The Jungle

Rating: 5/10 (5 September 2004)

The idea here is simple and sexy enough to please the fans, I think. Take monsters from two different movie franchises and set them in the frame of another movie franchise (Stargate), use the Stargate to flesh out and give background context to the origins of Alien and Predator. The action and setting seem like the pitch for a video game, which works better than the story (Stargate was pretty lousy too) - if they were going to give background to these things, though, I wish they would have used something truly 'alien' like the egg-ship from the first Alien movie, rather than 'alienating' domestic (Earthy) stuff like pyramids and Aztec mythology. The hieroglyphic alien and predator icons were a gas, though.
5/10.