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2004-01-10Only real complaint i have is the Planet Patrol.....eesh. Ok, teenagers that travel the galaxy like an interglactic police force......yeah. That is all i am saying on that.
Ok, now for the real reason y you people bought this dvd. Kraa. I admit, at first i kinda cringed at the sheer bulkness of the suit, over time watching it, i have grown accustom to it. It kinda is like a lovechild from the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the gillman from Monster Squad. The minitures and effects are fun to watch, though nothing extravagant. Kraa really didnt remind me of a dangerous world demolishing creature. I guess the Dr. Doom rip off villian didnt quit think his plan all the way through. Ah well.
Story is easy to follow. Kraa gets sent to earth. Speaking mollusk gets sent after to help earthlings build a gun that in the end kills poor kraa. The fish didnt see it coming *sob*
Overall...its worth the 10 bucks. But i still like Zarkorr better, and admit people to get that one first. Hopefully this is help the shy people from debating to buy this.
A good cheese movie for the kid in us all. 
2001-02-15
You want a good giant monster movie then rent something made by the Toho studios or featuring stop motion animation from Ray Harryhausen. If you want just dumb fun then you could do a whole lot worse than Kraa! The Sea Monster. A talking cheeseburger (believe me) tries to enlist the aid of some earthlings to battle a giant sea monster that threatens the world! Not great, but I found it a lot of fun on a Bert I Gordon level of filmmaking.
fab b movie 
2000-12-29
I would like to see this one of DVD! Colorful and interesting to say the least. WARNING!! Don't expect a total FX movie. The budget just isn't there..but it was a good movie to enjoy with the family.
"Let Nothing Stop Us In Our Quest For Warmth!" 2008-06-07
"Kraa" is a ridiculous man-in-a-rubber-outfit movie that is oriented toward a young demographic, and has enough camp hilarity to earn it three stars easily. The short version is this: Lord Doom is stuck on the cold, dark planet of Proyas, but he covets a warm climate. He dispatches "Kraa: planet wrecker for hire" to Earth to destroy the civilizations there. Kraa lands in the ocean, but thankfully the Planet Patrol is watching from Planet Patrol Station 1645, conveniently located 14 light-years from Earth. The officers of the Planet Patrol appear to be about 14, and the newest member of the crew was sent into space because of her psychic abilities. Unfortunately Lord Doom disables their station, which leads to no end of squawking about different ridiculous problems they are encountering. It's not enough that the station's core is going critical, it's going "hyper-critical". That must be extra bad!
Kraa emerges from the Atlantic ocean and immediately begins his world domination by destroying a service station in New Jersey. If any of you have seen the Rick Sloane masterpiece "Hobgoblins", it turns out that Kraa looks like an enormous amphibious hobgoblin. That appearance combined with some of the cheesiest miniatures and sets in recent film history make for high camp value and many laughs. Fortunately for Earth the Planet Patrol sends its only available agent, Mogyar, to destroy Kraa. Mogyar, who resembles a cross between a moldy pimento cheese sandwich and a box turtle, speaks with an Italian accent, and quickly befriends a waitress and a biker, who happens to be a genius.
Pompous government thugs (in comical red and black uniforms) capture Mogyar and his friends and thwart their plans for saving the Earth. Thankfully, the captives are smarter than the captors and appropriate a nuclear power plant, which, when combined in a unique manner involving psychic mind-melding and astral projection, saves the Earth. You will learn many interesting details in the film. For instance, I didn't know it was possible to simply unplug a nuclear power plant. After some fisticuffs with Lord Doom and his midget sidekick the film comes to an end much like it began: with really long credits.
This is a totally absurd film, and is about as horrifying as an ABC After School Special, only without the high budget or fancy production values. Sure it's cheap and mindless, but it's also a newer piece of camp that even gets in a cheap shot at Godzilla. Watch it for a laugh; if you don't you will assuredly miss one hundred percent of its appeal.
A riduculous waste of time 
2005-03-31
Kraa is supposed to destroy the earth, but he doesn't seem to take his assignment very seriously. Instead he just stands around in the same spot, waving his arms and shrieking until he gets shot. Our protagonists are assisted by a thingamajig which is variously described as a "talking sandwich" and a "cheese covered crab," and those descriptions are not far off. This thing is the only interesting part of the movie, and by interesting I mean you're so disturbed by it, it's hard to divert your eyes from it. It looks like a giant mushroom with hands; it speaks in an Italian accent and is covered with what looks like vomit. The movie looks like it was filmed in a couple hours. It makes Ed Wood look like Robert Altman by comparison. Throw a dart in the video store, and you'll hit something that's a whole lot more entertaining than this crap.
Better Than Zarkorr 2005-01-04
If any of you have ever seen Zarkorr! The Invader, you will know this same movie is made by the same company. Although, Zarkorr does have its own problems which I state in my review of that film.
Kraa is a film that is a VERY cheap B movie; but besides that, the monster costume is just breathtaking and the acting is very good considering it is a very cheap film. Not to mention much better than Zarkorr.
Like Zarkorr, the only scenes we see the monster, Kraa, in is when he is destroying minature cities. He doesn't fight any military whatsoever and just goes stomping around. While it does get old pretty quick, the story is what keeps you in your seat because it is pretty good. Not to mention Kraa does look fabulous.
Overall, what can I say? The film was a cheapy to produce but for what was given, the film is pretty good but nothing spectacular. I based my rating of it on being a monster film and not as a regular film. If I had done that, it would get about 1 or 2 stars. But as a nice monster film, it serves its purpose.
Big goofy monster makes for big goofy fun. 2004-01-17
Lord Doom is tired of sitting in the middle of a cold, dead planet. He wants to live somewhere that is warm. So he instructs his dwarf henchman to send planet destroyer Kraa off to Earth to wipe out its civilization, thus making a takeover easier. The Planet Patrol gets wind of this horrid plan and attempts to stop Lord Doom. But Doom anticipated this and knocks their Death Star kinda thingie into self-destruct mode. The Patrol does manage to send an operative to Earth to stop Kraa though. His name is Mogyar and he kind of looks like a cheese covered crab, and he takes in an Italian accent!
Oh how I love this small, dumb movie. It rips off everything that was popular in 1998. Godzilla, The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Star Trek, Men In Black, and it even tosses in Masters of the Universe for good measure. I doubt that words can get across how gleefully stupid I think this thing is.
Kraa! The Sea Monster was one of two attempts at making old school style Kaiju funness by Charles Band's once Paramount funded Full Moon Pictures. The other was Zarkorr! The Invader. By 1998 the deal with Paramount was finis and Band was on his own. Still with a little bit of cash (and a studio in Romania) he attempted to keep up the crank 'em out fast ethic alive. Under the Full Moon umbrella such smaller 'speciality' productions were founded. Pulsepounders (for tween entertainments), Surrender Cinema (for the *ahem* mature audiences), and Monster Island Entertainment (which distributed Zarkorr and Kraa) are the three I clearly remember, but I am sure there were one or two more. Sadly the whole operation crashed and burned within a year or two and, for awhile, Band floundered. Ever the astute survivalist though, Band has rebounded and Full Moon lives again! So Kraa! The Sea Monster now sees life on DVD. Sadly director Aaron Osbourne (or Dave Parker) contributes no commentary. Heck, I doubt there are even any chapter stops! There are some trailers, but parents be warned. Most of the trailers are for Full Moon's skin exposing output, which makes this juvenile friendly movie a rather juvenile unfriendly disc release sadly enough.
Clearly Kraa is aimed at kiddie's, what with its teen heroes dolled up as Star Trek convention attenders and acting like they are Power Ranger style defenders of the galaxy. Sadly they spend most of the movie trying to fix their busted Death Star station while the talking cheese covered crab attempts to convince the MiBs that he came in piece and can stop Kraa. There is a generous amount of building smashing and the monsters are goofy looking (look close when Kraa smashes through the power lines, you can see the man in the suit's chin behind the teeth) yet still kind of cool looking (well Kraa is). The only down side is that the dwarf henchman isn't played by Phil Fondacaro. Mr. Fondacaro is one cool dude. The dwarf in this movie, while I am sure he is a nice enough fellow, just doesn't hold a candle to the coolness that is Phil Fondacaro. We need more movies with Phil Fondacaro.
I wish that Full Moon had done more Kaiju!
Absolutely dumb! 2004-01-15
This movie has a talking sandwich in it, how could you not like it? The acting is wooden, the special effects are laughable (even for a B movie), and the plot is rather vapid and torpid to say the least. The monster, however, looks cool, but don't expect anything grand if you see this. I mean this is to bad to even be on Sci-fi!!!
