Bigbug

Name: Bigbug
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy
Released: February 11, 2022
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Alban Lenoir, André Dussollier, Claire Chust, Claude Perron, Dominique Pinon

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): February 11, 2022 | TV-MA

Starring: Alban Lenoir, André Dussollier, Claire Chust, Claude Perron, Dominique Pinon, Elsa Zylberstein, François Levantal, Isabelle Nanty, Stéphane De Groodt, Youssef Hajdi

Summary: In 2050, artificial intelligence is everywhere. So much so that humanity relies on it to satisfy its every need and every desire - even the most secret and wicked. In a quiet residential area, four domestic robots suddenly decide to take their masters hostage in their own home. Locked together, a not-quite-so-blended family, an intrusiveIn 2050, artificial intelligence is everywhere. So much so that humanity relies on it to satisfy its every need and every desire - even the most secret and wicked. In a quiet residential area, four domestic robots suddenly decide to take their masters hostage in their own home. Locked together, a not-quite-so-blended family, an intrusive neighbor and her enterprising sex-robot are now forced to put up with each other in an increasingly hysterical atmosphere! While, outside, the Yonyx, the latest generation of androids, are trying to take over. As the threat draws closer, the humans look elsewhere, get jealous, and rip into each other under the bewildered eyes of their indoor robots. Maybe it’s the robots who’ve got a soul – or not!… Expand

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Comedy

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 111 min

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Johnny Oleksinski

Feb 11, 2022

While Bigbug is characteristically eccentric, it also has the most mainstream appeal of any Jeunet film since “Amélie.” Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Feb 11, 2022

A tougher, smarter film than American sci-fi cinema buffs are used to seeing. Read full review

Carlos Aguilar

Feb 11, 2022

Subtlety has never been one of Jeunet’s tools, and the comedy in Bigbug is enjoyably over-the-top, occasionally a bit too mannered, and often laugh-out-loud funny. Read full review

The Playlist Nick Allen

Feb 13, 2022

This movie has Jeunet doing “The Jetsons” while ruminating on what a robot uprising might inevitably look like, but that proves to be less exciting than one could ever imagine. Read full review

Collider Ross Bonaime

Apr 12, 2022

After a decade away, Jeunet has returned to embrace all of his worst eccentricities to create an absurd mess. Read full review

Clint Worthington

Feb 11, 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. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Feb 11, 2022

The result is an aggressively unfunny look at human-robot relations in a garish, cartoonishly rendered future. Read full review

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ScotterMonkey

Aug 24, 2023

Ah the genius of Jeunet! Love the imagination, pacing, and humor! Laughed my ass off. Loved how the differing personalities interacted. There is also a powerful message here about becoming too dependent on technology, as well as the dangers of how choosing safety over freedom can lead toAh the genius of Jeunet! Love the imagination, pacing, and humor! Laughed my ass off. Loved how the differing personalities interacted. There is also a powerful message here about becoming too dependent on technology, as well as the dangers of how choosing safety over freedom can lead to oppression. Overall, a superfun film. Also, I see others here saying it is slapstick comedy. Sure, it has that element, but also, many other levels of humor. I guess you have to "get it".… Expand

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AprilCBodner

Aug 24, 2023

I enjoyed every minute of it and didn't want it to end! The colorful faux-retro-50's-future was so fun! The fascination with humanity and sex from the robot side was hilarious. Highly recommend!

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Strop77

Feb 20, 2022

Thoroughly enjoyed it, interesting concept & a well executed film that I will gladly watch again in a year or two.

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Mauro_Lanari

Mar 16, 2022

(Mauro Lanari)
Jeunet restarts from the scope of his excellent sci-fi movie "Alien 4" (1997), transforms it into an at times ferocious anti-bourgeois satire that evokes Buñuel and Ferreri, concludes by dying out in a harmless nervous breakdown caused by the claustrophobic pandemic lockdown:(Mauro Lanari)
Jeunet restarts from the scope of his excellent sci-fi movie "Alien 4" (1997), transforms it into an at times ferocious anti-bourgeois satire that evokes Buñuel and Ferreri, concludes by dying out in a harmless nervous breakdown caused by the claustrophobic pandemic lockdown: of his own will or under pressure of Netflix?… Expand

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alejandro970

Jul 24, 2022

The 64 million dollar question here is: what the hell happened to the director of Amelie and A Very Long Engagement? The idea of making a satirical criticism of the excess of technology and its dependence short-circuits a few minutes after starting to see it, especially because of itsThe 64 million dollar question here is: what the hell happened to the director of Amelie and A Very Long Engagement? The idea of making a satirical criticism of the excess of technology and its dependence short-circuits a few minutes after starting to see it, especially because of its characters with whom it is not possible to sympathize. Better luck next time? I wish!… Expand

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JLuis_001

Apr 27, 2022

It's a proposal outside of more conventional standards, certainly that has merit, but it's unable to generate any kind of genuine emotion that could set it apart from feeling like an episode of Black Mirror on drugs, and as a result it gets to feel exhaustive after a while.

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bertobellamy

Feb 12, 2022

We have our first contender for the worst movie of the year.

Almost a decade after his last feature film, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is back with a bizarre sci-fi comedy that satirizes the singularity and human dependence on technology. The problem is it doesn't work at all. 'Bigbug' is like aWe have our first contender for the worst movie of the year.

Almost a decade after his last feature film, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is back with a bizarre sci-fi comedy that satirizes the singularity and human dependence on technology. The problem is it doesn't work at all. 'Bigbug' is like a Saturday morning cartoon but for adults. Jeunet goes full bonkers creating an absurdist tale in which nothing makes sense. There's a ton of characters here, but none of them are funny or interesting; in fact, everyone's annoying. Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant's screenplay incorporates every sci-fi convention: robots trying to be human, hypercapitalism, evil AIs, global disasters... But the plot goes nowhere. Every intent on making a commentary about whatever is overshadowed by a wide variety of sex subplots that only purpose maybe was to get us to see these people half-naked almost all the time.

Miss the old days when Jeunet was making engaging art-house films with Marc Caro.

If you want to see something similar but better, check out the "Automated Customer Service" episode of 'Love, Death & Robots' season 2. Now that's how you make robot apocalypse fun.… Expand

2 of 4 users found this helpful22

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