Wow! Such a good movie.

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

One of my all time favorites.

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Spoilers herein.I have a particular fondness for films that spread out over many plots and characters. There are all sorts of reasons to do so. Scoping out why one would do this and figuring why it works if it does is a sweet pleasure. Often (not here) the stories include stories about just such figuring.One reason to spread the story is simply because you can and that you can make the mechanics of passing the thing we watch. In its time, `Nashville,' then `Short Cuts' was shocking just because they had short cuts. We noticed the varieties and switching more than the episodes themselves.`Bug' follows that tradition but these days you have to really emphasize the transitions because we have gotten so used sliced and diced narrative. So we have this Rube Goldbergian machine that is itself the focus of this project. Life is as much a matter of passing energy as it is at stewarding. Okay as an idea, but after an hour, the novelty doesn't grab us any more.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.

As a producer of indie movies and a harsh critic of such, I have to say I loved this movie. It is funny and intelligent, well directed and entertaining. Hats off to the producers and directors for making a good one! I'll be watching for the next one. I gave it a 10.

"Bug" starts with a kid squishing a bug and from there launches into chain reactions which affect the lives of a handful of people. A budget conscious indie with a so-so cast and obvious cost cutters throughout, "Bug" doesn't manage to accomplish much beyond its novel approach to story telling. In the heap of "common denominator" flix which seem to be "All the Rage" from the hit "Magnolia" with crisscrossing subplots to the mutual friend drama "Love in a Time of Money", "Bug" is at the bottom. Mediocre stuff best saved for as a boredom-breaker broadcast watch. (C)

I Last night I had the pleasure of seeing the movie BUG at the Florida Film Festival and let me say it was a real treat. The Directors were there and they did a Q&A afterwards. The movie begins with a young boy smashing a roach beneath his foot, a man who is nearby parking his car sees the young boy smash it and runs to ask the kid `why? why? did he have to kill that living creature?' in his rush to counsel the youth in the error of his ways, the man neglects to pay his parking meter, which starts off a whole chain of events involving people not at all related to him, some funny, some sad, and some ridiculous. This movie has a lot of laughs, Lots! and there are many actors which you will recognize. The main actors who stood out in the film for me were: Jamie Kennedy (from his comedy show the Jamie Kennedy Experiment, playing a fortune cookie writer; John Carroll Lynch (who plays Drew's cross dressing brother on the Drew Carey show) playing the animal loving guy who just can't get it right; Brian Cox (The original Hannibal Lecter in Manhunter) playing the germaphobic owner of a Donut and Chinese Food Take Out joint. There is one line where Cox tells his chef to wash off some pigs blood that is on the sidewalk by saying "clean up that death" which is quite funny mostly because of Cox's "obsessed with germs" delivery. The funniest moment in the movie comes when a young boy imitates his father, whom he heard earlier in the day yell out `MotherF*****', while in the classroom. Another extremely funny and surreal scene is when Trudie Styler (Mrs. Sting herself) and another actor perform a scene on a cable access show, from the film the boy in the plastic bubble. The actor who hosts the cable access show is just amazing he is so serious and deadpan and his performance as both the doctor and the boy in the plastic bubble is enthralling. There are many other fine and funny actors and actresses in this film and having shot it in less than a month with a budget of just about $1 million, the directors Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi (who are screenwriters by trade, having written crazy/beautiful and the upcoming Tuxedo starring Jackie Chan) have achieved a film that is great, funny and endearing.