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Bug Buster: Sci-Fi Comedy

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Yes, James Doohan and George Takei, STAR TREK's Scotty and Sulu, are in this movie. Doohan has more screen time as the sheriff, but Takei as an eccentric scientist, looks like he stepped right out of a Japense scifi flick.
BUG BUSTER, an entertaining little flick, has an identity crisis that works against its overall effectiveness. Is it a horror movie with comic touches or is it a comedy with horror touches? It's not out and out satire like the Scary Movie series, and it seems to want to take itself seriously, even with Randy Quaid's over the top General George, the pest eliminator. At any rate, director Lorenzo Doumani keeps the movie going along pretty well and has some unique things going for it.
First, here we have Bernie Kopell (from LOVE BOAT) and Anne Lockhart (June's daughter) playing the parents of premenopausal Katherine Heigl. And they get their own love scene..it's nice to see people past the age of 50 having the desire to have sex and show their love for each other.
As for the bugs, the real roaches are quite repulsive, and even the giant one at the climax is effectively disgusting. Downtown Julie Brown has a "cute" cameo as the reporter for FU2 t.v., where she blatantly extols the calamities happening in the little town of Mountainview.
Another unique touch: Trailer Trash, the band in the lodge's lounge, featuring Melba Toast and ?, is hilarious.
Entertaining, but its identity crisis, keeps it from being better. Oh, Brenda Doumani who plays the veterinarian is effective, and probably related to the director? Anyway, she also sings the movies closing credit song, "Virtue", which is about as bad as a song can get!

The early portion of Katherine Heigl's career seemed to promise a great deal of upcoming success. But after her release of Wish Upon a Star , things have gone terribly downward, it seems. Bugbusters, was the latest, and prime example. In an age of young actresses succeeding in Hollywood as if there's no tomorrow, why hasn't Heigl made it? She showed brilliance in all movies she put out up to 1996, but since then, there's been nothing. I still maintain she's a fine actress, and seems to be one of Hollywood's very nice, caring young women.However, in Bugbusters, she had to resort to images of "near nudity (The bathtub and shower scenes)." What's up Hollywood? Why is it that you're not giving this young, pretty actress the time of day?

Bug Buster was one of the greatest movies I've seen in a long time. I enjoy sci-fi and fantasy movies, and this one was amazing. It was funny, serious and even exciting. What more could you ask for in a movie. The actors were also great, especially Katherine Heigl!

A B-movie full of cliches and stupidity, not to mention plot twists that just didn't seem to have been properly thought out in advance. I usually like kitsch, low-budget comedy-horror flicks -- they can be a lot of fun. But this one was just painful to watch, to the point where I found myself counting down the minutes until it was over. The wonderful cast of actors and actresses deserved better writing and directing than this movie offered them. Illogical, inane, and insipid, this movie is one I wish I'd never watched, and one I definitely will never watch again. I would have given it one star, but I felt the cast deserved better, hence my rating of two.

Then again, I have to admit, for all its faults, it was still better than 'Disaster Movie'. As is a colonoscopy without an anaesthetic.

This flick is just plain, old-fashioned fun! Cheap thrills and special effects, but the hilarious Randy Quaid and the ever sexy Meredith Salenger and Katherine Heigl more than make up for it. Good "Friday Night Popcorn Flick"! Lacking in the Extras department, but worth a look.

OK, there are two reasons why this film gets 5 stars. You Katherine Heigl fans know what I mean.

Here Heigl's family moves to a small west coast town being pleagued by giant bugs. And only the cast of 'Star Trek' can save her.

For a B movie the production is suprisingly good.

For those of you disapionted by Heigl's recent films 'Valintine' and 'Evil Never Dies' have no fear. Thoses film stunk because Heigl barely had any screen time. In 'Bug Buster' she is truly the main character and does what she does best, taking baths and showing.

I'd probably rate this film third after 'Wish Upon a Star' and 'Prince Valient' (where is that DVD?)

If your a guy wondering "who in Katherine Heigl?" Look her up on the internet. Then come back here and order this film.

BUG BUSTER is one of those rarest of fright films: it knows when not to take itself too seriously even if it does not know when to frighten and when to amuse. The Bug of the movie is the Mother Bug, a flying roach that looks exactly like what is it, some guy on wires wearing a bug suit. It is hard to imagine even small children being fightened, but it is far easier to see that the audience is titillated by overlapping waves of corny dialogue, cheesy special effects, and guest appearances by Star Trek's James Doohan as a corrupt small-town sheriff and George Tokei as a demented entymologist. The plot is nonsense, of course. A Mother Bug lays eggs that threaten everyone in town. This theme of insectoid mother love we have seen before. ALIENS showed us how it could be presented in a serious vein. But here, in BUG BUSTER, everything is played for laughs. Randy Quaid steals the show as exterminator General George, who squares off in a boxing match with the Mother Bug in a scene that pays homage to Charles Dutton, who tried much the same in ALIENS 3. The result of this slugfest is a microscopic metaphor of the joy that a Big Bug movie can bring if only it refuses to take itself too seriously.

The movie was good and entertaining but, i found some of the people
just to nice and easygoing for this type of movie. Scotty from Star
Trek is just too nice of a sheriff and cares too much... and some
of the scenes look like they were all shot on the same day and then
edited into their righfull places in the film. So bottom line is
this is a good but not perfect bug/creature movie that is worth at
least one viewing.

What excellent choreography! What fabulous casting! What supurb special effects!! what more to say about this truly honest, simple yet *intense* cinematic portrayal of a downright irreducible,intrinsic and unadulterated fundamental film!! I give this an utter 5 stars of perfection. Recently debated was this topic between the greatest Low Budget Films (herein LBF) produced. "Mosquito," the past champion, was firm in its first place, and although there were many close contingencies, the final count was won over for "Bug Buster." A MUST SEE for all LBF movie fans. The casting will awe you. The motive will make you smile. And the action special effects inherent, from decaying flesh, to up close explosions, these characteristic EFX will wow you and make you mad at the same time. "Bug Buster" is a favorite for all fans.

Gee, viewer from Ohio...why so harsh on those who watched the movie! I thought it was great for what it was worth. My roommate and I always get a funny/supposedly scary movie to watch just to make us feel better. For a low-budget film, I rate it amongst the best...right up there with the horror flick Mosquito. I love watching films that you know are not going to be scary, yet they are funny and self-relieving. So, let up off the low-budget horror flick, "Bug Buster"...I like it and I do have a life...a very good one at that! To everyone else, take the film for what it's worth! Obviously, by looking at the cover in the movie store you can see what type of film it is...just remember...it's meant to be funny and to me it is. Mr.Ohio needs to chill out and not take it too seriously! Take it for what it's worth!