Bite Me! (2004)

Why so much hype?

What a beautiful movie!

Purely Joyful Movie!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

A government experimental strain of large mutant spiders that behave as tics, has left Melpaso, Arizona (near Paramus, NJ) in a crate of marijuana.It ends up at the Go-Go Souros strip joint where the owner needs money fast to buy out his deceased partner's wife. The creatures become a problem.This is the second film I have seen where Misty Mundae is bitten by a spider. Misty is nice to look at, but really doesn't know how to pole dance. The jokes were not great and the situational comedy was flat. The film didn't really get good until the last 20 minutes...if you don't count the soft core nudity. As always Misty films are always fun as she tries to act.Guide: F-word. FFsex. Nudity (Misty Mundae, Julian Wells, Erika Smith, Caitlin Ross)

I watch a lot of these B films with the hopes of finding some gem, but of course most of them are simply bad. "Bite Me!" was that gem. You know what you're getting with nearly any B movie, but this one piqued my interest a bit more with the stop motion animation. So I gave it a try.The first two-thirds of the film didn't drag, but weren't stellar. The initial scene with the two guys driving the car, and their demise, really could have been left out of the film for the most part. It filled 5-10 minutes and provided about 3 lines of plot that could have been delivered by other means besides a car crash and a few phone calls.So the middle phase is dominated by character development in the strip club. It managed not to suck, and held my interest primarily with the nudity and I was wondering if there would be any more to the story. Still, nudity and not-bad acting (in fact pretty good for a B flick) was carrying me. Then the last 15-25 minutes kicked in and things really got going. The characters really blossomed, especially once they got bit. And the whole 'dinosaurs in the backyard' got me for the fact there was never even attempt at explanation....it just is, roll with it. Still, the best was the characters. They executed their given roles wonderfully, pulling several laugh out loud moments mixed with and sometimes because of several wtf moments. This was too good to be accidental, so my appreciation not just for the actors but for writing and direction, and of course for special effects. I'll admit, Crystal (Misty Mundae) grew on me a bit, especially her character after being bit, but the one who earned my greatest appreciation was Amber (Caitlin Ross) for playing the (un-phase- able) pot head stripper. She was solid throughout, though it took me a bit of time for her personality to start playing the straight for all the scenes.I love cheese, and this was quality cheese with a healthy dose of fun. You aren't getting Oscar quality when you pick up a film like this, but you are rewarded for one of the best I've seen in this class of film. Definitely recommended.

Okay, this got ripped by other people,, but I loved it. Yeah okay, I knew it was a low budget movie, and I had very low expectations. But this movie was entertaining and funny. I laughed too many times to count in this movie, and it was in response to things that were meant to be funny.Come on, you have to love the premise. Sure it was campy, but is that a bad thing? I've seen way worse lately, and this would be on any short list of party movies I would put together. Rent it expecting an Oscar film and you'll be disappointed. To quote one actress from the movie "Duh!". Rent it expecting campy fun, it delivers. And not without a good deal of originality.

*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*A bunch of spiders turn into blood sucking mutant spiders when they eat a super hybrid of pot. A crate of the stuff ends up at a strip club. The rest of the movie writes itself. I enjoyed "Bite me!". It was a proud B-movie. One of the posters on the strip club manager's wall was for "Barbed Wire Dolls". I wouldn't put "Bite Me!" in the same category as that sleaze masterpiece but I had some fun watching it. The spiders were cheap, the strip club looked like an abandoned garage, the strippers were sleepy but "Bite Me!" is good for some cheap Saturday night entertainment. I've given Misty Mundae a lot of grief but she's starting to grow on me. I think I like her better when she has her clothes on. She was pretty good in this one. Any girl who lets a blood sucking spider attack her can't be all bad. The best scene has Julian Wells as the uptight businesswoman who loosens up when a spider chomps her. "You call that dancing?! I'll show you dancing." She then hops on stage to do some spider venom stripping. I rewound that scene four times. I especially liked the whip sound effect when Wells whips her hair around. She has got the hair toss down. Whip it Wells. Whip it good.