{"id":26920,"date":"2017-11-14T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26920"},"modified":"2017-11-14T21:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T02:00:42","slug":"cute-little-buggers-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/cute-little-buggers-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Cute Little Buggers (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s a reason why sometimes a one off joke is used just once. It\u2019s because stretching it out destroys the momentum of the joke. Someone behind \u201cCute Little Buggers\u201d loved the scene in \u201cThe Holy Grail\u201d involving the man eating cute rabbit and decided to turn it in to a horrendous horror comedy. Not that I have anything against movies that take inspiration from Monty Python, but when they have a rhyme or reason, and an actual good idea, I\u2019m all for it. But \u201cCute Little Buggers\u201d seems centered on the premise of one joke that one joke that gets boring after being used repeatedly mainly since the joke just isn\u2019t that funny in the beginning, anyway.<\/p>\n

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Someone just looks down at our film\u2019s monster, coos \u201cIsn\u2019t that a cute bugger?\u201d and they\u2019re then violently eaten. At first I found it slightly amusing, but it just gets so tiresome by the third time someone mutters what becomes the crutch of the whole of the film. To make things worse, the creatures themselves aren\u2019t even all that interesting, with the monsters presented as CGI models of rabbits that grow fang covered maws like Venus Flytraps; and badly animated ones at that. Melchior returns to his hometown in England to deliver the news of his mother\u2019s death to his long lost father. Sadly, as the reunion is bitter, Melchior learns that his high school love Rose is engaged to a pompous jerk named Charles.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile aliens are hovering above Earth kidnapping their women and impregnating them for the sake of spawning new monsters. As a town festival ensues, the discovery of mutilated bodies hasn\u2019t stopped the mayor who insists on keeping the annual celebration going.\u00a0 When Rose comes under danger by the alien kidnappers, Melchior has to save her and fight off the evil spawn. \u201cCute Little Buggers\u201d seems to commit all the errors of monster movies, as it\u2019s too long, convoluted, and spends at least twenty minutes of screen time before we ever see the film\u2019s titular monsters. What we do see though, are some well made, but dull aliens that are watching the villainous monsters wreak havoc from above almost like a weak take off of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d Halloween episodes.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t bemoan Tony Jopia for wearing his influences on his sleeves, but \u201cCute Little Buggers\u201d suffers for taking from what inspired it, and using them ad nauseum. I went in to \u201cCute Little Buggers\u201d hoping for a schlocky take on \u201cNight of the Lepus,\u201d or perhaps a neat twist on the mini monsters run amok genre. Sadly, Jopia\u2019s bad writing, and direction, matched with the awful acting, droning narrative, and downright awful title monsters make \u201cCute Little Buggers\u201d a chore to sit through. I love \u201cso bad it\u2019s good,\u201d it\u2019s just sad that the film is so bad–and that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n