When Sarah, a real-life vampire, gets audited, the last thing she expects is a date. But an unlikely spark with IRS agent, James, forces two misfits to confront whether they have the courage... Read allWhen Sarah, a real-life vampire, gets audited, the last thing she expects is a date. But an unlikely spark with IRS agent, James, forces two misfits to confront whether they have the courage to commit the radical act of falling in love.When Sarah, a real-life vampire, gets audited, the last thing she expects is a date. But an unlikely spark with IRS agent, James, forces two misfits to confront whether they have the courage to commit the radical act of falling in love.
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Lovely film about seeing the weirdness in us all and loving each other for it! Throw in Vampires, New York City and the IRS and you have a gem!
Great movie for a Saturday night! A lovely romance story about people who appear opposites but have more in common than they think. Both grow stronger in being their own person as a result of knowing each other, and these shifts are skillfully portrayed as the movie progresses. The leads, Christian and Naomi, are really good and it has an interesting backdrop of the real vampire subculture.
In contemporary America, and presumably elsewhere, there are a lot of subcultures that have an expectation that whatever ostensibly weird thing it is they're into is honest, real, and completely harmless, if not virtuous. The corollary is that you should be fine with it, and even if there are some things about it that don't make a lot of sense, you should politely nod, say something like "that's very interesting," and not try to poke holes in it. Which this movie flatly tells you, so there's not much doubt about this being its main message. Because it revolves around this, your enjoyment of it is likely to depend on where you stand on accepting such things, like that there are real-life "vampires" who (from their POV) need to drink blood. (This is a 100% real thing, in the real world; they ain't making it up.) Enthusiasts of unconventional subcultures are likely to enjoy the message and representation, while the more conservative among us will probably be turned off by it.
Coming from what I feel like is a middle ground on this, it's a middling movie. It has a real intention to be a "rom-com," so it follows a familiar formula, while trying to use that familiarity to comment on the message at hand. It's somewhat successful there, and the plot has above-average smarts, relative to the world of rom-comery. It can be somewhat sweet and amusing, but the comedy is very broad, often crossing into corniness, and still, as someone who doesn't completely buy into the message, it isn't funny enough to let me wholly sympathize with plucky vampires trying to get away with tax evasion.
Coming from what I feel like is a middle ground on this, it's a middling movie. It has a real intention to be a "rom-com," so it follows a familiar formula, while trying to use that familiarity to comment on the message at hand. It's somewhat successful there, and the plot has above-average smarts, relative to the world of rom-comery. It can be somewhat sweet and amusing, but the comedy is very broad, often crossing into corniness, and still, as someone who doesn't completely buy into the message, it isn't funny enough to let me wholly sympathize with plucky vampires trying to get away with tax evasion.
"Bite Me" has such an incredible blend of the classic and the irreverent. The structure and the tone is reminiscent of the best heart-warming rom-coms of yesteryears - it's the kind of joyful love story you see so rarely these days. And while it deftly adheres to a familiar narrative construct, there's nothing formulaic or predictable about it - it's utterly unique. It's something we've all been craving, and it's something we've never seen before. The story is about people who feel like they're on the fringes of society (for a variety of reasons) fighting for acceptance and belonging. It's a really delightful, glorious film.
OK so the friends and family of those unfortunate enough to be in this film are spamming the reviews with "10 star" ratings.
Doesn't change the fact that this film terrible, unbearably badly done in every way
Doesn't change the fact that this film terrible, unbearably badly done in every way
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Sarah explains what a "mundane" is to James, he remarks that it sounds very similar to a "muggle." Christian Coulson, who plays James, also played Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
- ConnectionsReferences The Bachelor (2002)
- SoundtracksTwo of Us On the Run
Performed by Lucius
Written by Holly Laessig, Jess Wolfe (as Jessica Wolf)
Courtesy of Epic Records
Published by Third Side Music o/b/o Wildewomen Music
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- 1h 23m(83 min)
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