BigBug - Movie Reviews (2024)

It is part dystopian drama, part comedy farce. Full of child-like imagination but surprisingly horny... And yet, Jeunet must have performed some form of alchemy because all of these elements work well together.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2024

Netflix’s oddball film Bigbug is bonkers, for better or worse. Probably worse.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 5, 2022

Big Bug is a total disaster: conceptually, cinematically, and narratively. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 15, 2022

"Bigbug" yearns to be so strange with every grotesque high-angle close-up, every wacky development, and it certainly achieves that thick air of strangeness.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 21, 2022

Bigbug is a French sci-fi comedy from the director of beloved movies, and the propensity for Rube Goldberg devices and absurdity play to the strengths of a story about technology run amok.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2022

No one grows. No one changes.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2022

Went on for too long with the same nonsense and bugged me by becoming increasingly unfunny

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 26, 2022

As plastic as Saran Wrap, as warm as Saran Wrap and as amusing as a puppy wrapped in Saran Wrap.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 24, 2022

Here, Jeunet’s bright colors and prankish manipulation of space makes a suburban home and its lookalike environs an appropriate carnival atmosphere. Big Bug turns a spiritual and political pandemic into a three-dimensional funhouse mirror.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2022

Wacky! What is what it is.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2022

I would say this is not a masterpiece, but it's very amusing.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2022

While this can be a little wearisome, its playfulness is also underscored by casual scenes of book-burning and hypnosis that chip away at a darker message about the dangerous ways tech can fuel authoritarianism.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 23, 2022

As with a lot of Jeunet’s work, it’s so fanciful as to put the teeth on edge (the eyes too, if live-action Jetsons isn’t your thing), but his world is well-realised and bleakly plausible. Exhausting, yet full of wit and invention.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2022

Occasionally, the director registers a dry aside about the cost of living with tech, only to be drowned out by his own racket.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 17, 2022

A satire that despite being futuristic, feels outdated in many ways. Full Review in Spanish

Full Review | Feb 13, 2022

“Bigbug” has colors that pop and a cast that knows how to milk the humor with some energetic performances.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2022

More exhausting than inventive, dishing out a few good ideas about domestic life in the not-too-distant future amid jokes that tend to play like relics of the past...

Full Review | Feb 12, 2022

With its Frankensteined stitching of sci-fi satire and sexual farce, "Bigbug" trades the humanity and longing found in Jeunet's best for ceaselessly finger-wagging, CGI-heavy spectacle thats intermittently engaging but often exhausting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 12, 2022

Big Bug is a highly binary film. Its very much a love it or leave it kind of thing...a highly specific combination of dystiopian sci-fi, satire, and locked door existentialism. Personally, it pushes my buttons. As it were.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 12, 2022

It’s impressive what Jeunet is able to pull off with a shoestring budget, but the ideas and characters underpinning his visual imagination leave a lot to be desired.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Feb 12, 2022