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Mermaid Chronicles Part One:  The She Creature
 
Rimmi on the Aisle Date:  11/21/04
 
 
 

Okay, you guys have heard of this movie but pretend you haven't and you're excited, okay?

Onil mentioned it on the Duh but I don't know who has actually seen it.

Tonight's movie is called....... She Creature!!!!

Or... Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature.



It stars Rufus Sewell (Count Adhemar from A Knight's Tale), The mom from Spy Kids and Billy from Ally McBeal. And Howard from the Cosby Show.

Our movie begins with a lady in olden times walking through a castle at night.

She and her hurricane lamp are investigating something.

Something attacks her. Cut to a turn of the century carnival.

Count Adhemar... er... Angus is calling people around to see the freak show act.

He brings a "real live zombie" out on stage but it's really just Howard. He pretends to be angered and escapes.

Just as suddenly he stops because a chick is singing somewhere. It's Spy Kid Mom and she's dressed like a mermaid.

It's all a carnie act. They all count up their money later that night.

Angus and Spy Kid Mom are married.

Some drunk guy is upset she's not a real mermaid. Angus and SKM give him a ride home.

His home is the dusty old castle from the beginning of teh movie.

The drunk guy does alot of drunk guy rambling about mermaids.

Uh oh... the drunk guy wants them to follow him....

Ooh! Nicely done here. I like!!! He takes them to a very small tank with a mermaid crammed inside.

She's chained inside because she murdered drunk guy's wife. I guess he's punishing her by leaving the algae build up in her tank.

That's some fierce algae.

She speaks some creepy mermaid speak at them. ooh!

Angus wants to buy her and take her somewhere to be studied buy the guys says no.

Angus rounds up a carnie posse with guns to go steal the mermaid.

Conveniently the drunk guy has a heart attack.

Angus steals her and loads her abourd a ship and he tells his wife that he bought her.

There's Billy from Ally McBeal. He's a member of the ship's crew.

They are sailing for the US.

Aw. It's sort of sweet how Howard has taken to the psycho mermaid like a pet.

The crew doesn't know about the psycho mermaid.

Spy Kid Mom and all thralled by the mermaid.

Billy hits on SKM.

It's late at night and the psycho mermaid has escaped!!!1111!!

SKM dreams that the psycho mermaid ate her husband.

Oops! The crew caught the psycho mermaid on deck and they are pissed that no one knew about her before.

They get the mermaid back in the tank and she's very sick. SKM goes to her.

She seems okay now. She swam up the top of the tank and spit a ring out at SKM.

Ooh! Twist! Before SKM and Angus were married she was a whore and she got it on with Billy and took all his money. Angus thinks that's cool!

SKM thinks the mermaid ate Billy for her.

SKM found the journal of the drunk guy's wife. She was thralled too.

The drunk guy's wife explains that the psycho mermaid will only eat people.

Late at night a sailor goes in to look at the mermaid. He's thralled. She does a little underwater valerian dance for him.

SKM and Angus have a long sequence of wild oomphing sex. Everynow and then we get shots of her looking like the mermaid and she starts to strange him.

Angus is a little turned off by this and he leaves.

SKM runs down to the mermaid tank to ask, "WTF? Stop making me strangle Angus!" The psycho mermaid says nothing but tries to look innocent.

The mermaid has learned to say Angus' name and SKM warns her to stay away from him. It's night again and Angus, for whatever reason, is back in bed with her.

The movie has looped in on itself. SKM wanders the ship in her nightie with a hurrican lamp in hand.

There's a funny shot of her waiting for Howard to leave his post on mermaid watch. He's doing all sorts of carnie tricks like juggling and stuff to try and amuse himself and the psycho mermaid.

Damn! I really like this movie so far. I really am digging it.

SKM lets the mermaid out of the tank and tells it to escape into the ocean. She and the mermaid share an almost kiss until Howard walks in and the mermaid kills Howard.

The crew comes in to shoot her and she screams.

Angus locks SKM in her room and in the morning they bury Howard at sea. I'll miss Howard.

<Lita> Did they shoot the mermaid?

It seems like they just tranqed her. She's fine, I guess. She hasn't really been back on screen yet.

What? The drunk guy's wife was pregnant by the mermaid> Maybe I'm not getting something here.

SKM is out to kill the mermaid now but the mermaid ain't in the tank.

SKM finds the mermaid fully naked and with legs in the corner.

The men try to shoot the mermaid and SKM tried to stop them and passes out. Now she wakes up and she's saying she's pregnant. Angus tells her she's just stressed.

The crew gets a little horny with the mermaid now that she has legs.

One of the carnies is all, "Dude that's not cool."

The captain says the mermaid made him do something and he shoots himself before he says what.

Ah ha! The mermaif made the captain steer the ship towards her home.

Rimmi will never go into the ocean again. The mermaid just turned into some spiny, poiny ugly monster.

The psycho mermaid hell beast is killing off all the crew and the carnies one by one.

The mermaid hell beast is looks like a really big, pissed off mollusk now.

Okay, now there's some b-movie crap going on. The mermaid is the queen of all mermaids or something and she's bringing the shop in to mermaid island to feed the others. I hope I heard all that wrong.

Now Angus and SKM are the last two alove on the ship.

Bummer. Now Angus is dead.

Now all the happy little psycho mermaids are happy mama mermaid is back with them and they swim up to the ship.

Two weeks later a rowboat finds the ship and SKM is still inside.

SKM lived and had a little girl and SKM never spoke about what happened and it's kind of a lame open ending. I knew the moment I said I liked the movie would suck. The End.

Oh well. It began with promise and then got really really weird.

And now....the inaugural edition of Rimmi Rates It!!
 
Welcome to Rimmi Rates It! This is where I rate all the movies I recap. I will be rating them in terms of Life Altering Blahs, or LABs. The less LABs the movie gets, the better it is. The more LABs, the crappier it is. As I rate a movie each week, the other ratings may shift in order to give you an accurate picture of how I felt about the film.

Here are some movies that have been posted and an honorable mention list of the ones that haven't. Enjoy!

(Next week, after some processing of this weekends movies, I'll rate them.)

1.0

Freddy vs Jason

No one is as surprised as I am that this movie is at the top of my list. It wasn't scary, it wasn't well-written and it was predictable but it's ability to laugh at itself endeared me to it. Plus Jason "Kevin" Ritter and Christopher "Adam" Marquette didn't hurt it's rating either.


1.1

Queen of the Damned


This one was fun to recap. Lots of fodder, a goofy plotline trying to take itself seriously and horrible gothy music. I, for one, will miss Queen Akasha and her need to suck in public.


2.0

Count Yorga, Vampire


It was campy and predictable but that's why I loved it. I'm not one for the heavily boobified, lesbian, vampire minions but they were fun to giggle at.


2.1

Taboo


There is only one reason I rented this movie. To see a certain slut get bludgeoned in a shower. As a bonus I got to see her die twice this movie and even if one death wasn't real, it was enough to carry this movie to a 2.1 Life-Altering Blah. Otherwise, this movie sucked lots of ass.


3.0

Below


Overall, not a bad movie. Not a great movie either. If it could ever find the element it was lacking and refilm itself, it could be a kick ass movie. I think the element that needs to be addressed could have something to do with the innocent ghost who seeks justice by inflicting pain, torture and death on the innocent living who are only trying to help. (See Fear Dot Com and Gothika )


3.1

Dementia 13


Not a bad movie. I liked it and I got caught up in the cool black & white, gothy goodness of it. The only thing I would change is the quick demise of our leading lady. She promised some cool psychological wickedness but instead she flaunted herself around in her undies and got killed.


4.0

Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed


Meh. It was okay. A younger me would have been SOOOO into this movie but an older me got tired of the fart jokes real fast. I did enjoy seeing the original ghosts from the old cartoon brought into live action like the Miner 49er.


5.0

The Grapes of Death


Yeah, I'm surprised I'm giving this one this rating too. It was a horrible movie but compared to the movies after it, I'd sit through this one 100 more times before I'd watch any with a 10.0 L.A.B. rating or higher. Maybe a sick part of me enjoyed watching the zombies sneak/lurch behind the blind woman. Awkward walking dead + sneaky brain eater = funny!


10.7

Fear Dot Com


Sexual violence, like the kind in this movie, is not cool with me. Sure, the plot made no sense whatsoever, but I could have forgiven that if the tale of the kidnapped woman (which really wasn't necessary to the main "story" at all) hadn't upset me so much. As stated before, the little ghost girl in the computer who wanted some kind of justice for something vague that happened to her off screen shouldn't have been killing off the people she was enlisting to help her (See Below and Gothika ).


10.8

28 Days Later


This movie started off just fine. It was everything I'd expect from a typical end-of-the-world-as-we-know it zombie movie: survivors banding together against the living dead. It lost me when it morphed into a movie about sex-starved soldiers seeking women. If it had just kept to a movie about brain-eaters and been an hour shorter I wouldn't be able to sleep but I wouldn't be filled with RAGE and this movie would have received a better L.A.B. rating.


10.9

The Brotherhood of the Wolf


I was expecting a straight forward werewolf movie but instead I got a faux, artsy fartsy piece of crap. The fighting-in-slow-motion for the sake of fighting-in-slow-motion, the magical whores from the Vatican, the re-animated taxidermy nightmare and the poinless druggings bogged down this movie so much that I feel a lot of dread about ever having to watch this film again.


Honorable Mentions:
(In no particular order...)

Cabin Fever
Hillbillies and contagious diseases. Do I need to tell you how bad it sucked?

Dreamcatcher
Army freaks, penis biting aliens, contagious diseases, and Mark Wahlberg. Avoid this one.

Jeepers Creepers 2
Highschool kids run from a flying monster that just won't die. I kind of liked it, even if it was a little formula.

Final Destination 2
Many twists and red herrings and little time to care about the characters.

The Haunted Mansion
Meh. If I were a kid I would have been more into it. The only scene I really like now is the endless cemetery filled with all those goofy ghosts.

Gothika
Ghost: Okay, this is how it's gonna work. I need your help but rather than be direct about it, I'm gonna ruin your career, hurt lots of innocent people, and viciously attack you in the shower to carve HELP on your naked body. If that doesn't work for you, oh well. (see Below and Fear Dot Com )

Resident Evil
For a walking dead movie, not too bad. I could even sorta buy the brain-exposed dog monsters. I could watch it again.

Secret Window
Johnny Depp should have just walked away from this one.

Cold Creek Manor
I hope Juliet Lewis never graces my TV screen again. She icks it all up with skank vibes.

For a fun discussion regarding this She Creature vs. the original 50s "classic", click here!