Frogs


I remember watching this with my cousin at 3:00 in the morning many years ago, and we just left our heads off. The conceit of this movie is that nature has had enough and is going to start to murder everyone. They start on an island where there is a southern family and the southern family are having a birthday weekend that happens to coincide with the 4th of July. A freelance photographer who works for some kind of ecological magazine gets involved with a boating accident with one of them, and they invite him to stay for lunch. There are shots of scary looking frogs and snakes and geckos and alligators and some other kinds of lizards. Slowly, very slowly, the plot unfolds. There is lots of tension in the family between the older patriarch and the younger members of the family for various reasons. This is a family that has African American servants, so I think there is some kind of metaphor that's being grasped at here. Every single member of the family and servants are probably murdered by nature. These murders are funny. There is a man who is poisoned to death by some geckos. The geckos actually knock glass bottles labelled poison off of shelves. One is literally smiling while it does this. The soundtrack has this weird bird doing a waltz kind of sound. Regrettably, it is one of those movies that you really have to dedicate to making fun of intensely for it to be enjoyable. My two children drifted off during the viewing of this, one fell asleep, and the other was on his phone. So yes it's a bad movie, but it's also boring, so the funny parts are not worth it. If you are tempted- I can sum up the movie in one sentence for you - if a bunch of frogs are being loud, don't poison them.  

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