As one of Syfy’s made-for-tv monster movies, Ferocious Planet should have your expectations pretty low going in, especially if you happened to tune in for Behemoth. Starting with the science experiment gone wrong premise, Ferocious Planet takes a band of scientists, military men, and bureaucrats to an alternate dimension’s Earth where gigantic creatures with acidic blood rule the planet. Can they survive the elements and deadly creatures? Can they repair their portal-generating McGuffin? Will they make it back to their own reality?

If you just based quality off the premise, you’d have a solid 88 minutes of Sci-Fi goodness. Unfortunately, for a movie to work it also has to have characters, they’re probably going to talk a bit, and a few things will happen to them to drive the story along. This holds true in Ferocious Planet, and because of that it’s pretty pitiful. By normal...