It was the New Year's Day Videofest, theme: Animal Attack movies. Nobody had been able to get their hands on the MST3K version of Killer Shrews (little dogs dressed up in shrew costumes, I kid you not) so we picked this instead, figuring that being MST3K it would be a nice break between the giant spiders and the giant carniverous bunnies.

Ah well, even the folks at Otter Central can be misguided at times.

I know we had seen this before. What I did not remember was how incredibly deadly dull it was. Even Mike and the 'bots did not help. I have to admit, by halfway through, Mr. Otter and I were sort of, well, nodding off. Trying to stay awake, and failing utterly. The only thing that saved us was the arrival of the Squirrel Lady to watch movies with us, and an infusion of sugar and caffeine. We bravely got through the end of this awful awful piece of crap, and went on.

Favorite moment, though: the giant grasshoppers (no kidding) have invaded Chicago, which the governement managed to completely evacuate in one day (yeah, right). They are trying to lure them into Lake Erie to drown them all, but meanwhile there's the cheesy footage of the grasshoppers on the city streets. Doing no damage, of course, since it's an overlay of the grasshoppers.

Cut to: tall skyscraper buildings. Which have CRICKETS, not grasshoppers, climbing them, and look kind of funny. When the crickets step off the skyscrapers onto the sky, one must face the truth: this amazing state-of-the-art special effect...is crickets on a postcard of the Chicago skyline.

Now THAT was funny.