Loch Ness Terror starts out in 1976 with a group of researchers who are in Ireland searching out Nessie. All of them except the boy who was there with his father are killed. Flash forward to present day and we see that boy, James Murphy (Brian Krause), now grown up and searching for Nessie on his own. He makes his job sound very important by telling everyone that he is a "crypto-zoologist". Really, he's just trying to kill any living plesiosaur.
Somehow, Nessie has traveled around the world and thanks to underwater tunnels, she is now in Lake Superior. To make matters even worse, she's pregnant again, so if Murphy doesn't stop her and her offspring soon, the town and all its inhabitants are going to be brutally murdered by carnivorous prehistoric reptiles. Basically, this movie is like Lake Placid meets Jurassic Park.
Overall, the acting was mediocre, which was disappointing since Brian Krause and Don S. Davis (Stargate SG-1) are usually really good actors. Both of them are in roles that are very different from what we've seen them in before, so maybe that was the problem. At any rate, we just weren't overly impressed with any one actor in the movie.
The cheesiness of the special effects kept us laughing over the entire movie. Actually, Loch Ness Terror makes a pretty good comedy if you MST3K it the entire time. There's one scene where someone's head is pulled off of her shoulders. It's so obviously fake and overly bloody that you can't help but to laugh. The best (well, really the worst), though, was the "microwave gun". To make it clear where the microwave was aimed at, they borrowed the vortex effects from Sliders. I kept expecting Quinn and crew to hop out of it. Then, there's the baby dinosaurs. There's such an obvious difference in the CG versions and the hand puppets that they used for close up shots that they didn't even remotely look the same.
There is one good thing on the DVD. The entire first episode of Blood+ is included. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely watch that. Also included on the DVD is a Making-of Featurette. You really don't want to watch it, I promise. It's basically 25 minutes of the main characters explaining the movie from their point of view. Only maybe 5 minutes showed real film footage. If you happen to catch this movie on the Sci-Fi channel, it's worth a laugh. Otherwise, you don't want to waste your time.
