Rezension von zh84

I admit I'm writing this review after seeing only the first half-hour of the film on TV; I may not be able to stand much more. Yes, I know it's just for fun, but even in a horror comedy it really would be better if they paid SOME attention to the facts. In particular, whoever is responsible for the sound effects - a whole bunch of them, according to the listing - needs to be spanked. Spiders do not make noises; I'm pretty sure they're deaf. They do not growl, chatter, yap, squeak or gurgle. Hunting animals which depend on creeping up on their prey generally aren't noisy, for obvious reasons. The annoying little boy, who is supposed to be an expert on spiders, identifies the thing he retrieves from the old man's house as a "pedipalp" or "a spider's leg". Pedipalps are not legs - in fact, they're part of the spider's anatomy that it uses for mating! If you put this into human terms, you can see it's a pretty major mistake ;-) Finally, we have the grand cliché of the Big Company/Big Government Conspiracy: how many films have we seen where They are the ultimate source of the problem? In a film which throws away all kinds of facts in favour of "imagination", they could have been more imaginative!