Alicia
I love this movie so much
VeteranLight
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Michael Ledo
Desiree (Claudia Jennings) lives in the swamp with her younger brother, sister, and a bad French accent applied to broken English. The law messes with her and she goes Rambette on them. Indeed, this appears to be a forerunner to "First Blood."I obtained the director's special cut. I will say the transfer was superb considering the quality of film transfers from this era. However my memory seems to recall nude scenes that were deleted from this director's edition, especially those involving co-star Janit Baldwin. If I had to do again, I would go with the VHS.Parental Guide: No f-bombs. rape, nudity (Janit Baldwin, Claudia Jennings)
coachjeffk
**SPOILER ALERT** I had rented this film hoping to see a good "B" film, but I never finished watching it. I was bored within a few minutes, and couldn't stop fidgeting over the film's lack of progress. I had to shake my head in disgust and turn it off when the rednecks tried to rape the younger sister, and then shot her in the stomach with a shotgun and seeing the blood come out of her mouth. I had had enough.
globalnomaddad
Gator Bait has outdoor action, WWF wrestling type wrestling scenes, naked women, a sophomoric script, speeding boat races, not much dialogue to confuse the viewer; in short a fine film for the high school freshman male who can get it checked out past the R rating. It is so grade "B" that it is funny. Every once and a while you must see one of this movies just for a few laughs.
Michael DeZubiria
The cover of ‘Gator Bait makes it look like a ridiculous, mindless film with few redeeming qualities other than an abundance of inexplicable nudity. While there is nudity in the film (and unnecessary nudity, at that), it is a relatively low quantity of it, and there are even a few elements of the film that were well done – even if extremely few.The acting on all parts was just awful, but some performances were less idiotic than others. While it's true that the line `Boys will be boys' was uttered in response to an attempted rape, and one of the men attempting to capture Desiree actually SHOOK HIS FIST at her in one scene, it's not entirely the actors' faults that this movie was impossible to take seriously. Nope, even if ineffectively, all of the actors delivered honest performances – it's the SCREENWRITER that should be drug out into the street and shot. And the cinematographer was no genius either. The day-for-night photography was some of the worst I've ever seen – even worse than that seen in Dr. No, which was filmed 14 years earlier than ‘Gator Bait. Also, there is so much ridiculous dialogue in this movie that it becomes a form of comic relief in itself (`Leroy, you pick that boy up or I'm gonna blow yer head off!'). And I better not even get started on Desiree's laughable lines.
It's no secret that ‘Gator Bait is cheese. Everything about the film is ugly – especially those damn actors. Some of these guys are so ugly that sometimes it's hard to believe that they're real people. But despite this, they make for an effective team of angry (and excessively horny) rednecks, and the way that they get picked off one by one by this country girl not only provides an ironic bit of an interesting story, but also illustrates the extent of their collective stupidity. In the final shot of the film, with Pa standing in the swamp, the camera tilts slowly down to his reflection on the water, providing an unexpected hint toward meaningful direction. But for the most part, this is garbage. You just can't take something like this seriously at all. Let me put it in the immortal words of the great Sam Gerard, `Who's the ugliest, dumbest, most inbred country son of a bitch out here?' Well, whoever that person is, he or she is sure to get a kick out of ‘Gator Bait.
