Where's Val and Earl?

Rating: Null/10 (15 June 2004)

About halfway through this movie, something occurred to me. I was watching what Tremors would have been without a charismatic star, likable supporting cast and a neat monster. A bunch of people, stuck in a desert, hunted by a bunch of blind creatures, who have to choose between waiting in a safe place until they starve to death, or making a dangerous run to safety through the jaws of the beast. Only these chicken-bats (their primary attack seems to be pecking you to death) aren't nearly as cool as graboids. Heck, they're not even as good as the shriekers from Tremors 2.
And can I just say that the liberal use of the f word in this movie seemed like nothing more than a desperate attempt to make the characters sound "tough" and "real"? I've never seen a movie where every single f-bomb dropped felt so forced. I can just imagine the writer sitting down with his finished script and saying "I'll put one here, and one here, and one in this sentence..."