Big Ass Spider ! is a special effect - labor bigsploitation / assploitation / spidsploitation activeness adventure comedy extravaganza written by Gregory Gieras , directed by Mike Mendez and starring Greg Grunberg ( Heroes ) as lonely - heart pest exterminator and rescuer of mankind , Alex Mathis .
The film opens with Alex going to the pinch room for discussion after suffering a bite from an average , small ass wanderer . While Alex chat up awkwardly with his implausibly hot maintenance provider of normal - ass size of it , the coroner is busy in the morgue examining the body of a all in ass scientist . When the coroner is attacked by a average ass spider obliterate in the scientist ’s body grip , Alex agrees to bump off the beast in lieu of ante up his expensive ass infirmary bank bill . So much for Obamacare , amirite ?
When Major Ass Army Guy Ray Wise go far with his knavish ass army lady helper and a overbold ass scientist who explains that the wanderer in inquiry had been let on to an experimental growth serum signify to end world hungriness by create big ass cows , with child posterior poulet and big ass strawberries , Alex and his sidekick , Jose “ The Mexican Robin ” Ramos , squad up with a big ass team of tough ass army dudes , to kick the holy LV-426 out of the rapidly expanding Areanus gluteus maximus .
great Ass Spider ! is one of those film that you may middling much believe your spidey sense on . If you ’re the type of individual who is interested in movies about big tooshie spiders , look no further . All films make a contract with the viewer . When you go to see The Road Warrior , there had well be some route war . Bridge on the River Kwai had advantageously have a bridge and it had better be on the River Kwai . Sharknado … well you get the stage . On this scotch , Big Ass Spider ! holds up its remnant of the cinematic steal : there is a spider and its arsenic is undeniably vast .
But beyond this , Big Ass Spider ! surpass expectations . The spider effects are decent , the action is well paced , the role are appeal and most of the joke are laughable . Even without a cameo by Lloyd Kaufman ( The Toxic Avenger ) , it would still be plain that Mendez and Gieras are paying homage to their Tromatic childhoods . large Ass Spider ! is a low - budget film that hearkens back to the days of the cause - in , the midnight moving-picture show and the heterosexual - to - VHS behemoth schlock - fest .
Like the filmmakers of a generation ago who drew inspiration from the Saturday good morning serials of their youthfulness and ushered in a novel earned run average of feature film - length adventures , Mendez and Gieras have taken up the mantle of their forebear and moved the ball further down the cinematic field . liken Big Ass Spider ! to Raiders of the Lost Ark is … all right … a stretch . But in an era of filmmaking that evenSteven Spielberg and George Lucas call up is unsustainable , surviving Peak Blockbuster means loving what you create , whether the budget is $ 1 or $ 100 million .
It would equally be a stretch to say that Big Ass Spider ! represents the last , best Bob Hope for an art form buckling under the weight of hit - driven peril antipathy and increasingly narrow margins on increasingly bloated budgets , but it does represent the kind of commitment to amusement that will inspire the next generation of filmmakers armed with lowly screw budget and great rump dream .
Big Ass Spider ! has bragging ass center , and big ass pith counts for a swelled ass lot .
Big Ass Spider ! is available on Blu - Ray , Amazon and YouTube renting .
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