Bigbug

We enjoyed this movie pretty well!

Incredibly refreshing. Something different for a change.

It's an interesting movie with an unique aesthetic. Watch it if you like absurd.

Definitely a very odd movie. Very French. I enjoyed it, but I only recommend it to those who have an appetite for the absurd.

**crazy, artsy, impressive, smart, funny, shallow, little substantial over-the-top Sci-fi Comedy Satire**


Jeunet is back and it's amazing what he can do on a tight budget.

It's a smart film, unfortunatelly with a small world building and with a running time of about 2 hrs, it feels like there could have been more substance to make this movie greater.

Nevertheless, it's an over-the-top sci-fi comedy with great actors and stunning production values, set designs and effects.

Somewhere between Blade Runner, The Terminator, Delicatessen and Jaques Tati, this movie is recommended for everyone who is fed up with all that american sci-fi uniformity. Bigbug is entertaining and crazy and shows again, why Jeunet is such a gifted filmmaker.

Watch and enjoy the trip.

I felt the finale was a bit anticlimactic, and it drags a little in the middle, (I'd say 10 minutes edited out in total from different scenes throughout would have tightened the pacing just the right amount) but I found the film refreshingly different, and I was laughing early and often, as intended. It's still French Sci-fi, with its bizarrely manic-quriky-weird trademarks, but it's Science Fiction in the way that most "sci-fi" cinema isn't, in that it's focused on the speculative and satirical aspect over the "action film with science fiction window dressing" standard, of most any Hollywood sci-fi film, or something that Luc Besson would do (okay, _Valerian_ actually had a better premise than _The Fifth Element_, but it had none of its charm or casting perfection, whereas _Fifth_ is a classic despite its ridiculously stupid Sci-Fi dialogue and plot. _Lucy_ was an insult to... well, everyone.)

However, it's not lacking in visual flair. Alice's antique robots were all unique and believable (well, maybe Monique was more of a joke gimmick that didn't always work well) and the Yonyx designs, while clearly reminiscent of Robo-Cop (obviously a very intentional evocation), manage to actually outdo the original. And the electrocution, etc. special fx actually had me glued to the screen.

It's mostly satirical in how it approaches clichés of human behavior, relationships, and modern corporate technoculture, but the part later in the film between François and her sex bot was shockingly sincere and touching. It's actually got a lot of quotable lines, and screen grabs that would be prime reaction meme bait.

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SINCERITY 64%
SEXUAL URGE 80%
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ERECTION 100%
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I also appreciated the menacing and manic murder glare and unsettlingly large-toothed grin of the Yonyx robocops. Disturbingly fitting, and I think it should be the go-to template for whatever robo-shit death machines Boston Dynamics and Raytheon end up creating to scorch us meatbags into submission in the coming decades. If we're going to make "Down in the Park" into reality, then at least give them a face that we can aim for.

Another robot revolution. The bad guys looks a lot like Robocop.

We need more unique and quirky films like this one. Shades of Snowpiercer. A glimpse into the World or Tomorrow we were all promised.

Like the beginning of the lockdown: cute, but quickly becomes predictable and tedious.

This COVID movie about a group of people confined to their residence by robots benefits from an amazing cast and a high production value but the imagination that went into the world building was cruelly lacking in the satire, humor and storyline.

Well this one was definitely badly made but it hooked me still and did have some hidden humour in it and most of all the film had the what the fuck vibe to it.