Actually, they made it clear (in the dialog) that the polar bear was not Godzilla from episode 1.

I know they'll let some law enforcement officers on planes with some firearms. At one time, the 44 Special was the rule, designed as it was not to puncture a fuselage. So... I don't know, but I have to wonder... do they now let a law enforcement officer on board with a handgun capable of stopping a polar bear? Whatever it was, it looked almost big enough, despite the guy's story that he took it from the officer's ANKLE holster. <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I've lost track, are we on day two or day three? No clue as to how people are spending the night, or if anyone is thinking about survival issues other than the manly Adam Sandler clone and the lady- who, it turns out, probably doesn't really want to be "rescued".

Speaking of the lady, did anyone else catch the part where guys are shouting and fighting, ignoring everything else, until she shouts "STOP!", and they all do? How well we seem to be trained. I've lost count of the dynamic, active and admirable female leads in the past 20 years (sort of starting with "Ripley" in Alien), which I don't really mind, but I could count the truly dynamic and admirable male leads in the same period on one hand. If something needs to get done competently in a screenplot these days, they genearlly choose a woman to do it. Male roles are mostly evil, inept or both... and when, rarely, the script does require a macho male, they generally pick an actor so patently wimpy for the role that it just seems ridiculous. John Wayne need not apply. Maybe Russel Crowe, once in awhile...

So, in keeping with the PC trend, whatever feeble explanation is behind Mr. Big tromping through the trees AND the polar bear, I'm betting it's the result of an evil corporation doing evil things on an island so remote that the good governments of the world won't know about it to stop them... we could write this stuff...