Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

thesar-2 What a misleading title (meaning the Something is Out There one, the other is exactly the opposite – like calling a movie Titanic or The Bank Job where you know what you're in for) and partial preview – 90% of the film (or more) took place outside. So – something, or someone(s) was out there all along. Strangely effective in some areas, though the whole feature screamed made-for-TV movie of the 1970s. The dialogue was both hilarious and sad at the same time. Yes, I realize we live in a more PC-friendly media these days, but some of the racial comments, especially by an Airplane!/Naked Gun hero of mine, Leslie Nielsen, should have earned it an R even back then. I can see where M Night might have gotten some of his inspiration for The Happening, though I didn't laugh at Animals as hard as I did The Happening.

Lee Eisenberg Eco-horror was one of the notable genres of 1970s cinema. William Girdler's "Day of the Animals" is a prime example. It depicts ozone depletion causing all wildlife above 5,000 feet to turn against humans. Of course, the best scene is Leslie Nielsen - still a few years away from his career in comedy* - wrestling a grizzly. This is a movie that, ridiculous as it is, must have been really fun to film. The animals really look like some mean mothers.Yes, it's one of the many silly exploitation flicks of the era. Totally enjoyable, I might add. Unfortunately, the director got killed in a helicopter crash in the Philippines less than a year after the release. Too bad.Also starring Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel, Andrew Stevens (Stella Stevens's son) and Michael Ansara (Barbara Eden's former husband).*As late as 1987, Nielsen co-starred in the dead serious "Nuts".

Boba_Fett1138 You might expect lots of fun from a movie called "Day of the Animals", that features a story about animals turning against humans, due to a sudden discovered problem with the ozone-layer (yeah don't ask, still not sure how that works in this movie). But the movie is a bit of a disappointment, since very little is actually happening in it. It's a real lackluster, that only becomes mildly interesting when the Leslie Nielsen character for some reason suddenly becomes crazy mad.Seriously, Leslie Nielsen's role in this movie is more hilarious than any of the movies he did in the last couple of years. And he is not even playing his character in this movie in a comedy-like way but he's playing it completely straight and serious, which really makes it all the more hilarious.But other than that, this is a really uninteresting genre movie to watch, that absolutely has nothing special in it. It's not the worst movie in its genre but that is because it is not being the most ridicules one. There is just far too little happening for that to become so.It really takes a long time before there is finally something happening in the movie and when it does, it's over before you know it. Surely they could had done far more interesting with its concept of all kinds of animals attacking humans, despite of its obvious low budget. The moments in which the animals attack in this movie are not done well at all and absolutely do not work out and are often more laughable than anything else really. So perhaps it after all is not such a bad thing at all that there are actually being very little moments in which the animals attack.The story really doesn't ever makes much sense but you just have to go along with it and don't think too much about anything that is happening, or else you will most likely be never able to finish watching this movie.Really not much good about this movie, though it obviously could had all still been a lot worse.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Michael_Elliott Day of the Animals (1977) *** (out of 4) Steve Buckner (Christopher George) takes a group of people on a hike through some mountains and before long they become targeted by a wide range of animals. It turns out, via a message at the start of the picture, that the ozone layer is being damaged and now the animals are attacking people.After the success of JAWS movie producers were rushing to get any sort of "animal attacks" movie on the screen. William Girdler struck gold with GRIZZLY as it made well over $35-million on a very small budget. DAY OF THE ANIMALS isn't quite as good as that movie but there's no question that it's an entertaining "B" movie that's actually a lot darker than you'd expect.There are a lot of very good things here but I will admit that there are some flaws. One major flaw is that the film adds in a martial law sequence and I think the budget just didn't allow them to do anything with this. Another problem is the Leslie Nielsen character. He turns in a fine performance but what the character does during the final portion of the film was just downright silly and I thought it took away from the seriousness of the picture. On a campy level it's somewhat funny but it just didn't fit well with the rest of the picture.Speaking of Nielsen, him and the rest of the cast are a lot of fun. George, who also appeared in the director's GRIZZLY, is a lot of fun as usual. He's certainly got that tough guy persona working and he was a lot of fun here. Lynda Day George isn't wonderful here but she's at least watchable. You've got the likes of Richard Jaeckel, Ruth Roman and Andrew Stevens who add to the fun as well.The animal attacks are all well-staged and I'd argue that the film has a very serious and dark tone to it. This isn't something you usually see in these pictures but it's clear the director and screenplay were very serious at playing up the "warning" they were going for.