- Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim
- Directors: Mick Jackson
- Writers: Billy Ray, Jerome Armstrong
- Producers: Andrew Z. Davis, Lauren Shuler Donner, Martha R. Cotton, Michael Fottrell, Neal H. Moritz
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English, French
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- MPAA Rating:
- Studio: Fox Video
- Release Date: Jun 1 2004
- Run Time: 104 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 630528072X
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#15,285 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #31 in DVD > Action & Adventure > Disaster Films
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Get mindless for awhile with this 1997 disaster flick, starring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles as a funky place for lava to spew, plus Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche as the brave souls who know how to shut off the spout. Director Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) wastes no time getting to the good stuff--it's happening even before opening credits are over--and neither should anyone in the mood for technical efficiency without the burden of art. --Tom Keogh
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Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano pushes to the surface, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city. Experience the pulse-pounding thrills as the dream capital of the world erupts into the stuff nightmares are made of.
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don't bother
Feb 2 2003
Format:DVD
My husband and I saw this movie when it was in the theater. It is very, very boring. The storyline is bad, and the acting is also bad. The only funny part is when this guy melts into the lava, and I don't think that was intended to be funny.
Everytime I see a bad move, I think, "Well, I suppose it was better than Volcano."
Vapid Volcano Vomits Vilely
July 21 2001
Format:DVD
Quite simply, there is no particular reason to see this film. If you are a fan of the actors involved, you won't be particularly impressed by what they do with what little they are given. If you are a fan of special effects, the best they come up with is, well, stuff that looks a lot like lava. If you go crazy over disaster movies, you might sleep though this one. If in-depth character studies revealing the ironies of the human condition are your thing, the screenwriters manage to go no further than exploring the predictable morality-play trivialities of any disaster movie since The Towering Inferno. If you can't tell what's going to happen to each character within minutes, you must have dozed off. Volcano doesn't even make a challenging game of "Spot the Cannon Fodder". If you are a fan of films featuring seismic activity your time is better spent with Dante's Peak. And certainly, if you enjoy good plots with plenty of suspense and unexpected twists, there's nothing for you here. Sure, it is unexpected for the residents of LA to wake up with a volcano erupting in Wilshire Boulevard, but that's no surprise to the film-viewing public, given the eponymous title (and I don't mean the movie is called "Wilshire Boulevard"!) And if, by some strange twist of fate, you've got a special thing for pyroclastic flows in all their glory, there's not even a mention of the possibility of that horrible fate in store for LA's denizens.
Now, if Mick Jackson and his band of merry men had worked in an ending in which massive mutant magma men lurch limberly from the lava and hurry horribly to Hollywood, where they totally terrorize Twentieth Century Fox into producing their putrid picture--a vile vision of an LA volcano that vomits forth massive mutant magma men who...
Believe me, it would be more interesting. Heck, this movie would be more interesting even if it just had a character who constantly chatted in alliteration....
Worst Movie Ever
Jan 2 2008
Format:DVD
This movie is the stupidest movie I have ever seen. It seems the researchers, writters, directors, and special effects people all decided to have a compition. The winner: the person who did their job the worst way possible.
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Starring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles
I have always suspected the tar pits of being a hot bed of adversity. And who knows what those nasty faults are planning for us. Read more
Published on Oct 22 2006 by bernie
Haha, what were you people expecting? Pyroclastic flows?
I think, overall, this is a good disaster movie. I mean, are you ever REALLY looking for a realistic scenerio in an action flick? Read more
Published on April 20 2004
I think I lost some IQ...
This has to be one of the dumbest movies...ever...Yes ever...Seeing this movie I think my IQ dropped 20 points from it's stupid storyline and totally impossible happenings as a... Read more
Published on April 14 2004
A stale and lame piece of junk
Is it fun to watch? Yes. Why? Because this is so bad you can't help but enjoy. They completely and utterly disregard any realism and totally defy the laws of physics. Read more
Published on Mar 2 2004 by Tom Servo
valcano rocks on!
I love the movie valcano. I recemend it only to people who like horror and death movies becuse valcano is one of them. Read more
Published on Feb 23 2004
LAVA MY LIFE
Okay, people: when you went to the theater or rented or bought the VHS or DVD, JUST WHAT WERE YOU EXPECTING? Read more
Published on Feb 22 2004 by Michael Butts
Cheer for the Volcano!
This is a hilariously BAD "Can't we just all get along?" Golden
Turkey movie. Once you get past the preposterous notion of a
lava-flowing volcano coming up out... Read more
Turkey movie. Once you get past the preposterous notion of a
lava-flowing volcano coming up out... Read more
Published on Jan 25 2004
Enjoyable Movie But LA Were Just Lucky!!
LA faces a number of disasters including recent wildfire scorching part of surburban area. This movie is a really enjoyable panic movie reminding some of the classic disaster... Read more
Published on Nov 18 2003 by susumu-5
Almost better-than-average disaster flick
OK, now, it has some elements that were more likable than "Dante's Peak." Unfortunately, its marred by some other factors. Read more
Published on Oct 16 2003 by TrezKu13
The Feel-good L.A. movie of the summer---*any* Summer!
Los Angelenos have always had a rough and dangerous go of it. Their storied city is full of dangers and nuisances: pollution, high crime, riots, traffic jams, and earthquakes. Read more
Published on July 12 2003 by Dark Mechanicus JSG
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