Big Bad Bugs

Now this is a sci fi channel movie so you know its going to be fairly cheap and shoddy from the outset. Usually these films have a vaguely recognizable actor or actress in the title role (usually someone from Stargate or Stargate Atlantis) but this film hasn't. The plot for what its worth has a renegade Army scientist opening up a wormhole in a cave that causes insects to grow to a huge size. A team of Seals and a couple of Scientists are sent to plug this vortex before it swallows the world.

Now these films can be entertaining but this is at the lower end of the spectrum for these creature features.Interesting to note that as spiders get bigger there skin becomes bulletproof to the point where a team of a dozen people can empty assault rifles into it without hurting it but a man with a knife can easily dispatch it. Also because the are bigger their brains are bigger so they become smarter (we know this true because of all the dinosaur astrophysicists).

To sum up its pretty bad, the special effects are weak even by sci fi channel standards and the pacing is dire. The finale is quite entertaining in a ludicrous way. Overall, I'd recommend you avoid this unless you are one of those people who get a kick out of watching bad movies.

Interesting concept but concerning number of 1 star reviews, still thought I would give it a chance. What a waste.

The cinematography wasn't bad, so why not watch some more? The acting by some of the cast was fair ... maybe ... but others were just plain awful.

OK, rule #1: the movie goes the way of the script. That's when you find out this script was non-existent. If you don't know about a topic get some advice. The conversations/actions of the soldiers sound and perform like the were written by high schoolers. Whoch leads to some of the other rules. One of my favs: if you have never held a gun in your life don't take on the role of a soldier. It looks STUPID. Yeah, you cast members, you know who you are.

My main reason for seeing 'Big Bad Bugs' was it being part of my on going/on and off "seeing low budget films out of curiosity" quest. Expectations were conflicted, with the premise being somewhat intriguing if silly and with the potential to be a guilty pleasure. With it not looking particularly good and the low rating, part of me was nervous, but saw it anyway with an open mind and with the intent to not take it too seriously.

Which unfortunately was very difficult to do, because everything was executed so amateurishly. Making it an ehausting and frustrating watch. There was a serious temptation to turn 'Big Bad Bugs' off very early on, but being a fair reviewer who always gives films etc a proper chance and never judges something without seeing the whole thing (find it very immature and why people do it and brag about it is lost on me) that temptation was resisted.

'Big Bad Bugs' really is as terrible as the low ratings and negative reviews have indicated, actually being worse than what the advertising made it look like. Wanted a ridiculous if fun guilty pleasure, got instead a worse than incompetent mess and one of the worst films seen in a long time.

Don't know where to begin criticising, but the extremely cheap production values would be a good starting point. The special effects for the goofy and far from menacing creatures are especially risible, with the haphazard editing close behind. The script is pure ham fisted cheese, the excessive repetition gets tiresome and it's all deadly dull.

Story-wise, it is ridiculous with a lot of draggy pacing, as a result of paper thin, often unevenful and over-stretched story-telling, and clumsy and far from tense or suspenseful action. The ending is far-fetched and completely fails to engage or excite. The performances are dreadful all round with bland and annoying characters, Ted Jonas especially only shows one emotion which is shouting.

Overall, terrible. 1/10

Wow. It's rare I can't find one single redeeming feature to provide more than one star, but this stinker deserves no better. I was hoping that Jack Plotnick's involvement would help, but although he's hysterical doing trans comedy, as a straight actor with absolutely nothing creative to work with, he was as useless and awful as the rest of the cast. Maybe if he played the character as Evie THAT would have saved this piece of dreck. At least then it would have been a comedy. The scientist fish out of water with the Marines scenario was I suppose meant to be amusing, but only came off as sad.

Instead, the only funny stuff was the basement-rate CGI. Honestly, they could have saved even more money by just having rubber toy monsters being moved by visible hands. I mean, we're talking "Birdemic"-type special effects here. Just dire.

And the military representation was plain insulting. INSULTING. It pissed me off, and I was never in the military. I can imagine how an actual SEAL feels about it. Apparently none of the minuscule budget was spent on research. Into ANYTHING.

This truly is a bad film. Bad script, bad "effects," bad acting, bad photography, bad direction, just bad bad bad. I was really hoping for humor. But that was bad, too. Avoid this one at all costs.

Jack Plotnick...I hope the check didn't bounce.

I laughed. I cried. I watched from behind the sofa with my mouth open. I was stunned.

Don't get me wrong, any amazement I felt at this movie was incredulity at the sheer amateurish antics of everyone involved with the making of this... this... I want to say film, but can't. A film has some sort of structure - a plot, acting, cinematics. But this ... thing... doesn't have anything.

I've seen better, deeper, better filmed and more thoughtful movies in the epic fails section on YouTube. This was made by a group of less talented members of a high school film club, scripted by one of their primary school siblings using an encyclopedia of clichés, and using clothes store mannequins so as not to pay real actors. Well, that is what it looks like, and I am probably doing down the film club here.

The acting is of the densest mahogany, the script is (very old) cheese from the very first word, the graphics are laughably bad attempts from the 1970's, the music hand-recorded from inside an elevator, the lighting performed with flashlights. And the director can only aspire to the greatness of Ed Wood, astonishingly making even the atrociously bad Uwe Boll look like an auteur in comparison.

The worst fifteen minutes of my life! And they brought it out in 3D as well! Amazing!