movie review - Bats
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
This is an unbelievably bad movie. It's not purposefully "bad" in the way that Rocky Horror Picture Show is, or even entertainingly bad Anaconda is bad.
I mean, it's not Armageddon bad, mind you (only one movie is that bad), but it commits the following atrocities:
- it's dumb
- its plot glosses over such frivolities as character motivation and development of the few ideas it does bother to introduce
- it's dumb
- it's about as predictable as a Spelling production
- it's dumb
- the bats are laughable
- it's dumb
I don't know why anyone made this movie. They try for the cheesy thrills and quips introduced in The Blob and elevated by such memorable gems as that one with the super sharks, the one with the spiders, the aforementioned Anaconda, of course, the um one with the crocodile, and so on (Man's Best Friend, Cujo, etc). And, to be fair, they actually achieve a fair measure of success with this, when the only character to show signs of intelligence announces that they should just leave the scene.
Not recommended.