I think I hated every brightly flashing headache-inducing inch of this nightmarish candy-colored melted popsicle mess of a movie. I simply found it insufferably grating and overly enthusiastic in a way that made me want to reach into the screen and yell at it to calm down. I really, really, really hated the aesthetic and the enthusiasm.

Bigbug is set in a future where everything is automated with quirky and oddball AI machines of various forms and functions. An extended family end up locked in their home by the family ‘bots and seek to find a way to escape while the ‘bots seek to understand humanity.

I was curious to see this was from Jean-Pierre Jeunet who made Amelie, which I loved. Though after watching this headache inducing soda pop crash course in kinetic candy butchery, I’m beginning to doubt that. I recall that movie being over-the-top and candybright too, but that worked for me back then. But maybe that was twenty years ago and I’d hate it now. This movie gives me that doubt.

But on top of Amelie, he made Alien Resurrection which wasn’t terrible and also probably wasn’t his fault. And City of Lost Children which was gothic and strange but something I didn’t like either. So he’s got a real mixed track record with me. I want to like his film more… the weird instincts connect with me, the results less so.

This movie though… wow. Unlikable plastic people trapped in a plastic house by plastic robots, all non-stop energy and quirk spurting out every second of ever minute. It needed to chill, to calm down, to mute its color palette by about 120%. I understand they are going for this artificial satirical thing, but they just went overboard and then climbed back in the boat and jumped out again.

Just… make it stop. The movie goes on forever and keeps adding sugar and spice and everything nice to the point my tv got Type 2 Diabetes. For almost two hours of this theoretically imaginative movie that has been done many times before… but usually at a 2 and not a 200.

I guess you could say I hated this movie. Every dippin’ dots, Jolt Cola, Pixie Stix inch of it.

Score: 55