I apparently spent a good hour and a half watching the wrong movie. To make a long story short I saw a movie about killer bees in the late 90s. This is not that movie, even though it took me until the end of the third act to realize that. The good news, however, is that I still managed to find the right one afterwards. Either way I ended up watching this in its entirety, so I may as well give a review. I mean it’s essentially a worse version of Marabunta, in the sense that it’s about a bug from South America that spreads its deadly chaos when accidentally imported to the States. Why is it worse than a movie with CG that makes Tron look like Tron Legacy? Simple: it takes itself less and less seriously the more you watch it. Sure, the bee cloud effect is impressive, the opening death scene was enough to keep me hooked and there’s a scene that lasts 5 seconds, though where they attack a Maternity Ward which felt like legit horror. But other than that most of these scenes are similar to one involving a guy with Rheumatism: it’s mostly in on the joke. I want to compare it to Birdemic, but I almost feel like this movie is even sillier (despite doing a better job to link politics with why these creatures are attacking). Plus it as far as got to the point where I’m fairly sure Monty Python was more horrifying with its comedy than this movie (especially during a parade scene). Granted it seems to want to be a hard scifi horror film, it just felt like it was originally a screwball comedy that got lost in its numerous rewrites. In conclusion: it’s 70s cheese that may or may not have aged well depending on whether you’re an expert or not. I found it harmless, which is good in the sense that it aimed remarkably low for a 70s horror movie. In fact what it lacks in horror it at least makes up for in character development and lush scenery.

And that’s as seriously as I’m taking this movie because I still need to see the proper 1995 one of the same name I actually watched around that decade. - -