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- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
Summary In 2050, artificial intelligence is everywhere. So much so that humanity relies on it to satisfy its every need and every desire - even the most secret and wicked. In a quiet residential area, four domestic robots suddenly decide to take their masters hostage in their own home. Locked together, a not-quite-so-blended family, an intrusiv...
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Written By: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
- 2022
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 1 h 51 m
Bigbug
46
5.3
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Summary In 2050, artificial intelligence is everywhere. So much so that humanity relies on it to satisfy its every need and every desire - even the most secret and wicked. In a quiet residential area, four domestic robots suddenly decide to take their masters hostage in their own home. Locked together, a not-quite-so-blended family, an intrusiv...
Directed By: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Written By: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
46
21% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
21% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
46
21% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
21% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
While Bigbug is characteristically eccentric, it also has the most mainstream appeal of any Jeunet film since “Amélie.”
Subtlety has never been one of Jeunet’s tools, and the comedy in Bigbug is enjoyably over-the-top, occasionally a bit too mannered, and often laugh-out-loud funny.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 User Ratings
5.3
37% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
30% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
33% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 User Ratings
5.3
37% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
30% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
33% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
I enjoyed every minute of it and didn't want it to end! The colorful faux-retro-50's-future was so fun! The fascination with humanity and sex from the robot side was hilarious. Highly recommend!
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Ah the genius of Jeunet! Love the imagination, pacing, and humor! Laughed my ass off. Loved how the differing personalities interacted. There is also a powerful message here about becoming too dependent on technology, as well as the dangers of how choosing safety over freedom can lead to oppression. Overall, a superfun film. Also, I see others here saying it is slapstick comedy. Sure, it has that element, but also, many other levels of humor. I guess you have to "get it".
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There’s a lot going on in Bigbug, yet at the same time it can feel like there’s too little meat on the bone here, particularly when stretched about two hours. It is nice seeing the filmmaker back behind the camera; you also can’t help the wish his return after nearly a decade had been with something more substantial.
This movie has Jeunet doing “The Jetsons” while ruminating on what a robot uprising might inevitably look like, but that proves to be less exciting than one could ever imagine.
It’s impressive what Jeunet is able to pull off with a shoestring budget, but the ideas and characters underpinning his visual imagination leave a lot to be desired.
Imagine the rise of the machines prophesy made popular by the Terminator franchise, but done as a freaky sitcom that’s part Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, part French sex farce, and you’ll get an idea of the bizarro concoction that is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new film, Big Bug.
The result is an aggressively unfunny look at human-robot relations in a garish, cartoonishly rendered future.
(Mauro Lanari)
Jeunet restarts from the scope of his excellent sci-fi movie "Alien 4" (1997), transforms it into an at times ferocious anti-bourgeois satire that evokes Buñuel and Ferreri, concludes by dying out in a harmless nervous breakdown caused by the claustrophobic pandemic lockdown: of his own will or under pressure of Netflix?
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Bigbug is a French science-fiction slapstick comedy film. Slapstick is not particularly popular among American adults.
Slapstick is popular in France.
There was a lot of good acting talent in this film - but, slapstick just makes it seem wasted to an American.
Cinematography, costumes, props and sets were very good. The style of the film was unique and interesting. The parallels of 1950's design and technology in conjunction of the future is worth thinking about. The script was topical - but, lacked depth.
I'm guessing that this film is more well received in France than the US.
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It's a proposal outside of more conventional standards, certainly that has merit, but it's unable to generate any kind of genuine emotion that could set it apart from feeling like an episode of Black Mirror on drugs, and as a result it gets to feel exhaustive after a while.
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Nice effects and vision of the world , but it's boring as hell.
****!!!!
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Production Company
Eskwad,
Gaumont
Release Date Feb 11, 2022
Duration 1 h 51 m
Rating TV-MA
