I did have some preference for the cute people fighting the bugs (mainly because I am a human), but my level of engagement with any of the characters was only a little more than I get for a TV commercial. I got it...evil bugs, cute humans fighting them, but living in a society that's both utopian (when everything is OK) and sanitized. The downside to that is that it's also a rigidly controlled facist state. That's about the level of insight you can get in a 60 second commercial. Bugs, cute people and nazis. Having grown up around some people who actually did experience real nazis and seeing what was done to them, trivializing them like this movie did was borderline offensive.
What I also find to be seriously weird in all of this is that there's really not much of a narrative. I'd like to have some suggestion that the film maker thinks that there's another way other than bugs or nazis, that any of these characters has a second thought about any of this or any awareness of how much life like that sucks. Everything in the movie was so lacking in history or future or aspirations or rebelliousness that there was nobody to identify with. Aside from me wanting a brief, impersonal tumble in the hay with some of the female characters, nothing in the movie really had any guts and even the nude scene seemed like it was put in there to bump up the MPAA rating by a notch. It was like a marjorine commercial with partial nudity.
What I also find to be seriously weird in all of this is that there's really not much of a narrative. I'd like to have some suggestion that the film maker thinks that there's another way other than bugs or nazis, that any of these characters has a second thought about any of this or any awareness of how much life like that sucks. Everything in the movie was so lacking in history or future or aspirations or rebelliousness that there was nobody to identify with. Aside from me wanting a brief, impersonal tumble in the hay with some of the female characters, nothing in the movie really had any guts and even the nude scene seemed like it was put in there to bump up the MPAA rating by a notch. It was like a marjorine commercial with partial nudity.