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The Gill Man’s second sequel starts off okay and gets progressively worse. It’s cool enough while a team of scientists are hunting the Creature, especially when they catch him on fire (the highlight scene of the movie), but once they capture him and begin experimenting on him, the movie takes a nosedive. You’ll have to forget that genetic mutation doesn’t happen overnight. And then you’ll have to say goodbye to the iconic Creature design. When the genetic mutation begins, he mysteriously transforms into a docile, Refrigerator Perry-sized behemoth with a humanoid face (why cast a much larger man halfway through the story?) The third act sees the Creature observing human behavior and relearning his violent ways. As two inferior sequels prove, you can take the Creature out of the Lagoon, but you can’t take the Lagoon out of the Creature.