extras: featurettes
Director: Tim Cox
First Run: Sci Fi Channel, April 2006