2006 · action · comedy · sci-fi
Mammoth
Directed by Abram Cox1h 30m2006
On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. The meteor is actually a spaceship containing an alien life form which animates the museum's partially frozen Woolly Mammoth and begins a rampage. Local authorities and Government Investigators join forces with Frank Abernathy, the Museum Curator, and his father Simon, a B-Movie enthusiast, to bring down the giant mammoth in this alien-invasion flick!
Our read: Mammoth (2006) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · comedy · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- inventive
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