Director Michael Lehmann once again satirizes shallow, middle-class suburbanites in a film that borrows heavily from THE SWARM, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and THE FLY, as well as TV's "Saturday Night Live," "Married with Children," "Bewitched" and "The Simpsons," a touch of Kafka and Lehmann's
own HEATHERS. But invention is lacking and, although potentially amusing as a television sketch, MEET THE APPLEGATES is a one-joke film that runs out of steam, and laughs, within the first 20 minutes.
Threatened with extinction by the development of the rain forest and coming upon a Dick and Jane primer left behind by fleeing Peace Corp workers, a group of giant Brazilian...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
82 mins