Another year, and here we are again reviewing yet another Tremors movie. This makes the sixth one, and looking at the Wiki for the “franchise” there appears to be another one coming out at some point called “Island Fury”. So… look forward to that at a later date.
Burt Gummer leads a lonely life. Though he is THE premiere “Graboid” hunter and an expert in their kind, he is doing his best to keep a roof over his head as he is currently avoiding paying his taxes, for various governmental reasons. He is the lone resident left in Perfection Nevada. When his son Travis shows back up, he gets a call from Valerie McKee (daughter of Valentine McKee) in Canada that drags them both back into the fight against the Graboids. It seems that while doing ice core drills on a glacier (those still exist?) in Canada the team doing the drilling was attacked and killed by Graboids. Burt and Travis are called in to investigate and exterminate.
On location in the Nunavut Territory of Canada Burt and Travis’ plane is forced into an emergency landing because they are attacked by “Ass-Blasters”. Once on the ground, they find the team of researchers working in the midst of a “heatwave” in the winter, primarily brought on by climate change. The group quickly discovers that they are in the feeding area of Graboids. Stiring the pot a bit is another group of researchers from DARPA. Burt, being the conspiracy theorist he is, naturally thinks that the guys at DARPA are using the Graboids as a kind of bio-weapon. This makes Burt want to exterminate them all the more.
I saw Tremors [the original] in the theater when it first came out. I genuinely love that movie. The second one was okay at best. From the third one on I have just been watching them out of morbid curiosity. Are they worth seeing? Probably not, but I will keep watching them to see what stupid situation they can put Michael Gross (Burt) into each time. Also, and I’ve said this before as well, this might be Jamie Kennedy’s best role.
The franchise has a formula, and they are sticking with it because it’s easy, and for the most part, it works. One thing in this movie stuck out (intentionally) that I can’t figure out. In the first bunch of movies, Burt wears an Atlanta Hawks hat, but here he is wearing a Chicago Cubs hat. Normally, that wouldn’t matter at all but in the first 10 minutes of the film, two characters point this out and Burt is VERY adamant about telling them that he hasn’t switched teams, just a new hat. It’s very strange. After reading an interview with Michael Gross where he is asked specifically about the hat he basically says that when they used the Hawks hat it was just convenience and because they didn’t have a team picked specifically. When he went into this film he wanted to make a choice for the character to use the Cubs because Chicago is his home town and like Burt, they were the Underdog. So I guess much like the movies themselves, sometimes they just keep going in spite of what everyone expects.
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