Bigbug
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): February 11, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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88
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiFeb 11, 2022
While Bigbug is characteristically eccentric, it also has the most mainstream appeal of any Jeunet film since “Amélie.” Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 11, 2022
A tougher, smarter film than American sci-fi cinema buffs are used to seeing. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubCarlos AguilarFeb 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
60
The GuardianCharles BramescoFeb 11, 2022
With his work now migrating online and his jerry-rigged methods increasingly outsourced to post-production effects, Jeunet can’t avoid the impending digitization of cinema, nor life. Still, he’s not going down without landing a few good fingers to the ribs first. Read full review
58
The Film StageMitchell BeaupreFeb 11, 2022
There’s a lot going on in Bigbug, yet at the same time it can feel like there’s too little meat on the bone here, particularly when stretched about two hours. 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. Read full review
55
PolygonOli WelshFeb 11, 2022
Bigbug’s garish and confusing world does linger in the mind after the credits roll, primarily because we’re only permitted to see a tiny slice of it. Trapped in the bottle, looking out, everything looks distorted and larger than life, but vaguely, scarily recognizable. Read full review
55
Paste MagazineAurora AmidonFeb 11, 2022
If only Jeunet had instilled his story and characters with a little more of that ingenuity, then Bigbug might have been a more substantial watch. Read full review
50
The PlaylistNick AllenFeb 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
42
ColliderRoss BonaimeApr 12, 2022
After a decade away, Jeunet has returned to embrace all of his worst eccentricities to create an absurd mess. Read full review
42
ConsequenceClint WorthingtonFeb 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
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisFeb 11, 2022
Despite some snappy ideas (an aggressive advertising drone pushing products as answers to the family’s every problem), Bigbug is overdressed, overlong and diminishingly amusing Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerFeb 12, 2022
Imagine the rise of the machines prophesy made popular by the Terminator franchise, but done as a freaky sitcom that’s part Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, part French sex farce, and you’ll get an idea of the bizarro concoction that is Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s new film, Big Bug. Read full review
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IndieWireDavid EhrlichFeb 11, 2022
Save for dashes of Jeunet’s bespoke visual flair and an enthusiastic cast of actors whose go-for-broke performances scream for stronger material, Bigbug doesn’t resemble a late-career misstep from a beloved auteur so much as it does the product of a neural network that was simultaneously forced to binge-watch “The Terminator” and “The Dinner Game” until it spat out a shooting script. Read full review
20
VarietyPeter DebrugeFeb 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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