Bigbug (2022)
director: | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
release-year: | 2022 |
genres: | comedy, scifi, romance |
countries: | France |
languages: | French |
You remember Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie (2001), the lovely, quirky, and colorful film featuring many close-ups of interesting human faces? Well, he's back with a quirky and colorful film featuring many close-ups of interesting human faces.
![The fit every color in this bad boy. The fit every color in this bad boy.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/33de3bd9fe4b4ae400.webp)
You know how you haven't heard anything about Jean-Pierre Jeunet since Amelie (2001)? Well, there's probably a reason for that.
![Or maybe you have, I don't know. Or maybe you have, I don't know.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/2bb2db6ea6783dde00.webp)
Bigbug is a sci-fi comedy about household appliances gaining sentience, and using their sentience to defend the humans against the murderous government drone androids that also happened to become sentient at the same time.
![A house meeting to discuss if we should continue watching this film. A house meeting to discuss if we should continue watching this film.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/11730c91c0f7059b00.webp)
It's also a romantic comedy.
![Which just makes things worse. Which just makes things worse.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/49e4c140770b46e200.webp)
Unfortunately for us, it's a long series of overtly sexual slapstick jokes that start off uninteresting and repetitive right from the intro, and don't get any better.
![It would have made an ok short film. It would have made an ok short film.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/55e06e0e9180176100.webp)
The best thing about it is the vacuum cleaner.
![We also get colorful close-ups of interesting robot faces. We also get colorful close-ups of interesting robot faces.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/989213534a1acd7100.webp)
It's nice that Jean-Pierre has discovered CGI and sci-fi.
![It must have had a huge CGI budget. It must have had a huge CGI budget.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/e72831f859082d0e00.webp)
Next time, maybe he'll discover good writing.
![or nature documentaries. or nature documentaries.](https://bio.amoo.se/processed_images/dc69155f5016587500.webp)