I’m a sucker for a good giant monster movie and after seeing
the trailer for ITSY BITSY (2019) I was instantly intrigued but sadly what I
was given is not as interesting as I would have hoped. Kara Spencer (Elizabeth Roberts), is a down
on her luck nurse whose just uprooted her two children to move to a new town
for a job taking care of Walter Clark (Bruce Davison), who is an eccentric collector
of exotic items which includes a relic that houses a spider goddess. When the relic is broken, the spider goddess
is released and sets out to kill.
The visual and practical FX for the spider is great! The problem is that the spider doesn’t really
do much in the film as the film itself is more concerned with telling a good
myth regarding the spider goddess and more concerned with family dysfunction of
the main characters and their secrets.
This is all great background for characters but what you want in a giant
monster movie is the scares, the fun, and the absurdity that comes with this
genre of film. Instead, the film is very
much a drama until the action is kicked into high gear in the third act which
for some may too late.
If you do stick with the film the third act is at least
entertaining with the film never getting too boring it just won’t be what you
are expecting. Davison does an excellent
job as the character responsible for all the background info about the spider goddess
and the rest of the cast is equally good but the film-makers themselves may
have just been trying too hard to make a film with actual real life characters
with problems and conflicts. These
conflicts just don’t fit in a giant spider film.
