IMDb plot summary: 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.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Zylberstein, and Claude Perron.
BigBug is a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film set in a near future in which the robots are starting to rise up and declare war against the humans. The androids working at one particular house decide to help save their humans, and so they trap an eclectic group together in that home and work to persuade the humans they're on their side. This is a VERY Jeunet film, with creative use of color and startling close-ups and a darkly quirky sense of humor. Sometimes that really works for me, other times it's a harder sell, but this is pretty much a slam dunk. I absolutely adore the robot design, especially the villainous Yonyx, and I lve how seamlessly futuristic technology is integrated into this world. The humor is definitely broad and cartoonish at times, but what else could it be with this kind of visual aesthetic? These themes of what it means to be human and how tech interacts with that have been explored before, and Bigbug doesn't break any new ground in terms of what it has to say on these topics, but I so thoroughly enjoyed myself that I didn't mind at all. This movie isn't for everyone, but I had a great time with it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
BigBug > Jesus Christ Superstar (2000)
BigBug > Safe
BigBug < Secretary
BigBug < Nope
BigBug < City Lights
BigBug > The Paper
BigBug < A Boy and His Dog
BigBug > Big Man Japan
BigBug > Mirage
BigBug > The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
BigBug > Madam Satan
BigBug > Sisters
Final spot: #833 out of 3705, or 77%.
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