Diagonaldi Very well executed

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

metalrage666 Unlike the fun of other recent movies such as 8 Legged Freaks, Infestation is just plain stupid. It is supposed to be a horror-comedy but this is neither horror or comedy and is just some haphazard attempt at movie making.For some unexplained reason, large CGI bugs, which appear to look like over-sized beetles and wasps, have taken over the earth and cocooned everyone in sight.Movie starts on a typical work day and within 5 minutes a large ear-piercing noise is heard which knocks everyone unconscious. The next we know, every human being is cocooned in webs. One of them manages to wake up and sets about freeing others that are trapped. They appear to have no recollection of what has really happened but they work out they've been cocooned for several days.Pretty soon after several encounters with over-sized beetles and wasps, which thankfully manage to pick off a few of the more annoying members of the reanimated group, we learn that the bugs are largely blind and respond to various forms of noise. That knowledge however doesn't seem to stop them from walking around outside talking as if they're on a Sunday stroll, but we're not supposed to notice that I guess.The group doesn't seem to have any goal or direction except to try and lay low and get somewhere they can defend, while also wanting to get back to their various homes, loved ones etc. all of which they fail dismally at. To make matters worse, if you manage to get stung by one of these wasps, the venom doesn't kill you, it transforms you into some kind of weird spiderlike bug/human hybrid instead.There is no real story here and unfortunately this movie is only part one of what was going to be a trilogy. The movie ends on a cliffhanger after they penetrate bug hive so it doesn't really end at all. I have no idea why they would bother to make 3 movies when this mess is already too much but as of this release there has not been any other sequels planned, maybe it did poorer than expected but who knows. It's a bunch of no names reacting to CGI bugs, so budget doesn't seem to be a factor.I said this was brainless and it is. I couldn't even consider this funny as every character was just too annoying. Our main "hero" tries to rescue the bosses daughter at the start, (a boss that just fired him from his job) and while she's all woozy and disorientated, she's coherent enough to mace him in the eyes like any would-be pervert and he still manages to fall in love with her!? Yet when one of the other girls strips nude and tries to get intimate he rejects her. I'm guessing that's the black humour they were talking about, but I just found it irritating.Also in what I consider to be a massive plot hole, if the bugs respond to noise, how did they manage to locate and cocoon every single human everywhere if everyone was unconscious and not making noise? Every person in their cars, offices, homes, shops etc. are cocooned. So are we to believe there was no one who managed to be in a secluded area at the time such as a basement or windowless storeroom that managed to escape being cocooned? It's just a dumb movie that makes no sense and everyone in it is painful to watch and what's really scary is that at some point 2 more of these could be made. God help us all.

mikelang42 Well guys and galls of the USA I only found this totally fun monster flick in the bargain shelves at the local HMV store here in sunny Brighton UK by accident.Nothing like this gets to a cinema here anymore. We have the oldest cinema in the UK here in Brighton. They show mostly the best movies from abroad. The two big chains have so far come a cropper with this summers big releases from the USA. Anything with Green in the title died within a week.Thor which I saw and really liked did OK.Pirates drowned, one sequel two many,X Men failed to sore and Transformers has just opened with crap reviews,and it's 2 and half hours long.The other problem here is 3D. The cost in your wallet is awful plus the quality of projection to site is crap. Thor for instance did not need any gimmick to show a fun and well made summer movie. Its the small stuff that's putting bums on seats here, Bridesmaids a total hoot and the rotten sequel to last years Hangover. Back to Infestation. Laugh out loud movie , cracking good monsters and Twin Peak,s Ray Wise. This should of been in a multiplex near you. The good stuff just doesn't get there anymore.

thesar-2 Call it either false advertising or that I just didn't get 98.5% of the humor, but Infestation is not the Arachnophobia of the beetles.I admit I chose Infestation due to my love of When Animals Attack/Creature Features, especially tongue in cheek ones. I like this genre that generally doesn't take itself too seriously, is actually funny and never intends to be a Syfy movie of the week – those are the absolute worse and they're never even "so-bad-it's-good." I admit, this one had me at Christopher (or Chris) Marquette whom I've liked (yes, like) since Freddy Vs. Jason. (My bad, even I choose movies at times for good looking actors. Yes, a flaw, but I wouldn't have, in the case of Infestation, if it didn't have all the right advertising associated with it.)And this is my punishment. A horribly – make that TERRIBLY – edited mess of a low budget B-Movie that yearned to be more, but never had heart. That is, aside from actress Brooke Nevin who had the most drive. I don't want to knock Marquette, and he gave it his all; really, he did try. And I don't think it was his fault. It appeared that he and the writer/director was not on the same page when it came to who his character really was. I can see better coming from him, much like what I saw in Heath Ledger's early films. Also, it was incredibly unfunny. I smirked once. And I recognized where the "humor" was supposed to be, and my suspicion was the shoddy editing job took a lot of the intentions away.Sure, I wasn't expecting a horror classic, but from the (false) advertising, I was expecting at least a good and fun time with an updated bug B-Movie. I feel sorry for the actors, aside from the rancid acting by Kinsey Packard, who played Cindy, the "pretty blonde & stripping weathergirl." Bleahh. At least the rest of the cast did try and move the story along. They seemed like they believed in the project and writer/director – so Kudos to them.What starts off as a normal day in Nowhere, USA (but, of course, filmed overseas,) Nobody Cooper (Marquette) heads into work to slack and get fired. Just then, a loud pitching noise causes everyone to be "webbed" for several days. Cooper awakes and frees himself…I'll stop here.#1: They begin with the cocooning shot, I'm guessing for effect of what's to come, but there was no "Several days earlier" statement because following is that same scene is the normal setting in the same room. I could follow what had happened: They begin in the "present" where humans are imprisoned, jump back three or so days to immediately before the bugs initially attack and then continue on as Cooper awakens. You still should give us some indication on where the timeline is. #2: What's not explained, possibly due to budget – but I blame the editing, again, is how or why Cooper is the only person to be able to break free all by himself and awake from the spell the bugs placed on humans. But, I digress…it is a B-Movie about giant bugs after all…Cooper is quickly introduced to a giant beetle of sorts, fights, lives and frees a couple of people trapped by bug-webs. Then, he meets his destiny girl, who, in the same scene, loses her mother and gives her a little bit of depth. The following segments fall into the typical scenarios of these types of films: blindsided by extraordinary and catastrophic events, humans try and figure out what's happen, humans fighting amongst themselves and occasionally their advisories and the road trip begins. (By the way, I don't blame the movie for being cliché and obvious. In fact, I love this part of these When Animals Attack movies. Infestation didn't do a bad job here, though it wasn't all that interesting, nonetheless.)Along the road journey, they continue to break down, fight each other more, fight the winged and ground bug troops and discover more of the bug's vicious plans while developing a master plan of their own to defeat the beasts. The road's rocky involving some incredibly odd ideas, scenes, boring subplots and so-called "depth" – Oh, father, accept me!Oh, and if I haven't spoiled enough – perhaps, I actually helped you here to avoid this picture – there's not an explanation of the big bad bugs. That said, I'm not upset with them not clarifying the origin of the hive or bugs. It happens in both big budgeted films as well as Near-Zero direct-to-DVD films. Mostly the latter, due to budget restraints. In either case, generally it adds to the tension, mystery or fears. Here, by the end of the film, the thought of where these bugs came from, or why they were here, or how did they suddenly appear without warning, never came to mind. I just wanted it to end.And when it did end…it finishes on such a WTF? final shot, I was forced to listen to some the audio commentary to learn a little more. Hilariously, I haven't heard so many apologies from an audio commentary track since Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Thankfully, the director/writer focused a lot of his regret on the editing process; at least he acknowledged that. Well, that, and his love/lust for beautiful women and breasts. Unfortunately, he didn't elaborate any more on the finale than what I already assumed. It just needed a few more seconds and possibly another buck fifty over-budget on the special effects.Despite all the efforts – namely the actors and the FX crew didn't do that bad of a job – it's a SKIP. I think all parties will evolve. So, let's wait until then.

ajs-10 I hadn't heard anything about this film before I saw it. This made for quite an interesting viewing experience. Set in a town somewhere in America, Cooper, a bit of a waster, is about to be fired from his job when a piercing noise knocks everyone out…Cooper wakes up to find himself covered in some kind of white webbing. He pulls it off himself only to be confronted by a three foot long insect that immediately attacks him. Having fought several of these bugs off, he goes and finds his boss, Maureen, who is disorientated. They figure out they have been out for several days and Maureen suddenly remembers her daughter, Sara, was outside in a car. Cooper goes outside to get her but Maureen follows and is crying out when she is suddenly taken away by a flying bug. Cooper and Sara make it to a diner and, having woken everyone up there, decide to go to his father's house, about a days' walk away. They also discover that the bugs can't see, they only react to sound, so it's very important to stay quiet. The group consists of Cooper, Sara, Cindy (a weather girl), Hugo & Albert (father & son) and Leechee (a student). The set off and make it to another building before nightfall. Cooper makes it no secret he's interested in Sara, but she rebuffs his attentions. They decide to capture one of the bugs and test its venom. Leechee does the test and they find it's mostly a sedative. The next morning they move on but Leechee stays behind to wake more people and study the bugs further. The journey is dangerous and more revelations are to be made, but I'll stop here, don't want to give too much away!I was quite surprised, for a B-movie type film, it's pretty well made. The effects, although not the best, aren't all that bad. The dialogue could have done with a bit more work, but there were one or two good one-liners in there. Decent performances from all of the main cast, honourable mentions go to Chris Marquette as Cooper, Brooke Nevin as Sara, Kinsey Packard as Cindy, E. Quincy Sloan as Hugo, Wesley Thompson as Albert, Linda Park as Leechee and Ray Wise as Ethan (he had the best comedy lines).This wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't great either. I think the main problem was I didn't particularly like Cooper at the beginning, he grew on me as the film progressed, but I still didn't find him particularly likable. Also, the big fight at the end was a bit of a let down. So, over all, it's got a few laughs, the CGI is pretty good but it has some poor effects towards the end. Not bad, but not great.My score: 5.3/10