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My kind of humor! Colorfull, goofy and fun, with good effects and great acting! Very stylish, beautiful scenography. I love this surreal story, quirky dialogs and subtle commentary on the condition of society... I had a great time!

I enjoyed every minute of it and didn't want it to end! The colorful faux-retro-50's-future was so fun! The fascination with humanity and sex from the robot side was hilarious. Highly recommend!

Ah the genius of Jeunet! Love the imagination, pacing, and humor! Laughed my ass off. Loved how the differing personalities interacted. There is also a powerful message here about becoming too dependent on technology, as well as the dangers of how choosing safety over freedom can lead to oppression. Overall, a superfun film. Also, I see others here saying it is slapstick comedy. Sure, it has that element, but also, many other levels of humor. I guess you have to "get it".

The 64 million dollar question here is: what the hell happened to the director of Amelie and A Very Long Engagement? The idea of making a satirical criticism of the excess of technology and its dependence short-circuits a few minutes after starting to see it, especially because of its characters with whom it is not possible to sympathize. Better luck next time? I wish!

It's a proposal outside of more conventional standards, certainly that has merit, but it's unable to generate any kind of genuine emotion that could set it apart from feeling like an episode of Black Mirror on drugs, and as a result it gets to feel exhaustive after a while.

(Mauro Lanari) Jeunet restarts from the scope of his excellent sci-fi movie "Alien 4" (1997), transforms it into an at times ferocious anti-bourgeois satire that evokes Buñuel and Ferreri, concludes by dying out in a harmless nervous breakdown caused by the claustrophobic pandemic lockdown: of his own will or under pressure of Netflix?

Thoroughly enjoyed it, interesting concept & a well executed film that I will gladly watch again in a year or two.

It is dazzling, fascinating, and equally funny and scary. Like "Don't Look Up," it sounds the alarm for the limitations and failure of our blind faith in technology, and like that movie, seems to be polarizing in its confrontational message. Although Jeunet's film has a much human-friendly resolution. I'm looking forward to watching it again, as it is packed with imagery and gags.

Bigbug is a French science-fiction slapstick comedy film. Slapstick is not particularly popular among American adults. Slapstick is popular in France. There was a lot of good acting talent in this film - but, slapstick just makes it seem wasted to an American. Cinematography, costumes, props and sets were very good. The style of the film was unique and interesting. The parallels of 1950's design and technology in conjunction of the future is worth thinking about. The script was topical - but, lacked depth. I'm guessing that this film is more well received in France than the US.

Nice effects and vision of the world , but it's boring as hell. ****!!!!

We have our first contender for the worst movie of the year. Almost a decade after his last feature film, Jean-Pierre Jeunet is back with a bizarre sci-fi comedy that satirizes the singularity and human dependence on technology. The problem is it doesn't work at all. 'Bigbug' is like a Saturday morning cartoon but for adults. Jeunet goes full bonkers creating an absurdist tale in which nothing makes sense. There's a ton of characters here, but none of them are funny or interesting; in fact, everyone's annoying. Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant's screenplay incorporates every sci-fi convention: robots trying to be human, hypercapitalism, evil AIs, global disasters... But the plot goes nowhere. Every intent on making a commentary about whatever is overshadowed by a wide variety of sex subplots that only purpose maybe was to get us to see these people half-naked almost all the time. Miss the old days when Jeunet was making engaging art-house films with Marc Caro. If you want to see something similar but better, check out the "Automated Customer Service" episode of 'Love, Death & Robots' season 2. Now that's how you make robot apocalypse fun.