Good idea lost in the noise

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This is a Nu-Image film so you know what to expect right? You put the film on, keep your head down, and hope that you're not going to be too bored by the end. However, Spiders manages to rise head and shoulders above the rest as an honest b-movie full of little quirks and plenty of gore, stupidity, and geeks firing rocket launchers from helicopters at rampaging giant spiders.Our heroine Marci is a reporter for some college paper who believes in UFOs and Aliens and keeps dragging her two colleagues to news stories that never pan out. After getting a tip off from an 'alien' that a certain place is controlled by a secret government agency, she heads out their with her mates just in time to see a space shuttle crash right in front of her! Inside the shuttle, they witness the aftermath of some horrific event and get to talk to a swollen up pilot, but not before some G-men turn up and whisk him away to an underground bunker. What are the government trying to cover up?Well, the title might give you a clue. If you try and analyse this film on any level, then a) you'll be disappointed and b) why are you trying to apply intellect to something like this? Spiders is just an excuse for daftness, gore, giant spiders flipping over cars, with loads of little references thrown in for giggles. Apparently this facility has JFK and Jim Morrison's body in storage (keep an eye out for them). I liked this one. No pretensions. No dull spots. Nice bladder effects and the corpses of the astronauts reminded me of Luigi Cozzi's Contamination. Also, there was a spider bursting out of a guy's body with such force the guy just exploded - How can you hate a film that has that in it?

OK now the idea for this movie is something really cool considering that the Spiders pull an Alien laying their eggs inside of people and with the whole Area 51 set up all ending with the 1 spider going on a rampage through the city at the end, But! the performance was very disappointing, had the cast been better executing their roles and putting more emotion (well the lead girl did a pretty good job), not to mention if the effects were a lot better this movie would b a hit, sadly it just turned out to be a movie with a ton of potential but falls short with the final cut. I have to say that the lead girl did a good job with her character, having her start off as an average young lady trying to make her way and gradually turning into a character that resembles Ripley from the Alien Franchise. Her role and the plot r the only 2 things that make this movie watchable.

Spiders (2000, Dir. Gary Jones) A DNA experiment on a rare breed of spider is taking place on a NASA space shuttle, when a freak meteor shower engulfs the shuttle, causing everything to go horribly wrong. One survivor is found on the ship and watched over in a secret location deep in the California desert. The problem continues, as the survivor isn't alone, as another deadly spiders climbs out of him and goes on a rampage around the ship. Curious reporter Marci Eyre must now survive, escape and warn everyone before the spider reaches outside the desert.When i purchased this movie for 99p (in UK), i wasn't expect a great movie. Normeally these movies have bad effects, bad acting and a terrible script, but i was totally surprised about this film. 'Spiders' is an enjoyable film from start to finish. Naturally the story isn't original and there are a few cheesy lines, but overall the script had a nice twist. The acting was actually very good and quite professional for this film. The special effects wasn't the best, and seemed flawed in a few places, such as the spider changing sizes, but it's not the worse. There are a few scenes which look wonderful on film, particularly the spider flipping the car. Overall, this is a wonderful film to watch, but i should add something. If you want a shorter version of the film, then watch the trailer (well, at least the trailer on the DVD), as the trailer reveals everything, including the deaths. Enjoy "'Mother-in-law' is in the building." - Agent Gray (Mark Phelan)

Starting off as a tense and reasonably scary movie, in the end it just gets, as simply as possible, stupid. The movie starts off with three nerds who decides to sneak into nowhere for some reason, and then a space craft hits the ground (when I say space craft, I mean a cheap 99p rocket bought from the Early Learning Centre) and they see a mutated crew member who was impregnated with a spider, which was mutated by, yes, you guessed it. Radiation. Original. Chumps. Then, the 3 members of geek-squad somehow get inside an underground base, and the spider hatches out of the crew member who they found in the shuttle. (Don't worry Alien fans, the spider crawls out of the mouth, not the highly original chest-burster.) Then you get to the part where the thing starts to chase everyone around, killing for no reason what-so-ever, and slowly, the scary-o-meter (1 being tellitubie scary, 9 being Alien and 10 being Napoleon Dynamite) drops from 5 to 4, and eventually, the main evil guy gets impregnated. The geek squad falls from 3 to 1 (you can guess which one survives from the very start) and once the last geek-member escapes with her new friend, the scary-o-meter goes from 4 to 2. Once outside, they both bump into the evil guy, who some how managed to break away from being completely wrapped in web and from the spiders layer and never tells us how, and he blows up to reveal a medium sized spider(think of Eight Legged Freaks spiders, but a bit smaller) and now the scary-o-meter reaches -4. As soon as the spider is on the loose, the two "heroes" go outside to see the helicopter that the evil guy was on, just parked in car park with people just walking past it, despite having a top-of-the-range bazooka with live ammunition on the back seat, which has no door what-so-ever, and the keys miraculously still in the ignition. Then, they fly over the city and an anti-climax follows where the spider gets blown up and then the film immediately finishes when everyone goes "yay".What really lets the movie down is that it thinks it can be a comedy/horror/action film all in one, a mixture that takes a master of a director to get over, this film would only be really good if Spielberg would have trouble of doing this piece of garbage. The actors are totally uninspiring, and in one scene, the woman geek's hair style changes when shes in a lift.Therefore, I would like to end this review on this final note:Thank the lord I bought this for only £1.99