Last night I watched Savage Planet, a sci-fi original movie. The premise of the movie was something like this: Earth is too polluted to be sustainable, so they are going to some other planet via teleporter so they can fix earth, or something. Unfortunately the new planet is this horrifying deathworld what will kill everything, ever.

They convey the fact that the planet is a horrifying deathworld by pitting our expedition team against a pack of giant, hyperintelligent, malicious bears. There is some betrayal, lots of gratuitous cheesy blood, decapitations, disembowelments, and badly written romance subplots. If you like bad movies, this is a movie you definitely need to check out.

Like most sci-fi original movies, it features some things that were done right. Some of the acting is decent, though certainly not stellar. The sets and props are much better looking than your average B-movie sets and props.

But everything is predictable. Characters die when they get isolated, either by going off alone or by tripping over something. The exception to this is when the isolated characters are not being followed by the camera. The bears are apparently attracted to cameras. The intrigue within the party was either predictable or contrived, and where it was contrived, even the writers seemed to recognize that it was a weak premise–the characters soon forgot about it when the traitor apologized, with only a few token nods to that end.

But yeah, man. Bears will eat you. That’s what I learned here. Science Expedition vs. the Bears? THE BEARS WIN.