| 50 |
Variety
Smoothly maneuvering within the limitations of genre conventions, Bats emerges as a vigorously paced and surprisingly satisfying piece of work.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
Perfect late-summer drive-in fare.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
In its own B-film, let's-make-them-jump-out-of-their-seats way, Bats is quite the hoot.
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| 50 |
Mr. Showbiz
A sleek rip-off of "The Birds" that is fast, furious, and watchable, but lacking in the two elements most essential to a silly screamfest like this: scares and laughs.
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| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly
Doug Brod
The kind of rote schlocker that rarely makes it to big screens anymore.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Overlong, hard look at the perils of tampering with Creation.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
A straight-faced throwback to the glory days of mutant wildlife on the rampage.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
If you are unlucky enough to stray into the presence of Bats, I strongly recommend you follow their wise example. Hang from the ceiling and go to sleep.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
Unfortunately, it isn't until the final scene -- a spoof of the horror genre's false-ending cliché -- that Bats really takes wing.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Really just an update of the kind of hapless grade-Z effort that once played the bottom half of a drive-in double bill.
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| 35 |
TNT RoughCut
Everything in it is old bat.
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| 30 |
Los Angeles Times
So uninvolving it scarcely matters what it looks like.
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| 30 |
Film.com
Pours on some of the most ridiculous dialogue heard in a feature film in a long time.
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| 30 |
Film.com
So campy...may be good for a few laughs.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
Phoebe Flowers
Dumb cliches run amok.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
Violent and vapid, but the visual jolts may please horror buffs.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
A dimwitted, fill-in-the-blanks horror opus that slanders a fine and useful mammal.
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| 25 |
Boston Globe
A reassuring little cheeseball of a movie.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Falls apart immediately, then limps on for 45 minutes more.
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| 25 |
New York Post
Not especially scary or funny, this lame comedy-thriller wastes a decent cast in a plodding tale.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
Cause for fright in only one respect: the possibility that it could spawn sequels.
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| 20 |
Dallas Observer
M. V. Moorhead
A work of hilarious, nearly Ed Wood-worthy ineptitude.
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| 10 |
Film.com
An amazing compendium of dumb behavior, bad dialogue, and incoherent direction.
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| 10 |
Washington Post
Hopeless rip-off of Hitchcock's "The Birds."
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| 10 |
Chicago Reader
All I saw were unimpressive digital effects; artless, quick-cut abstracted gore; and a last-ditch attempt to evoke a visceral response by heaping the climactic scene with bat shit.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
It's relentlessly bad in a way that just makes those theatre seats plain uncomfortable.
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