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BigBug

2022

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Elsa Zylberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Claude Perron, Stéphane De Groodt ...

4.6

1,490

Sci-Fi. Comedy A group of bickering suburbanites find themselves stuck together when an android uprising causes their well intentioned household robots to lock them in for their own safety.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Jean-Pierre Jeunet demonstrates the perils of total creative freedom (...) an overloaded Netflix production that’s big on ideas, but sorely lacking in discipline."	NEG
United Kingdom	Charles Bramesco The Guardian	"A hit-and-miss comedy (...) Jeunet takes far more interest in things than the people he leaves as thin archetypal sketches (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"'Bigbug' is at once relentlessly busy and oddly static, a Peloton ride to nowhere very interesting (...) Despite some snappy ideas 'Bigbug' is overdressed, overlong and diminishingly amusing"	NEG
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz rogerebert.com	"There's something else going on beyond virtuoso demonstrations of directing and production design (...) A tougher, smarter film than American sci-fi cinema buffs are used to seeing (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Carlos Aguilar AV Club	"His mad-scientist concoctions ambitiously swing for the fences, with no half measures in their aesthetic choices or romanticized interactions. Sometimes they miss the target, but they never fail to spark curiosity"	NEU
United States	Ross Bonaime Collider	"Too scattershot and obnoxious for its own good (...) A satire too broad and too irritating to be effective (...) After a decade away, Jeunet has returned to embrace all of his worst eccentricities to create an absurd mess"	NEG
United States	Carlos Aguilar The Wrap	"The comedy in Bigbug is enjoyably over-the-top, occasionally a bit too mannered, and often laugh-out-loud funny (...) There’s no duplicating Jeunet. He’s an imperfect original."	NEU
United States	Charles Pulliam-Moore The Verge	"[It highlights] the absurdity that comes with living through extraordinary times (...) A solid romp that's made infinitely better by putting your phone down and giving its wild world your full attention"	POS
United States	Aurora Amidon Paste Magazine	"Where Delicatessen carved out a new, original kind of dystopian film, especially in its nuanced characters and their complicated motives, Bigbug unfortunately falls quickly into the realm of the predictable."	NEG
United States	Mitchell Beaupre The Film Stage	"A limp futuristic social satire (...) It is nice seeing the filmmaker back behind the camera; you also can't help the wish his return after nearly a decade had been with something more substantial"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A dreadful sex farce set during the robot apocalypse (...) A genial but excruciating comedy (...) [A] eature-length cluster headache"	NEG
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"'BigBug' is grand on personality (...) There are some clever futuristic touches (...) [It] is big fun (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	M.N. Miller Ready Steady Cut	"Oddball film 'Bigbug' is bonkers, for better or worse. Probably worse (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter	"Strictly for fans of the veteran writer-director at his most outré, this sci-fi satire is often more exhausting than inventive"	NEG
United States	Oli Welsh Polygon	"[Its] garish and confusing world does linger in the mind after the credits roll (...) Trapped in the bottle, looking out, everything looks distorted and larger than life, but vaguely, scarily recognizable"	NEU
United States	Nick Allen The Playlist	"The future is all a joke to Jeunet, and that exciting premise loses its zip from such a demanding script (...) It smells like a robopocalypse, but 'Bigbug' is so scatterbrained that even this threat becomes tedious"	NEU
Canada	Josh Bell CBR	"Jeunet's visionary creativity suffers a severe downgrade in 'Bigbug'. It's more baffling than daring, failing to live up to its potential for social commentary or surreal world-building"	NEG

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