Along with starring in this movie, the octopodes also had guest appearances on Babylon 5.
There’s a giant octopus in New York Harbor. Or maybe two monstrous octopodes. We’re not sure, but they’re slurping up Russian tourists and members of the Harbor Patrol like baby toes at the buffet in Octopus 2: River of Fear (2001). Little do they know, though, is that this is the appetizer, because it’s July 1, and in 3 days the Independence Day celebration will open as their main course, featuring 20,000 boats floating about like pasties, just waiting to be opened and cleaned out.
But the Harbor Patrol isn’t without its heroes, embodied in Walter. Payton. Wait, they’ve been slurped up, it must be handsome Nick, who is fighting the Captain and the Mayor as they doubt his deductions and observations. Ah, poor Nick. Something troubles him, but I don’t think we ever quite learn what.
But don’t worry, as this shambling wreck of a movie finally brings in the bus load of disadvantaged children, we know what’s going to happen, and Nick rides to the rescue of the kids and their maiden escort.
Oh, yeah. This was bad. Although the teeth on the octopodes were truly marvelous. And you have to wonder who came up with the idea of having one octopus humping the Statue of Liberty. I’d like to shake his hand, if only to get a DNA sample.
