release year: 1982
genre: sci-fi/action
viewing setting: home DVD, 10/28/00
what I expected: wasn't sure
what I got: fairly entertaining borderline-serious movie
synopsis: Evil defeats good in the remote swamp, but good comes back as the Swamp Thing!
impressions: This was a good mix of comedy and seriousness, which for a comic-book adaptation, meant that is was entertaining and fun to watch. It mixed action, horror, humor, and straddled the line between taking itself seriously and not.
acting: Louis Jourdan was great as bad guy Arcane. Adrienne Barbeau did a good job also, but she had a pair of handicaps (which, I might add, were fully displayed in a cleverly-planned bathing scene.)
final word: The most entertaining kind of cheese.
rating: C+