Infestation

Infestation (2009): Well, first it was “Infested” and then came “Infestation”. The important difference here is that Infested was about a lot of little bugs while Infestation has large numbers of large bugs. The cover art warns you not to take it too seriously with the tag line “Prepare for Global Swarming”. This one is a tongue in cheek, campy story about what happens to an underachieving office nerd who wakes up in a cocoon and has to fight off large bugs intent on taking over the world. Everyone in the area is cocooned and his small band of survivors must save the world. Now this less than choice group of strangers is burdened with many of the typical stereotypes found in big bug movies. And this is one of the most argumentative groups to ever task themselves with combating incalculable numbers of large stinging, running, jumping and flying buggers. Cast mortality is quite high and the bugs prove to be a hardy lot. What set this movie apart from the run of the mill bug movie were its witty dialogue, good character interactions, and liberal use of humor. The ending scene shows a sign of signaling a sequel but a second serving certainly seems sorely missing so far. Overall, this was an above average “B” movie that shows what can be done with decent actors, a modest budget, and good writing, even if it was shot in Buglaria. The movie bugged out an R for: naked weather girl, excessive barfing ‘o’ the green, excessive buggery, excessive arguing, excessive dad’s ego, milking the bug, non-electric deadly hybrids and for the very flammable bug juice.