Synopsis
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
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Cast
- Isabelle NantyFrançoise
- Elsa ZylbersteinAlice Barelli
- Claude PerronMonique
- Stéphane De GroodtMax
- Youssef HajdiVictor Barelli
- Claire ChustJennifer
- François LevantalYonyx 7389XAB2
- Alban LenoirGreg
- Marysole FertardNina Barelli
- Hélie ThonnatLéo
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RogerEbert.com
A tougher, smarter film than American sci-fi cinema buffs are used to seeing. - 75
The A.V. Club
Subtlety has never been one of Jeunet’s tools, and the comedy in Bigbug is enjoyably over-the-top, occasionally a bit too mannered, and often laugh-out-loud funny. - 60
The Guardian
With his work now migrating online and his jerry-rigged methods increasingly outsourced to post-production effects, Jeunet can’t avoid the impending digitization of cinema, nor life. Still, he’s not going down without landing a few good fingers to the ribs first. - 58
The Film Stage
There’s a lot going on in Bigbug, yet at the same time it can feel like there’s too little meat on the bone here, particularly when stretched about two hours. It is nice seeing the filmmaker back behind the camera; you also can’t help the wish his return after nearly a decade had been with something more substantial. - 55
Paste Magazine
If only Jeunet had instilled his story and characters with a little more of that ingenuity, then Bigbug might have been a more substantial watch. - 55
Polygon
Bigbug’s garish and confusing world does linger in the mind after the credits roll, primarily because we’re only permitted to see a tiny slice of it. Trapped in the bottle, looking out, everything looks distorted and larger than life, but vaguely, scarily recognizable. - 42
Consequence
It’s impressive what Jeunet is able to pull off with a shoestring budget, but the ideas and characters underpinning his visual imagination leave a lot to be desired. - 40
The New York Times
Despite some snappy ideas (an aggressive advertising drone pushing products as answers to the family’s every problem), Bigbug is overdressed, overlong and diminishingly amusing