We were so excited when we read the summary for this movie. Wasps sent into space turn into monsters?! Count us in!
At the beginning of the movie, a couple of "scientists" are sending various animals into space. The longer they spend there, the more they are affected by the trip. I mean, one of the guinea pigs (?) had its fur turn white!! One of the capsules blows up and isn't thought of again until suspicious deaths start to happen in a remote part of the jungle. Suspecting their wasps are the culprit, the scientists head off to the remote village where they pick up an annoying woman. She demands to go with them since the wasps murdered her father, but she's more hindrance than help.
This movie was terrible and not in a good way. I estimate that 90% of it was walking. They showed the scientists walking to the village. The expedition then walked to the volcano where the old man was abandoned by his younger friend. Then they walked around trying to find the wasps, and finally, they walked around in a cave trying to find their way out after they trapped themselves inside.
And the worst part? The people were unnecessary. And I don't mean a few of them (like the woman) didn't add anything. I mean they didn't kill any of the wasps. The volcano took them out with lava in an overly long wasp-screaming scene complete with repeated frames. The puzzling thing about the end was that when the volcano went off, it shocked the movie into color. I don't know why, but that was so odd. It's not like The Wizard of Oz where the colorization is a clue that you're in another world. It was just colored, screaming wasps, and then it was over.
The excessive walking was so exhausting. The woman was not helpful (as usual), and the plot was super stupid. This one was a pass, and we were all glad when it was over.
*Shoutout to Jim Davis. Not only does he share the name of my grandpa, he's become a familiar face in some of these films.
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