At some kind of hillbilly festival little Marisa Kendall wins a baby alligator. Once back home in her Chicago suburb, Marisa's mother flushes the poor reptile down the toilet, along with her daughter's innocence. With the single pull of a toilet handle an urban legend is brought to life. Flash forward about twenty years and the little reptile has all grown up, about thirty feet to be exact. When human remains are found in the sewer system cop David Madison is sent in for a look see. He finds all sorts of clues and suggestions that there is something not right in the sewers, but it is not until an unlucky photographer snaps a few pics ala Jaws 2 that we begin to learn just what is lurking amongst the turds. Officer Madison and now Dr.Kendall begin to piece together what has happened below the city streets and set out to stop it before the terror escapes.

Alligator is not a bad Jaws rip off, there are some decent kills and the alligator itself does not look bad at all. There are just too many similarities between alligator and Jaws for my taste. The main ripoff being Brock who is a big game hunter, he is to much like Quint and when you see what happens to him you tell me if the makers of this film did not steal the idea from Jaws.

One of the best parts of this flick is when the gator sneaks into a swimming pool and a little boy is being made to walk the plank by his friends, HA HA, ain't nothing like kid McNuggets to a hungry gator. Good for a rent or if you've never seen Alligator, a pretty good monster flick.

5 of 10