Director Tibor Takacs’ Ice Spiders (2007) is about as
ludicrous and entertaining as most of his films having been directed the cult
favorites The Gate (1987) and its sequel Gate 2 (1990) and I, Madman (1989),
among many others. The biggest fault
with his films in this modern day and age is the over reliance on CGI good,
bad, and otherwise. You get a lot of the
otherwise in this film.
The film concerns former ski bum Dash Dashiell (Patrick
Muldoon) whose fed up with teaching rich people at the ski resort the “fine
art” of skiing when they would rather just be having a good time. When Dr. April Sommers (Vanessa Williams)
military science experiment of deadly mutated spiders decides to jump ship from
the secret government laboratory on the mountain everyone’s lives are nothing
more than spider-food. Unbeknownst to
Sommers her spiders were injected with a growth hormone to speed up their
growth and aggression and now they are bigger, stronger, and more deadly than
she could have possibly imagined. And
did I also mention that the cold has no effect on them whatsoever?
Now Sommers must team up with Dashiell to protect the
survivors on the mountain and find a way to outsmart and kill the giant spiders
before they all become spider-food. The
whole film is pretty ludicrous but Muldoon and Williams are game and keep the
film entertaining even through all the bad CGI spiders. Even legendary producer Stephen J. Cannell
(The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street, The A-Team, and Stingray, to name a few)
shows up in a major supporting role as the owner of the ski resort.
Overall the film is pretty bad and a far cry from Takacs’
previous ‘80s films but he still knows how to entertain regardless.
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