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A wormhole opens up in Afghanistan and a team of US soldiers of vague ethnicities is sent to deal with it and also find the mad scientist responsible. They encounter huge creatures which have been enlarged by crystals coming out of the wormhole. (I think...) A scientist called William Marx is drafted to help as he knew the mad scientist. Also in the team is Catherine Deckert who is Marx's ex-wife. (What are the odds of them getting together again?) Not an original plot and not an original film. In fact a very poor one with no tension or excitement, comic moments that fall flat on their face and a badly constructed script, not to mention the laughable CGI monsters.

The characters are all irritating. Jack Plotnick as Marx tries to be amusing but fails and Ted Jonas as Lt. Steven Raiger shouts most of his dialogue for some unknown reason. It's a terrible bit of acting that would disgrace a primary school performance. All throughout there are lines of dialogue that don't make sense and the characters act in a way no real person would. The music score by Johnny Wilson is the only worthwhile element in the film. Apart from, of course, the hilarious talking snakes.

BIG BAD BUGS is another cheapo bug hunt movie in which a bunch of soldiers trek through the desert tackling randomly giant monsters which take the form of spiders, scorpions and the like. Such films are ten a penny these days and this one is no different, with lame-o CGI effects and indifferent performances from a below-par cast. Any reason to tune in? None that I can see.

Warning: some mild spoilers ahead (but not critical story points)

Seal team of zeroes, not heroes - I mean, they don't post watch and all just go to sleep in the middle of hostile enemy territory? Riiiight. One dude gets killed and another one 'drops his bottle' and runs around like a brain damaged 4 year old shooting the ground and wasting all his ammunition. Riiiight.

Mad scientist ultra-nerdo-goober who embodies every stereotype in the book - and of course his ex is the Seal team commander. Of course. Despite being the least convincing of any of the Seal actors.

Uber he-manesque belligerent current boyfriend 2IC- can you smell the testosterone? *cough* *gag* Hooah.

Ripoff factor = combo of Tremors monsters and Aliens. Giant spiders - much like the rubber ones I buy for Halloween, only bigger.

'Gadda' radiation. Seriously. If you're going to choose an off-brand name, pick one that doesn't make the entire cast sound like they just messed up the actual name. (Insert eyeroll here)

I love good bad movies, watch them all the time. This is, sadly, not one of those.

It's easy to appreciate the artistic integrity film students who want to contribute something to the advancements of the world of Cinema, but some Jazzy industry no favors by getting involved. He's made for TV for straight-to-video movies made by Supernova for the Asylum are just so genuinely bad with characters so cliched and under written and badly acted that instead of laughing at the film, you are rolling your eyes but with the fear that you will end up seeing through your ears.

You deserve an award, and not the Razzie that this wouldn't even be eligible for, if you can get through even half of it. You can tell from the very beginning that this is going to be absolutely hideous because it starts off with a female military officer coming across a missing Soldier urinating, and he proceeded to just turn around and speak to her while continuing to do his business. She doesn't even flinch. The next thing you know, she's screaming outside the entrance to a cave, and a giant scorpion appears. The Scorpion likes to do the wiggle dance on top of a Jeep and that is probably the funniest moment in the film.

I once did a day-long marathon of films from the Asylum and Supernova, and the highest rating I could come up with was a 3 out of 10. That one was a masterpiece compared to this one, and patience is easily tested as you try to find something worth keeping your interest but just can't. This is also the type of film that you'll watch ones probably on your laptop because on a big screen TV you know it's going to look even more hideous than it is. There are some beautiful landscapes but that really makes no difference when the film itself has absolutely no redeeming qualities. This one doesn't even have the benefit of a familiar forgotten actor or a B star whose fame was fleeting decades ago. This is the type of film where you long to see the entire cast eaten or impaled by the various creatures that come out of nowhere, and that's a sign that the film is absolutely just no good.

Let's begin with trivia. Did you know that ' gadda ' radiation isn't a thing? It's a word with many results in Google, among the notable being a translation from Oromo for the word ' grief ', an emotion I would heavily associate with watching this, and allegedly a type of bed from India, a good indicator of where you'll want to go during this movie.

So, what is Big Bad Bugs? Aside from having a name that's really fun to say, there's nothing else going for it.

The protagonist is your average euphoric fedora-tipping redditor who broke up with his wife for some reason. The wife, who's like 20 years older, resents him, possibly rightfully so. Also, the new boyfriend, Chaddeus Maximus, who visibly struggles to put a sentence together when asked a yes/no question.

Wormholes begin to appear in the middle east... of California. Try as they may, it was very clearly the Californian desert, and it was a bunch of people romping around in Spirit Halloween military costumes.

Anyway, magic rocks come from somewhere, the bugs, who aren't bugs and are arachnids, somehow get the crystals inside them. This goes nowhere.

In the initial cave, there's oddly pristine drawings on the walls, one of which entrances the ex. Apparently this makes a wormhole start to open, and mister euphoric borderline sexually harasses her by nonconsensually forcefully kissing her. They barely escape the cave. The cave writings and fugue are never mentioned again.

During their escapades, it's discovered that the wormhole sends them to a place parallel either in the same reality or an alternate one. It turns out the mad scientist, Gerber, yes, Gerber, went through it and ended up a massive 20 miles away. This is never mentioned again.

The grand group of gigabrains then try to triangulate Gerbs by using a Geiger counter and one (1) radio. After fighting some guys in terrorist towels, captain fedhoria falls asleep, dreams of his ex, wakes up. This goes nowhere.

To the eagle eye observers, you may notice a pattern. Nothing happens in this movie, so let's cut to the end.

Gerbs stabs himself with a crystal or five, turns into a snake, Chaddeus has a moment of clarity, physically assaults his possible fiancee, then stabs himself with a crystal, also turning into a snake.

The two coil around each other like a nice poop before being flushed into the interdimensional toilet to stop the wormholes from opening.

Please, I beg you, do not watch this. Not even for fun. You will suffer.