Spiders II: Breeding Ground (2001)

Best movie of this year hands down!

People are voting emotionally.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Oh no! It's another Nu-Image monster movie, from the people who brought you Octopus! (1 and 2), Crocodile! (1 and 2), Shark Attack! (1-6), Whelk! (1 - 435) and Gerbil! (ongoing TV series).This time we've got Spiders, and it wouldn't surprise you to know that Spiders 2 has nothing to do with Spiders 1 (which was rather stupid and good). The film takes an awfully long time to get to the Spider rampages, but you've got a bit of mystery thrown in at first, kind of thing. After some baddies board a boat full of young folk, beat them up and kidnap them (except for one guy who gets blown up), we meet our heroes, and American couple on vacation on the sea somewhere. They find the destroyed boat, but before they can do anything about it a storm hits them, causing the boat to capsize. Luckily for them they are rescued by the crew of a huge tanker. Unluckily for them the tankers holds a secret involving spiders, mad scientists, and bad actors! This is standard Nu-Image fare, but a lot less boring than usual. There's a bit of gore thrown in, scores of spiders running about in CGI and puppet form, tons of errors, and some random happenings near the end of the film including a shot of a real spider crawling along the side of a toy boat. The appearance of the gigantic spider at the end was both pointless and hilarious. You can get this on a double disc with Spiders 1, which is a lot more fun than this one, which in itself is a lot more fun that a lot of those Nu-Image films.

let's see now... Spiders 2... ummm.... the special effects are just silly..... the dialogue is wooden, weird, and hard to take seriously... the mad scientist acts and talks and looks like a Saturday morning cartoon character... the story has lots of plot and logic loopholes, verging on the ridiculous....the story is predictable and is very very very slow moving -- we can all see where it's going, so why can't the characters?actually you could save this movie by taking out virtually all of the dialogue -- not a word of it is necessary --- then taking out redundant and unnecessary scenes -- and bringing in a better cinematographer with more knowledge about dramatic lighting. It would work okay as a silent movie, about ten or fifteen minutes long.

This movie was terrible, but in a good way. It's bad like a Mystery Science 3000 movie... If you want a bad type of bad where you're expecting something kind of good, see Sideways. But guess what? Spiders II is hilarious!!! Here's some of my favorite quotes: "First cancer... Now this??" "*snickers*" "Don't you understand what the word 'flammable' means???" And those are just a couple nuggets. There's even more to see in this stinker, and they're good'uns!! If you feel like watching a movie just to make fun of it, buy this. If you're too much of a tightwad to enjoy something this bad, don't buy it. I guess I'm not really a tightwad and that's why I liked this movie.

Since I am required to write minimum of 10 lines, and this garbage deserves not only a single one, I'll start with the following: 1. I voted AWFUL for this dreadful so called "movie".2. Let me explain why these turkeys Mr. David Varod produces are shot mainly in my beautiful homeland, Bulgaria (just in BTW, for the illiterate people around - this country is IN EUROPE, based north to Greece and has absolutely nothing to do with Mexico and Uruguay) Some years ago, NU Image has invaded our country and started making crappy mostly direct-to-video releases. Why here? Because here they pay derisively low fees to the Bulgarian crew and to the Bulgarian actors (most of them distinguished ones) which are, in many ways, better than most of their American colleagues. Personally I am ashamed of that fact. The reason is, of course, the greediness of the Americans involved and their wish to get most, if not all of the profit. Actually it would't be so bad if only the production wasn't so filthy and pale. There hasn't been a good picture shot here for years. At present NU image is being sued here over the very questionably purchasing of our national cinema production centre called Boyana Films. No doubt about it there has been corruption, there has been deceit, there has been a lies in this recent purchase. The Bulgarian cinema is dead. Long live the Bulgarian cinema!