Fungicide is, at very least, hilarious beyond belief. The issue you might have watching it is whether or not you care that said hilarity is an advertent or inadvertent result. The filming is low budget, the plot is wafer thin, and the effects are just plain silly, as is the plot. BUT, in such, there is some incredibly hilarity.

To give you an idea, this film has giant swordfights with human sized mushrooms that make no bone about being bad effects that explode in one hit. Cheesy gun effects. Exploding fungus. The same bit, repeated about fifty times, with ten different bits.

Actors acting knowing caricatures (one would hope) with utter fervor despite a lack of reality in any way... it’s one of those movies where you really, really hope they’re trying to make a movie that isn’t taking itself seriously, because if this movie is, it’s abysmal. But taken as a purposefully bad movie, the kind kids might make together on a weekend, it’s worth a ton of chuckles. I think the reality lies somewhere in the middle, so I’m going with the two stars.

The bad puppet mini mushroom is especially entertaining, it’s just... so... bad! But good bad. For bad bad:

Like I said, the bits are repeatable, the plot is unnecessary and drags for the beginning before they jump straight to irrational mushroom death, and the CG is well and truly awful in most respects, save when it evokes hilarity.

If you’re critical, you’ll hate the film. There are multiple plot flaws and incoherencies, and the ending is predictable and absurd in its simplicity. This movie has, literally, no subtext.

I’ve seen a lot of screeners trying to be funny, and very few have succeeded. Fungicide is at very least, as I said, utterly hilarious, purposefully or not. In the end, it gets repetitious, but if it were on TV, I’d watch it for ten minutes going, “What the HELL?” before I changed the channel, somewhat approving.

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