Snowmageddon (2011)

Wonderful character development!

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Brilliant and touching

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Just as I was getting the smell of xmas spice candles out of my clothes along comes a wintery christmas movie courtesy of the Scyfy channel.This Canadian made movie stars Laura "The Faculty" Harris and tells the odd tale of a snow globe that inflicts natural disasters on the town.Scyfy originals have a really bad rap, I personally find them entertaining enough with the rare exceptions (Sharknado I'm looking at you). I consider them charming dumb fun and this is a fine example.Snowmageddon is slightly above par, yes it has weak sfx and yes the whole thing is head scratchingly stupid in places but there is certainly entertainment to be found.If you like Scyfy's goofy movies then you'll like this, if not then perhaps steer clear.The Good:Some good ideasCast do a great jobScyfy charmThe Bad:Usual ropey sfxThings I Learnt From This Movie:I assume after he threw the globe into the lava the eagle picked him up right Gandalf?

I have decided to cheer on SyFy Channel no matter what. I have come to the conclusion, I don't care what it is the powers-to-be toss out there, I will watch the stupid thing…and like it. Similar to that old commercial with kid who think the cereal given to him is poison and then decides to give it to his clueless brother, I feel SyFy" is TV's version of Mikey. The regular networks won't touch the programs – feed them to SyFy. Firstly, all of these shows have more cheese than Wisconsin; they stink worse than a stopped up Alaskan-outhouse and each script makes less sense than a clowder of unsatisfied, horny cats. But that doesn't matter (in this case at least.) I may sound cruel, but for the most part, they are enjoyable. The makers of this celluloid mayhem are not serious, so why should I be? As long as the laughs at least seem unintentional, I will devour these comedies whenever and wherever. Keep them coming, and feed me more of the "SyFy Koolaide." Oh and about "Snowmageddon", it's pretty much the same as "Ice Twisters", "Ice Quake" and "Piranhaconda." Something happens to a town, people splatter blood and all is good at the end. I will give this cinema-graphic phenomenon a big 6/10.

Brilliant, really... All the ingredients are there: a nice nuclear family with the usual problems (including a moderately rebellious teenager), some foggy problem in the community always already confronted in the very beginning by the image of a fantastically harmonious family; some puppy love in the making - and breaking, inconclusively (not sure who the young lady fancied but someone died); then, there's the hero! He rushed boldly into the volcano - that had not shown any sign of existing prior to that - and bravely dumped the mysterious Xmas toy that had arrived at his doorstep out of nowhere. Oh come on... If you get a weird package on your doorstep, you'd call the police, no?

Well, it isn't going to become any Christmas classic, that's for sure.The story in "Snowmageddon" is about a mysterious snow globe that is left at the doorstep of the Miller family. The snow globe is a replica of the small lazy town of Normal, Alaska. Rudy Miller discovers that the catastrophic events that unfold inside the snow globe once it is winded up also happens in real life, right in their little town.Initially, the storyline is sort of silly, but the movie actually works out well enough, because it is so cheesy. However, what makes this movie bearable to sit through is the acting. People cast for the movie actually pulled off their characters quite nicely, and it could have been much worse, had their acting skills been halting as is the case in most of these type of movies. But luckily, the cast here were able to pull up the movie.As for the effects, well... Let's just say, don't prepare yourself to be blown away by the special effects. The effects in "Snowmageddon" are far from impressive. They do, however, get the job done, and most of the time work out well enough.There are far worse movies of the same genre out there, many of which spewed out from SyFy Channel and The Asylum, so it was a fresh breath of air to have a movie that actually managed to stay a bit more afloat in the pond of otherwise unbearable movies.One thing did puzzle me about "Snowmageddon", though. For a movie with a title such as it did, where was all the snow? I was expecting blizzards and such, but the snow was restricted to the mountain alone. And that sort of took away something from the movie, because the title did hint towards something that unfortunately never took place.If you enjoy cheesy and campy disaster movies, where the story doesn't necessarily have to be 'realistic', then "Snowmageddon" is perhaps worth your time. I do believe, however, that this movie is the type of movie you watch once and then never again.