Million Dollar Crocodile (2012)

Strange title aside, this was actually a good movie.

The digital animation (of the crocodile, mainly) is not really up to par with Hollywood special effects, but it's still good enough to not destroy the atmosphere of the movie noticeably. The filmography otherwise is great, and most of the crocodiles in the movie are really crocodiles, but there is one, a really big one, the main one, that's unreal. I mean, unreal, as in: animated.

The movie starts with a grandpa selling off his crocs, a little boy not wanting Amao (the big digitally animated one) to be sold. The grandpa thinks they're (the crocs) going to be taken care of, but they're really all just going to be food. Or maybe the grandpa knows but tells the boy otherwise. Anyway, Amao is sedated and taken away. Nobody's happy. Skipping frames...

At the antagonists HQ, Amao is about to be 'executed' when he wakes up, goes wild, kills one of the bad guys, escapes, and ends up in a small village tea garden, where he swallows a big bag with 100,000 euros in it. So there, the title is explained.

The movie start might not be so uplifting, but after that the comedy does roll in, even if sadness and drama are often intertwined. There's a little romance there as well, a bunch of interesting characters, and a constant croc chase. The movie has a typical Asian ending. You know, the emotional kind of ending. Amao isn't an evil croc, she's (oh yeah, it's a she) just annoyed at all the people chasing her and trying to slash her up and eat her. Who wouldn't be? It's a good movie. Though it doesn't feature extraordinarily talented actors or a very gripping plotline, it's certainly worth watching. It gets close to a 4, but overall it's still a neutral good movie:

 rated 3/5: not bad