Bite Me
by Brett Piper
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Actor: Julian Wells, Misty MundaeDirector: Brett Piper
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 140 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Shock-O-Rama Cinema
DVD Reviews of Bite Me
DVD Review: Cute Little Bugs With Bad "Tudes
Summary: 4 Stars
"One of the cool things about stop motion animation is you need to build these little guys. Because if you're doing GGI monsters, aside from the fact that they're expensive and generally look like crap, {is} someone can't come to your studio and you can't pick up the monster and say, 'Look, this is him, this is the monster from the movie' because he doesn't exist. He's just a bunch of pixels and algorithms and stuff somewhere on a hard drive." Brett Piper writer/director of BITE ME!
I don't know about you but I gotta love a guy with that kind of attitude toward movie making, a guy who appreciates the importance of the artifacts even if they are only from a direct to video movie like BITE ME! It put me in mind of when I found myself with six feet of Ray Harryhausen (YES! Ray Harryhausen!!) as he was packing up some of the models he had brought to a retrospective of his work at Chicago's Music Box Theater. We were virtually alone as the theater emptied and apparently I said something because he turned and looked at me. I was stunned because I had no idea I had said anything at all much less had a clue to what it might have been, so I just faked it and gushed about how I had grown up loving his movies and how I had never thought I would meet him or be so close to the little creatures who had dazzled me as a kid--something like that at any rate, I can't swear to it. Apparently he's quite accustomed to this sort of thing and smiled wearily and returned to packing. He may have said thank you. Piper's comment also brought back memories of my tour of Forry Ackerman's collection and one of the items there that had most impressed me the most--it was one of the original models from KING KONG, the stegosaurus It had been found in a warehouse, half eaten away by rats but was now safely under glass where it would be protected and cherished hopefully forever.Yeah, I know, even the best of Piper's flix don't begin to compare to KING KONG, but Piper gets it and that's why I find his films enjoyable. Which brings us to----
BITE ME! released in 2004, centers around a strip joint, the Go Go Saurus Club (so called because of the 50 foot Godzilla in the backyard) which is in dire straits financially, the club, not Godzilla. Money is the least of their problems however, because tonight manager/owner Ralph (Michael R. Thomas) is expecting a shipment of marijuana, which unbeknown st to him is the result of a government bio-engineering experiment gone awry, as such things always do in movies and, I suspect, in real life too. To further complicate matters a renegade DEA agent is hot on the trail of the illicit drugs, and this guy is such a nut job that even the agency won't have him anymore, so he sees cracking this case as his big chance to get his job back and he intends to let nothing stand in his way. Certainly not Ralph, nor uptight Teresa (Julian Wells) who's trying to buy the strip joint out from under him, not a tawdry little bunch of strippers (headed up by Misty Mundae as Crystal), and definitely not Buzz (Rob Monkiewicz) a good hearted but brain dead exterminator who's called in to deal with the REAL problem du jour--the spiders that have gotten into the weed and have turned into blood sucking monsters!
While BITE ME! is not quite as well put together or satisfying a film as Piper's ARACHNIA which featured Monkiewicz going all Bruce Campbell on some stop motion spiders, it's still an entertaining film that earns it's 4 stars by virtue of it's stop motion--nobody does that stuff any more. Now don't misunderstand me here, the animation is not going to blow you away but it IS a bit more complicated than what he's attempted before. So we've got stop motion, and we've got comedy. I'm a pushover for anything that doesn't take itself too seriously and nobody is going to accuse this film of that. Ever. Mundae fans will get a kick out of her change of character after being bitten by one of the spiders, it's a side effect of the venom--it changes your personality 180 degrees. Her somewhat mousy character dons camouflage, straps on a gun, grabs a few sticks of dynamite, and goes all Rambo on arachnid derriere. Monkiewiz is playing against type all through the movie. No macho hero this time. Just a dork with a goatee and a spray can. And for all of you who are waiting with baited breath--yes, there are naked girls in the strip club, after all they are strippers. Be warned however that there are no Double Ds here. Misty Mundae (bless her soul) is a Double A, which is smaller than an A guys, not bigger. But to salve your wounds there is also some girl on girl for you guys which results from the man crazy bartender being bitten by a bug and, well, remember what I said about going 180 degrees.
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