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Summary: Sumptuous!
Review: Bug Buster combines goofy humor, great acting, and powerful storytelling. It is a timeless tale about bugs and the intricate world they inhabit. On the surface, the film is about just this, bugs, but upon deeper inspection the film comments on the tenderness of the human heart and the comprehensiveness of human compassion. Don't miss this touching tale about so much more than insects.
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Summary: You Need Not Take It Seriously to Like It
Review: BUG BUSTER is one of those rarest of fright films: it knows when not to take itself too seriously even if it does not know when to frighten and when to amuse. The Bug of the movie is the Mother Bug, a flying roach that looks exactly like what is it, some guy on wires wearing a bug suit. It is hard to imagine even small children being fightened, but it is far easier to see that the audience is titillated by overlapping waves of corny dialogue, cheesy special effects, and guest appearances by Star Trek's James Doohan as a corrupt small-town sheriff and George Tokei as a demented entymologist. The plot is nonsense, of course. A Mother Bug lays eggs that threaten everyone in town. This theme of insectoid mother love we have seen before. ALIENS showed us how it could be presented in a serious vein. But here, in BUG BUSTER, everything is played for laughs. Randy Quaid steals the show as exterminator General George, who squares off in a boxing match with the Mother Bug in a scene that pays homage to Charles Dutton, who tried much the same in ALIENS 3. The result of this slugfest is a microscopic metaphor of the joy that a Big Bug movie can bring if only it refuses to take itself too seriously.
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Summary: You Need Not Take It Seriously to Like It
Review: BUG BUSTER is one of those rarest of fright films: it knows when not to take itself too seriously even if it does not know when to frighten and when to amuse. The Bug of the movie is the Mother Bug, a flying roach that looks exactly like what is it, some guy on wires wearing a bug suit. It is hard to imagine even small children being fightened, but it is far easier to see that the audience is titillated by overlapping waves of corny dialogue, cheesy special effects, and guest appearances by Star Trek's James Doohan as a corrupt small-town sheriff and George Tokei as a demented entymologist. The plot is nonsense, of course. A Mother Bug lays eggs that threaten everyone in town. This theme of insectoid mother love we have seen before. ALIENS showed us how it could be presented in a serious vein. But here, in BUG BUSTER, everything is played for laughs. Randy Quaid steals the show as exterminator General George, who squares off in a boxing match with the Mother Bug in a scene that pays homage to Charles Dutton, who tried much the same in ALIENS 3. The result of this slugfest is a microscopic metaphor of the joy that a Big Bug movie can bring if only it refuses to take itself too seriously.
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Summary: What a GREAT Movie!!
Review: Bug Buster was one of the greatest movies I've seen in a long time. I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy movies, and this one was amazing. It was funny, serious and even exciting. What more could you ask for in a movie. The actors were also great, especially Katherine Heigl!
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Summary: What a GREAT Movie!!
Review: Bug Buster was one of the greatest movies I've seen in a long time. I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy movies, and this one was amazing. It was funny, serious and even exciting. What more could you ask for in a movie. The actors were also great, especially Katherine Heigl!
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Summary: Well finally Kathy has been given some break
Review: Cast her on some more movies...
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Summary: Where No Movie Has Gone Before...
Review: Comical supposed "horror" movie with the doctor from "Love Boat" (Bernie Kopell), Sulu (George Takei) and Scotty (James Doohan) from "Star Trek", and Isabel (Katherine Heigl) from "Roswell", as well as co-star of those wonderful "Vacation" movies, Randy Quaid.The whole thing with the bugs and the dark and the water was pretty darn far-fetched. If you are a horror movie fan, this is NOT the film for you. Randy Quaid as a twisted exterminator-general -- that's about the only scary thought in the movie. But if you want see former Trek dudes die, it's all right. But let's face it: this movie would have been pretty darned unwatchable without Katherine Heigl in it. She looked the best I had ever seen her look (at least until the June 2000 Maxim shots). She has some acting talent as well, though you would not be able to discern it from this flick. More Heigl and less Scotty in the future works for me...
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Summary: You've got to take it for what it's worth!!!
Review: Gee, viewer from Ohio...why so harsh on those who watched the movie! I thought it was great for what it was worth. My roommate and I always get a funny/supposedly scary movie to watch just to make us feel better. For a low-budget film, I rate it amongst the best...right up there with the horror flick Mosquito. I love watching films that you know are not going to be scary, yet they are funny and self-relieving. So, let up off the low-budget horror flick, "Bug Buster"...I like it and I do have a life...a very good one at that! To everyone else, take the film for what it's worth! Obviously, by looking at the cover in the movie store you can see what type of film it is...just remember...it's meant to be funny and to me it is. Mr.Ohio needs to chill out and not take it too seriously! Take it for what it's worth!
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Summary: What can you say about this movie except..... WHAT THE HELL?
Review: I recently saw this movie and man did it suck! The scenes with bugs crawling in and out of people were cool, but it was justa retarded movie. First off, lets talk about the comedy in the movie(If thats what you want to call it!) They tried(and I do mean tried to implant some comedy into this movie, and failed miserably! Let's take a look at the scene when General George has a fist fight with the mother cockroach. Would someone please tell me why? General George runs out of amma and starts to throw punches while swearing at the roach. The mother roach throws one mean backhand bitchslap and General George pulls out a grenade and pulls the pin and drops it. It explodes with General George less than two feet away and he walks out alive. Just horrible! This movie will cause you to do cruel and unusual things to bugs! Don't watch unless you don't have a life. The one star is only because I couldn't give lower than a one star rating. If you are one of those sick people that watch this mess.
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Summary: One of Heigl's best films
Review: OK, there are two reasons why this film gets 5 stars. You Katherine Heigl fans know what I mean. Here Heigl's family moves to a small west coast town being pleagued by giant bugs. And only the cast of 'Star Trek' can save her. For a B movie the production is suprisingly good. For those of you disapionted by Heigl's recent films 'Valintine' and 'Evil Never Dies' have no fear. Thoses film stunk because Heigl barely had any screen time. In 'Bug Buster' she is truly the main character and does what she does best, taking baths and showing. I'd probably rate this film third after 'Wish Upon a Star' and 'Prince Valient' (where is that DVD?) If your a guy wondering "who in Katherine Heigl?" Look her up on the internet. Then come back here and order this film.
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