"Poseidon" ** (out of four): Forgettable, water-logged remake of the 1972 disaster classic.
On New Year’s Eve in the film “Poseidon”, the titular cruise ship is struck by an enormous wall of water and flipped over. The script would have us believe that the capsizing is caused by a “rogue wave” which, as one crew member puts it, is “rare and unpredictable”. The same cannot be said for the film itself, the second and hopefully final remake of the 1972 disaster classic, “The Poseidon Adventure”. The story remains the same (they may have taken the “adventure” out of the title, but thankfully they left it in the script): after the ship comes unnaturally to rest upside-down, a group of intrepid souls goes against the advice of the crew and attempts to climb up into the ship’s belly to find a way out.
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I'd rather be trapped upside down in a boat all alone with John Wayne Gacy, Freddie Krueger AND Lizzie Borden at the height of their powers than to watch this garbage.
Apparently, judging by the weekend box office receipts, the rest of America thinks so too.
Viva Stella Stevens and her white cotton panties and Shelly Winters and her monster granny bloomers!
Viva!