Tremors: Feeding Frenzy Review

Tremors: Feeding Frenzy premiered on March 28, 2003. The first episode of the TV series surprised me. I found myself enjoying it a lot more than I had anticipated. Burt doesn't seem to be as annoying in this episode than he did in the previous movie. Burt did seem unredeemable at the end of Tremors 3. That's still true to some extent, but my expectations were so low that I was surprised when it was better than dirt. Perhaps the fact that you know this is made for television makes the corniness of this episode all the more easy to watch. The creature effects are not done by the team that worked on the first three films and it shows. A CGI grabboid's tongues stretch out way too far, farther than we've ever seen before. That was one of the few times during the episode that it seemed completely implausible and that detracted from what was set up previously. Unlike the Planet of the Apes TV series that destroyed what was set up in the movie series within the first scene, the first episode of Tremors does nothing to detract from what was set up. Is it necessary? Absolutely not. The third film was a lot more offensive to the series than this episode is. It's a nice addition that continues the story from the third film that doesn't add a lot of new story, but in no way detracts from, or is offensive to the series that it is spun off from.