Peter Bradshaw: An entertaining comedy thriller directed by Steve Miner and scripted by David E Kelley, the man who brought us Ally McBeal

TV maestro David E. Kelley goes fishing in feature film waters with "Lake Placid," and comes back with nothing for supper. A project for which the term writeoff was invented, this lamer-than-lame attempt at stirring up the summer movie scene with a scary creature-in-the-depths scenario is sure to be gobbled alive by the ferocious competition.

Jaws + Alligator / Friday the 13th x zero = Lake Placid

"What an animal does in the water is his own business--unless he does it to man." So says Sheriff Keough, one of the crocbusters of "Lake Placid." I couldn't