don not read this review if you want the shock conclusion of the crater lake monster to be a total surprisea claymation plesiosaur rise from the depth of crater lake to wreak havoc on a group of local redneck and not to mention your fast forward button . to call the crater lake monster amateurish be to overstate the obvious . if you aren not a fan of low budget drive in film and you probably wouldn not be look here in the first place . the problem with the movie be that when there no monster action go on and it really suck and go nowhere . the script be very ed wood ish and in that it utterly contrive in the way it set up the main action sequence . nothing be too outlandish for the crater lake monster . it explain it dinosaur by have a meteor crash into crater lake and uperheating the water to the point where it incubate a dinosaur egg that have apparently be rest at the bottom of the lake for millennium . even if we could accept that the egg could have be lie there for so long and remain uncovered and viable and wouldn not superheating the water to such a high temperature cause most of the lake to evaporate . other than some token fog in one or two scene and we see no evidence of the water be hot and other than a few line in the script . the script be pad rather obviously in a few sequence and and it will do anything to get the character near the lake so that they can be menace by the claymation dino . a couple just pass through experience car trouble and while their automobile be be service and they decide to rent a boat and head out into crater lake . hmmmm . do you think these stranger in the story could be there so they would run into our title monstrosity . in a sequence that just plain bizarre and a drunk robs a liquor store and decides to murder the cashier and a bystander instead of pay four dollar for a bottle of booze . a car chase ensues and and wouldn not ya know it . they end up right by the lake . snack time for cratey . yeah and it not hard to figure out and and youre so far ahead of the script that youre irritate when it take another ten minute for these scene to unfold . the shamelessness of it all be endear and and i really want to like the crater lake monster . i just can not do it . there not enough here to go on and and this be more of a movie to put on during a party and because you could talk right over it and it wouldn not matter . the film have a slim list of the thing go for it and the most important be the dinosaur itself and which appear in three form represent a shadow puppet and a large model head that be drag woodenly through the water and and a fully realize claymation insert that actually look pretty good . there be also a pair of lovable hick in it and and they carry the majority of the intentional humor in the movie . a downbeat end leaf u mourn the death of both the monster and one of our beloved hick and so every good thing about this film be dead by the end of it . why be i so affect by this conclusion . be it the mournful song play over the closing credit . or be i just weep inwardly for the time that i waste watch film like this .