Cherrypicker

I actually liked this movie. The girls acted well enough especially Rosie. The storyline was intriguing. Nice ending. Watch it! Its not boring at all.

Explores childish potential for extreme violence. The four leads are actual sisters and very cute and quite spoopy. Takes place at a nice lake so there's plenty of fun swimming fun. Including the other girl, Mattia, who in the male lead's words has become "jailbait". Its not great, some scenes drag or don't go anywhere. Needed more scenes with the little girl leads, maybe something to differentiate any of them besides "she's the younger one". The effects look fine for what there is of them.

I docked it points because there is a long shot on a pack of cigarettes clearly inserted just to promote smoking. Didn't give it a 1 because they aren't shown to be used.

Four adorably blonde haired, blue eyed little girls mistake their widowed mother's rough sex play with her retired hockey player lover for a criminal assault by the latter, and accordingly determine to kill him.

A Lolita-ish baby sitter annoys them too.

The filmmakers were probably inspired by 1956's "The Bad Seed," which - unlike "Ankle Biters" - was primarily a serious psychological drama. It also had much more distinguished acting performances than this relatively frivolous exercise.

Nevertheless the frivolity is highly entertaining even though the final twist is not merely dark but jet black. But after all, it is a horror movie, albeit mostly a funny one.

The writers were THIS close to making dialogue that humans might actually say and behaviors that might be how people act. I mean, it was truly impressive to see that much effort put into almost hitting the mark. From the opening scene of Chase mutilating a player in a hockey match, I understood that I was watching something written by aliens posing as screenwriters.

This movie is neither a horror nor a black comedy. It tries to be either, but in a drunken way that just makes everyone involved seem desperate and kinda sad.

Characters are unlikable, though the little girls are kinda cute. The situations are ridiculous, and everyone seems to make the stupidest choices ever. We the viewers have to be told several times how good a mother she is, though all evidence points to the contrary. The score is always trying way too hard, and never really matches what's going on.

Even as background noise, this movie isn't good. Really should be only 2 stars, but the premise had a lot of potential in my opinion. Skip it, unless you really want to see for yourself how bad it is.

I thought it to be funny and over the top and it just wasn't that deep to give it lower stars. If you read the premise of the movie about 4 bad lil girls, all else is expected. So, enjoyed it my movie watchers were cracking up!