Ok–somebody had to see this last night. Alas, I was trapped at home with no sitter so I will have to experience the thrill of opening night vicariously through you people who actually have lives. Was this movie any good? Worth paying full price for? How’d the spiders look? Was it actually scary, or more of a black comedy? I need to know!
bella
I thought it was the best monster movie since Tremors, which it reminded me a lot of. I didn’t think the effects were all that good, but it was well made, with some good scares and a lot of fairly smart humor (smart by summer movie standards).
I enjoyed it; not much to spoil, really, because the plot was entirely, and self-consciously, formulaic. Recursive, really; for instance, there’s a kid who tries to warn people about the spiders but nobody listens to him because, as he says, “Nobody ever listens to the kid.” So they make fun of genre cliches even while enacting them.
One odd thing – not enough screaming. A lot of movies have too much screaming, but if a spider the size of refrigerator is coming in through your window, maybe screaming is appropriate.
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And for some reason, there’s something hilarious about a horny teenager trying to cop a feel and instead getting a stun gun to the 'nards, then wetting himself, then immediately being chased by giant hopping man-eating spiders. Kid’s evening just isn’t working out like he’d hoped.
Thanks guys, sounds like you both thought it was definitely worth seeing. Hopefully, I’ll be able to catch it this weekend. 
Anyone else who’s seen it and wants to chime in, please do.
bella—skipping away excitedly
Liked it, but what was with the gratutious non-nudity of Kari Wuhrer
Funniest thing about this movie is that dude who gets the tazer to the nuts and pees himself never gets to change his pants. After he pees himself, he spends the whole rest of the movie being chased by spiders. In wet pants 
The thing that bugged me about the movie is they overdid the sound effects for the spiders- I swear to god they sounded like litle dogs barking or something. And at several points they were COUGHING…I guess they evolved lungs or something.
I love the part where the guy calls 911 and says, " I know how this sounds, but our town is under attack by giant spiders. You’ve got to believe me!" Yes, you DO know how this sounds, and you know perfectly well no one will believe you, so why not just say your town is being attacked by terrorists or something and let the military find out the truth for themselves?