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3.3/10   497 votes
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Writer:
Malick Khoury (writer)
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There's something creepy in the neighborhood... more
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Killer cockroaches swarm a small lakeside community. full summary | add synopsis
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Let's get ready to bumble. more (41 total)

Cast

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Randy Quaid ... General George S. Merlin
Brenda Epperson Doumani ... Dr. Laura Casey

Katherine Heigl ... Shannon Griffin

James Doohan ... Sheriff Carlson

George Takei ... Dr. Hiro Fujimoto

Meredith Salenger ... Veronica Hart
Ty O'Neal ... Deputy Bo

David Lipper ... Steve Williams

Bernie Kopell ... Gil Griffin

Anne Lockhart ... Cammie Griffin
Downtown Julie Brown ... Katie Cunning
Dennis Fimple ... Judediah

Allen Lulu ... Lodge clerk
Cliff Emmich ... Uncle Buck
Charles Glenn ... Governor
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Blatella (USA) (working title)
Some Things Never Die (UK) (video title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence and gore, crude humor, and sensuality
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93 min
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[Three separate groups meet up in a mine]
General George S. Merlin: For an abandoned mine, it sure is crowded.
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References Jaws (1975) more

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1 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
Let's get ready to bumble., 28 April 2008
3/10
Author: tyler-and-jack from Edinburgh.

Don't get angry with me over that pun. It's not my fault. It's not even my line. Yes, sadly, the line "let's get ready to bumble" comes directly from the script of this movie. Good grief.

Killer bugs attack small town is the plot here with a pre-bigtime Katherine Heigl playing the main heroine/damsel in distress figure and a post-bigtime Randy Quaid playing an over-the-top macho bug exterminator (seen in a series of amusing adverts on TV before appearing in the flesh). The rest of the cast are either vaguely familiar, not known for anything else or, bizarrely enough, from the original series of Star Trek. But that's okay because everyone just seems to stand around while the police flap uselessly and some medical and scientific people gradually, ever so sloooooowwwwwwlllly, piece together the horrible truth.

This movie was bad on so many levels. Pacing was annoyingly slow, the bug moments were sadly lacklustre and nothing was thrown in to keep even the easily pleased genre fans happy. No major gore moments, no gratuitous nudity, nothing to boost it's rating at all. Hell, the one scene of two people making out involved Heigel's parents. Ewwwwwwwwwww!

I enjoy a good killer bug movie, I enjoy a good bad movie, I enjoy many different kinds of movies and am usually fairly easy to please. But I did not enjoy this.

See this if you like: bad FX and terrible, terrible movies.

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