Barton wants to capture the beast because he thinks the Gil-Man could be more than just a Devonian evolutionary dead end.
Now healed, the beast is one again swimming around, being his watery self. William Barton (Jeff Morrow) leads an expedition to the Florida Everglades where the Creature was last spotted (back in the previous film where the ending of that film made it seem like the Gil-Man had been shot and killed). The studio found a new idea, but in the process they lost the thread of the Creature to the point where he no longer feels like the main character in his story, nor the monster we were wanting. The issue with this film isn't the story, which actually is quite different from the previous two films, but instead the fact that they drastically change the creature to the point that he's barely the same monster (and nowhere near as interesting).
So I get why they went in such a different direction with the second sequel, The Creature Walks Among Us. The problem is that the first sequel they came up with, Revenge of the Creature, was just a rehash of the first film all over again. Considering the production formula the studio was using for its various monsters, it was clear they needed to find a way to make a number of sequels (i.e., milk the franchise) for this monster.
Back in the day they have a really great monster they created on their own, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and it's first film was a hit.
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