So much average

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This directorial feature film debut from legendary producer Frank Marshall was surprisingly enjoyable to me. I loved Daniels and Goodman, the atmosphere, the great creature design and the screenplay's "respect for structure" (Roger Ebert).

105 minutes may be too many for a movie about killer spiders, but other than that, this is an entertaining, well-done horror comedy, in the "animals/serpents/bugs/birds/etc. attack" sub-genre. The director, Frank Marshall, and the screenwriters, Wesley Strick and Don Jakoby, think of every possible and impossible place to put their spiders, which are a near flawless mix of the real thing and animatronic models (thankfully, this movie was made before the days of CGI - notice how fake the same creatures look in later horror movies). Both the sudden shocks and the close calls are expertly timed by Marshall, and because there are no real "villains" among the humans you don't know who is going to get it - obviously the Spielbergian family is safe, but everyone else is fair game. I do, however, have some reservations about John Goodman's bug-exterminator character: he seems to have stepped in from another movie - "Ghostbusters"! **1/2 out of 4.

Spoiler Alert!!! I'm sorry but when I was a kid always laughed at how people try making spiders look evil. I found this movie really enjoyable because Jeff Daniels is once again acting like a nice guy. I know this movie is suppose to be made for horror but I don't find spiders at all scary in this movie. Like this one scene Jeff Daniels is saying he's scared to death over this one little spider he ends up putting a glass over anyway. This movie just screams that it is from the 90s and I loved it! I just can't take this film serious seeing as how the spiders don't even seem threatening. Like seriously the spiders are just normal sized ones. I liked this film better than 8 legged freaks and I liked the style of this film better so it's a 5 out of 10.

The problem with Arachnophobia is that no one seems to know what kind of the movie they wanted to make! I like the film because it's just different, but it is not clear whether they wanted it to be a comedy, bringing John Goodman out was funny and provided a more light hearted sense to the movie. But it also tried to be scary and did have its moments. It ended up just being kind of a mishmash, but I found it entertaining. I like Jeff Daniels and I love spiders. Spiders make something out of nothing and most people make nothing out of something. We have benefited from spiders far more than we have lost because of them.