herrschenk This couldn't be funnier, even if it had intended to be. It is a 21st century rendition of those awful 1950s drive-in fodder, supersized radioactive insect movies. It just doesn't know its a parody. It really thinks it's a serious movie. As a result, it has turned out much funnier than Date Movie, Epic Movie and Scary Movie, all the uninspired clones of the Zucker brothers' wonderfully screwy Airplane (Flying High down under) and Naked Gun flicks.Great sets, nice photography but the praise stops there. The script is stupid and the acting is atrocious. Grab snacks and laugh your head off. Lucy Lawless is a scientist battling swarms of carnivorous locust, a CYA secretary of agriculture and an army general eager to gas the bugs and most of America. All are of about equal intelligence. Well, maybe collectively the grasshoppers are smarter. Remarkable, given they are all stick-on props and CGI.BTW, the unintentional humour is so raucous I never pegged Xena until I came to IMDb. She isn't nearly so visually arresting out of leather. Her estranged boyfriend though, another scientist, is another matter. He could push this flick over with specialized audience niches. It was guffaw time for me when he walked into Command Central and was introduced as a leader in some sort of scientific field. Square jawed, wavy haired and such a caricature of handsome, you know he must have just come straight from his other job. As an underwear model.Low moments but big laughs: Every time Lucy jumps up and down like an 11-year-old trying to get the attention of a doubting bigwig. When the biggest mid-script plot turn is the "reveal" that Lucy is pregnant. Prime moment for a line something like, "You remember that night. You came straight home after shooting the g-string commercials and you were unstoppable." No matter; viewers are already laughing so hard they'd have missed the line.Oh yes, and those amazing CGI effects! Really love the computer simulations of the USA at Command Central where the dark swarms of dots (representing the locusts, ya know) spread across several states as fast as spilled water covers a granite counter top.Enough already. You get it. Do NOT approach this as serious entertainment.Oh, I forgot. There is one good performance. It's Mike Farrell (B.J. Hunnicutt on M*A*S*H) as a man outstanding in his field. You got it; a farmer. That's cuz the locusts attack all the crops in Midwestern America. Those good, honest folk don't deserve such diss.

RogerBorg And frankly, she's not that great in it, despite the skimpy outfits that they squeeze her into during the first act. In a couple of scenes, I had to look twice to be sure it was her. She looks and acts completely generic, but you can hardly blame her for choosing not to try to rise above the pedestrian script and direction.In fact it seems like all of the made-for-made-for-TV-movie cast are just sleepwalking through this yawnfest, apparently resigned to never rising above appearing in this kind of dross. The level of urgency and interpersonal conflict they display is about the same as I experience when trying to negotiate splitting a pizza with my wife.The production values are shoddy; it looks like it's been cobbled together from the cutting room floor of a particularly badly botched X Files episode, right down to the teletype-style scene captioning. The soundtrack in particular is irritating rather than stirring. And as other commentators have noted, it's embarrassingly obviously bankrolled by a mobile telephone company: nobody uses a landline in this movie, ever, even in a hospital bed.I'm hard pressed to determine what the point of this movie is supposed to be. It's not frightening, its not funny, none of the characters are sympathetic, it builds no tension and it begins and ends nowhere interesting. It just grinds its way towards a pointless and trite conclusion and it's really a relief when it's all over and the mercifully brief credits flash across the screen.

monkey-man I just finished watching this movie on TV and before i watched it i thought that this movie would suck so much but this movie turned out to be OK but by far not a great or even a good movie.There is a surprisingly impressive cast in this b grade made for T.V movie with good actors and actress like Lucy Lawless,John Heard from the good movie Home Alone and Mike Farrell.There are some things that make this movie suck like how most of the special affects in this movie look so fake and sometimes the plot gets a bit stupid.Overall this movie has some flaws but in the end this movie turns out to be OK.And my rating for this movie is 5 out of 10.

Michael O'Keefe Dr. Maddy Rierdon(Lucy Lawless) is a Department of Agriculture investigator that is pressed into duty with the pressure of protecting North America from one of her colleague's experiments. Dr. Peter Axelrod(John Heard)over steps his bounds when he secretly bioengineers for the military a breed of locusts immune to all known pesticides. These locusts are three times the size of normal locusts and have the appetite and capability to devour the entire continent. Its the proverbial race against the clock as swarms of these pests are eating their way from each coast with America's heartland doomed in the middle. Also in the cast are: Mike Farrell, Dylan Neal, Caroline McKinley and Gregalan Williams.