This movie came from a random guy at a party Kay went to who was also a movie enthusiast, both bad and good. After checking his credentials and finding that he was well versed in the bad movie canon, he fervently recommended this movie: "Roar." It wasn't so much that he held it up as a paragon of bad movies, but he and his wife insisted that it was an experience that needed to be watched. And they were so right. "Roar" is a movie that was made over an eleven year period where the actors were forced to interact with dozens of untrained lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and panthers. Noel Marshall, who directed and starred in the film, and Tippi Hedren, of "The Birds" fame and Marshall's wife, apparently discovered an abandoned plantation house full big cats while in Africa and decided to make the movie with them and their kids in it in the name with the goal of supposedly showing that they are not that dangerous. The movie ended up doing the opposite. According to the Blu-Ray box 70 cast and crew members were injured and a lot of those injuries appear on screen.
The plot of the movie is pretty thin. A guy living in a house full of big cats in the middle of nowhere in Africa has his family come to visit him. The beginning of the movie involves a visit from the guy's friend, who doesn't understand why this crazy man lives amongst the big cats. We see the crazy man break up a fight between two lions that ends in a lot of blood loss. Then a bunch of guys who think the big cats are dangerous come to his house and tigers climb into their boats and sink them. Also, everyone gets brutalized as they leave. There isn't even continuity between scenes because there was so much violence. Suddenly the crazy man has a bandaged hand or a torn shirt and we don't know why until later on we see the attack that caused it.
The guy's family goes to the house while he goes to meet them at the airport. His journey to the airport takes forever because he brings along two tigers who sink his boat. Meanwhile, his family is attacked by the cats for at least 40 minutes and they have to hide in cabinets and get chased off the roof of the house multiple times. Eventually the guy realizes he made a mistake and goes back to his house just in time for the big cats who were attacking his family to suddenly decide they are friendly. Even when they're friendly, they still gnaw arms and the actors play it off like it's no big deal.
This movie needs to be seen to be believed. In spite of not being a good movie or a bad movie necessarily, it will hold your attention for the whole time because you are nervously waiting for someone to get scalped.
Spoon Rating: 5 Forks
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