A lot of fun.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Besides all the "no CGI" chat... The movie is awful to watch... I'm a avid movie watcher, from all genres and types, and horror are, side by side with suspense, my favorites; but this one makes my laughs go out loud in the neighborhood! Man, what the hell is this? Bad acting, great monster, but also no terrifying one, so, the movie is nearly almost to watch till the end! I never stop watching one, even a piece of "shtako" like this, but I strongly do not recommend anyone to loose time seeing this one! The deaths are so forced and even we knowing that no CGIO was used, the rubber and plastic models used to play these parts lack credibility and this makes the movie very very very ugly!

No summary here. You can get that in the synopsis...Any movie studio that states right up front that they are a NO CGI studio automatically gets a bag of gummi bears from me! I saw "Wrath of the Titans" a few days before this and was looking for the game controller about midway through... I'm really tired of junk computer effects that make the movie feel like a video game. Come on, man!I read a review of this movie on Ain't It Cool News about a year ago, and have been waiting patiently to get my hands on the DVD. I watched it twice already, because they just don't make them like this anymore. The story was good enough. It's not "Citizen Kane," but its not trying to be. The acting is dodgy in a few places, but it certainly is better than what I've seen in a lot of low budget movies. I really bought the cryptozoologist played by Ken McFarlane, and the girl in the VH1 Scream Queens show, Christine Habermann, seemed genuinely upset by her abduction by the hillbillies, even though, somehow, I kept thinking of Looney Tunes while watching the events unfold...Okay, enough of that. THE MILLENNIUM BUG is a gory giant monster movie that could easily have been made in 1986, or perhaps 1966 if you took away the blood and guts. Yep, the giant monster is actually an actor wearing a monster suit, and yep, he smashes through a forest and an old ghost town... all built in miniature! The whole movie is stylized, not "real," and I dig that. So don't sit down and expect realism, because that's not going to happen. Also, the kills are pretty great... very gory, very outrageous. **SPOILER** Within the first ten minutes, the nasty hillbilly woman (who is clearly gorgeous in real life) gives birth in gory detail! Something Hollywood would NEVER show! For me, THE MILLENNIUM BUG is a pretty fun movie. I see a lot of independent horror films, and I've had my fill of slasher, zombie, vampire, paranormal ghost demon yadda yadda yadda movies. This one is WAY different from any indie horror film out there... and that's a real complement, as far as I'm concerned.

I saw this movie on opening night after being invited by a friend and I have to say it was pretty awful. The filmmakers who pride this being a No-CGI movie are kidding themselves if they think that this represents the future of filmmaking. The miniature sets, while admirably done, looked like toys on screen, the plot and story were nonsensical and badly-paced, and lastly, the supposed star of the show (the monster) looked laughable at best. Acting-wise, it's a mixed bag of decent acting to downright campy; kudos to Joany Haskin for being able to pull off great dramatic moments despite the ridiculousness happening all around her.Production-criticisms aside, I would honestly do others a disservice if I recommended this film to anyone looking for a monster movie fix. It looks and feels dated because of the filmmakers antiquated approach to production yet does not even touch the base of other classic films done with same special effects techniques.I would rate this film with the bottom pile of a Syfy channel original movie in both plot and production values. If that's your cup of tea, then I suppose you'd enjoy this film.

From start to finish, The Millennium Bug is fun and full of surprises! Any fan of horror movies will finds lots to love about this movie. The Millennium Bug creature itself if very wildly imaginative and awesome on screen dishing out brutal creature kills. There are plenty of imaginative gory kills and great one liners peppered throughout as well. One of the best parts of the movie is the Crawford family, especially Billa Crawford played to a perfect redneck villainous pitch by John Charles Meyer. Hopefully I won't have to wait another 1,000 years (how long it takes a Millennium Bug to reach maturity) to wait for another movie from the writer/director Kenneth Cran. Definitely a movie I can't wait to add to my collection.