Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Cast: Elsa Zylberstein , Isabelle Nanty , André Dussollier , Claude Perron , François Levantal , Alban Lenoir , Youssef Hajdi , Dominique Pinon , Sebastien Gill , Claire Chust , Corinne Martin
Plot: In a quiet residential area, four domestic robots suddenly decide to take their masters hostage in their home. Locked together, a not-quite-so-blended family, an intrusive neighbor and her enterprising sex-robot are now forced to put up with each other in an increasingly hysterical atmosphere! While, outside, the Yonyx, the latest generation of androids, are trying to take over. As the threat draws closer, the humans look elsewhere, get jealous, and rip into each other under the bewildered eyes of their indoor robots. Maybe it's the robots who've got own soul -- or not!
My Movie Review: The movie is a satire that can quite be polarizing either you like or not, I'm leaning more on the like side despite its oddball presentation there's something genius about it! Bigbug is one of the most quirky yet highly enjoyable if not slightly creepy movies I've watched in with great effects and a unique story bit of sci-fi, robot mutiny, and eclectic storytelling! Fantastic performances by the cast and a great soundtrack that's been well scored, I like their creepy Yonx androids as they were super evil and very scary not everyone will enjoy the fun! This was cool to me it's a French movie so I watched it with subtitles as the performances are better but there is an English dub that actually changes the way it feels especially the androids! Almost like watching a tweaked version of the original as it feels way more menacing I highly recommend it if you like unique movies, French is the way to go though there's something rare! Bigbug is ultimately a very smart, singular piece of film-making, a sparkling comedy that lifts the spirits and dazzles the eyes as written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, Bigbug filmed on a single stage set, delivers artificial-intelligence suspense with doomy vibe' just like Cassandra! It's a hugely clever and engaging film that defies expectations with a sly warmth that sneaks up on you it's smart enough to temper comedy in a tense robot uprising exposes humanity's flaws!
Critics Consensus: Jeunet fans will find the whimsy they seek within BigBug, although it isn't enough to make this mishmash more than intermittently engaging. It is part dystopian drama, part comedy farce. Full of child-like imagination but surprisingly horny... And yet, Jeunet must have performed some form of alchemy because all of these elements work well together. No one grows. No one changes. Bigbug is a French sci-fi comedy from the director of beloved movies, and the propensity for Rube Goldberg devices and absurdity play to the strengths of a story about technology run amok. Netflix’s oddball film Bigbug is bonkers, for better or worse! Probably worse. Big Bug is a total disaster: conceptually, cinematically, and narratively. Went on for too long with the same nonsense and bug me by becoming increasing unfunny! "Bigbug" yearns to be so strange with every grotesque high-angle close-up, every wacky development, and it certainly achieves that thick air of strangeness. Here, Jeunet’s bright colors and prankish manipulation of space makes a suburban home and its lookalike environs an appropriate carnival atmosphere. Big Bug turns a spiritual and political pandemic into a three-dimensional funhouse mirror. Wacky! What is what it is. I would say this isn't masterpiece' but very amusing!
