Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing; a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...Even if it costs him his life.
The film is too lazy to provide any actual jokes with its send-up of the genre.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
9 Jul 2012
fresh:
Craven tries to do this 'veggie-man' horror in a suitable DC Comics style; and with Louis Jourdan as arch-villain 'Arcane', not to mention Adrienne Barbeau (Mrs John Carpenter) as the Thing's object of desire, he's definitely on the right track.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
fresh:
One of those movies that fall somewhere between buried treasures and guilty pleasures.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
[The film] wants desperately to be funny and, from time to time, it is. However, you might wish it would trust the audience to discover the humor for itself.