劇場版巨蟲列島

KYOCHUU RETTOU MOVIE

MOVIE

MOVIE
Dubbed
SOURCE
MANGA
RELEASE
January 10, 2020
LENGTH
76 min

DESCRIPTION

After an airplane crash during a school trip, Oribe Mutsumi and her classmates were stranded on a seemingly deserted island. Mutsumi found the other survivors, and used her wilderness knowledge to help them. She expects that they will be rescued in about three days, which doesn't seem so long to endure. However, she didn't account for the fact that the island is populated with gigantic killer insects. Her knowledge of butterflies, wasps, and more may be the only thing that will help any of her classmates survive to be rescued.

(Source: MangaHelpers)

Note: Announced at the 2019 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.

CAST

Mutsumi Oribe
Mao Ichimichi
Kazuhiko Kai
Takuya Eguchi
Chitose Naruse
Rika Tachibana
Mami Miura
Momo Asakura
Ayumi Matsuoka
Misato Fukuen
Mirei Jinno
Chiaki Takahashi
Atsushi Kamijo
Wataru Komada
Ai Inou
Yurika Kubo
Inaho Enoki
Marina Inoue
Emiko Miyazono
Chikako Sugimura
Hiroshi Tsuge
Taku Yashiro
Kayo Suzuki
Marika Chuujou

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REVIEWS

TheGruesomeGoblin
1/100
A movie adaptation of a bottom of the barrel manga that's torn between smut and gore involving giant insects.
LAST TIME ON THE ISLAND OF GIANT INSECTS...!

NOW THAT YOU'RE ALL CAUGHT UP, LET'S GET ON WITH THE REVIEW...!

The Island of Giant Insects (again)

...Okay, jokes aside, I'm going to do my best to try and not talk or show anything that was already in the OVA and thus the last review.

(If this proves impossible to do, I'll just probably not post this review. ~~If you're reading this right now, I'm sorry I didn't fail.~~)

Additionally, I feel the need to remind that my warning for the OVA review carries on into this one. The entire point of this series is giant insects and nudity. And they often intermingle. In this review the nudity will of course be censored, the gore won't be. Because the gore is the only reason I'm continuing to bother.

...Oh. Yeah sure, nudity's fine, but a decapitation? Nope. That's too far.

...And the movie pushes the boundaries even further than the OVA did. There was that random scene that it started out with to show that the bully character was a bully because she stripped the bug girl in an empty classroom to... just be an ass, I guess? Then, of course there were the nude crazies who were getting eaten by the wasp larvae...

But the movie adapts the chapter where it just basically goes full smut.

"Let's all take a swim to check ourselves for tick bites! Even though this would be the absolute perfect moment for the giant insects to ambush us on this island that is supposed to be teeming with them but is instead only teeming with them when the writing needs them to be there."

Bug girl's just sad that her friend got wasp'd, but elsewhere, idol girl and bully girl both simultaneously begin their own schemes of trying to hoist up a leader for the group to protect their own positions and survival. And they... it's sex. They're going to bribe them with sex. Idol girl targets sports girl

(I'm not even trying with the character names)

and bully girl targets alpha guy because he's dumb but also strong (?). And it's just... can you not? Can you not? Can you not?

As a sort of running gag, literally only one of these unlikable pieces of s... characters actually realize hey maybe this girl who solely excels in insect knowledge is probably the most useful character they have to work with. For real, alpha guy fucking tells hiking girl to shut the fuck up when she's telling him probably useful (BUT EXTREMELY OBVIOUS) survival advice.

"Maybe you shouldn't drink solely sweet drinks and instead water? You know, to stave off eventual dehydration."

"Shut the fuck up. I'm a worthless character. That means my survival is GUARANTEED. You're dead in like five minutes."

Oh yeah. The OVA cut out the rape butterflies. The movie has the rape butterflies. I'd rather it not have the rape butterflies but also it's literally their first encounter with the giant insects. I call them rape butterflies because their first victim is female and she happened to be off in the woods since... since nature called. And the butterflies just happened to have appendages that are... well...

...I almost feel like I should just delete everything I've written for this review up to this point and just type the word HATE four hundred and thirty six times.

(That actually is the correct amount needed to hit the character limit. I counted.)

They also did like a genuinely okay scene with all of the characters in like the airport lobby before the plane crashed, and the focus is just on this random normal sized bee that's just flying around everyone.

Then of course it ends with alpha guy squashing it and then bug girl is sad because the bee died.

And then later on she's crying for the giant insects she's helping the others defeat.

Are you actually kidding me? Didn't you see that wasp inject venom into your friend? What about the ticks that you essentially sacrificed your gym teacher to so you could escape tick forest? Didn't you see that dobsonfly fucking decapitate that other guy who was infected with a parasite bug that forced him to go out into the open so he could get fucking killed?

You're the closest thing to a likable character this series has and you're crying for these actual monsters who you are still very much in the danger of being killed by. Crying for a squashed normal bee is fine. But these things are literally going to pierce your skin and suck you dry of you precious life nutrients until you're a fucking withered flesh husk.

...Actually, I take that back. Akira's a pretty likable character. You know, the guy who gets decapitated? I know his name because alpha guy screamed it three hundred times. He was also stung by the wasps and was fucked up by it. Rather than recovering like glasses girl did, he turned out to have a weird parasite and... it either caused him to go crazy or took him over, but for like ten minutes straight the movie is just him running around...

I have no fucking possible words to describe the sounds he's making. It's not him screaming, it's not him laughing, it's not words, what the FUCK are these sounds he's making??? I am utterly incapable of describing them. And this is towards the end of the movie. Which has another real memorable and baffling scene where the...

Where it's literally just the bug girl walking down a hallway for two minutes to badass EPIC guitar music.

It's just her walking at a snail's pace down a hallway with a black shadow behind her and in front of her and yet do you fucking hear that guitar?

Nothing at all is happening! But the guitar! The guitar means business!!!

And like once these two minutes are up she just comes outside like it was nothing and we didn't just have that two minutes of building up her walking outside. IF IT WASN'T GOING TO BUILD UP TO ANYTHING, YOU COULD HAVE JUST CUT THAT OUT.

~~I swear to god I feel an entire aneurysm coming on.~~

One of the other best scenes of the movie was when bully girl and alpha guy locked the rest of the group out of the medical clinic for literally no reason to get killed by the dobsonfly. They had plenty of time and mind you with minimal risk, they could have just let them come in too. Instead nope.

"Hey! Bug girl! The character that is repeatedly pointed out to being essential to continuing to survive on this island! You can just die out there with your knowledge of these bugs that are probably going to eventually break into the building to try and fucking kill us."

But then bug girl's friend aka glasses girl wakes up having finally recovered from the wasp venom, curious as to where bug girl is. After a short conversation and having revealed that she locked the others outside to die for literally no reason, bully girl says she's being too loud and tells alpha guy to gag her.

Alpha guy just saw his friend get taken over by a parasite and decapitated by a giant insect, so he's completely dazed and barely even registered what bully girl just said. So she reminds him that he has "the perfect gag" and...

...

...Hate.

Hate

I think it says something about your series when a character becomes the best character simply by ramming a fire extinguisher into the back of two other characters' heads. Like that was singlehandedly the best part of the entire movie. ~~And also that they just abandoned them there tied up. But I'm sure they fucking somehow come back later in the manga because of course they would.~~

...I think I pretty much hit the nail on the head last time. I thought the OVA was actually almost bearable because of how much they left out and cut around from the manga. This movie actually is a much more expansive adaptation of the manga.

But for me, what that essentially translates to is... an extra fifty minutes of just pure agony.

"Oh cool, we get to see the butterfly rape this time! Wait a minute... I didn't want to see the butterfly rape!"

And yet... I watched the whole thing. Sure, I skipped bits of the section that was literally just the entire OVA again but that still comes out to be about an hour. An hour I'll never ever be able to get back...

I give the Island of Giant Insects: MOVIE EDITION a 1 out of 100. But hey, let's pretend that ending stinger (???) never happened and that there's 0% chance that a second movie will happen.
___See you again next time... on the Island of Giant Insects...___
What? No fuck that. No hold on, this is the absolute final review on this piece of----
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sam19967
25/100
A dread film that's not worth your time
It’s not every day you dread the thing your about to watch but after hearing how bad this film is I though a have a look for myself and after watching it, please don’t.

Let’s start with the story, it’s a mess not only is the premise not set up (they happen to be on a plane that oh no happens to crash but all survivors know each other prior anyway) and no context for the whole story is given which means it’s already off to a bad start but things continue to go downhill from here. As the island (for some reason) is home to giant insects that (again of some reason that isn’t explained) like to feed off humans and the survivors are just the tasty treat the insects are looking for. Please bear in mind that explanation of the story premise is more than the story premise that is given in the film. While not dipping into too many story spoilers let’s continue after the opening 5 minutes does nothing all the survivors meet for the first time and no-one seems to care that they have survived a plane crash and are stuck on a desert island let alone fuss about giant human eating insects. What follows is a some really stupid set pieces that don’t really fit in (but oh well) and a largely predicable and slightly boring story. If you think about other survival horror films /games this is many a pick and mix of all of them, that said a crap and unoriginal story can be good if it’s well put together or just a piss take but this is neither. It’s not funny, it’s not funny because it’s stupid and things mostly happen for no reason they just happen. It feels like the main element of the story the giant insects doesn’t fit into the other part of the story, but it was forced in anyway.

The tone is all over the place as one moment the film can be slow and a little well thought out to then have an action scene that ranges from abused to absurdly stupid. The fact this film also uses ecchi moments with full nudity and moans of pleasure rather than pain (bordering a hentai at that point). A scene that was also in a uncensored OVA for the film to preview the work half a year before release. Because of the tone all impact the film could have had is lost but on the other hand it’s not funny also due to tone. Character wise it’s a fairly standard cast for a survival horror but this time even more on the nose this time. Theirs the one with all the knowledge, a group of delinquents, the sporty one, someone and the one that gets kill in the opening half hour. Okay that’s no problem but they also extremely stupid too, most of the time (nearly all the time) it’s their own fault and they spend half the time arguing with each other for no reason (I think everyone argued with anyone at some point). So the cast is pain unlikable. Normally I only talk about animation if the show has a unique art style or something stands out, it certainly does. Most the of insects (especially flying insects) are animated in CGI and is done badly. It just a massive contrast to the visuals in the rest of the film and is just crap.

Overall it’s just rubbish (all of it) and is a waste of time to watch.
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SenNkA
50/100
One of those anime that makes you read the manga (even though you might not like the story itself)
The Island of Giant Insect movie is a somehow unique story that links 'horror' and 'ecchi' together in a half-awful experience.
This review is written by an amateur who did not read the manga, just saw the movie and the OVA. The spoilers will NOT be marked, this is NOT a spoiler free review.
As for the difference between the movie and the OVA, I don't really think there is any, since most of the scenes from the OVA are from the first half of the movie.
All in all - the idea of giant bugs having to eat people because of how big they are deserves points, the animation was okay, and the voice acting was pretty enjoyable (give a round of applause to my favourite, Makoto Kaneko - the VA of Akira).

For everyone who wants to see this, here are the main tags:

Which perfectly sums up what you're going to get. Maybe a little detail - the CGI is bad. But then again, I hate CGI, so I might be biased.
I understand that they were working with limited time (even though anime movies tend to have over 2 hours sometimes), but we are missing big pieces of informations right from the beginning.
Who are they? What relationship do they have with each other? What connection do they have to each other? Where are they going and why? We get no real answers, instead we're thrown into the plane crash scene right away. We are introduced to our main character, Mutsumi Oribe, who is along with Kazuhiko Kai the most useful character in the whole movie.
There was no time to get into the other's characters, enjoy them or even get to know them. For various reasons. We've got a few assholes, a jock, someone I call a "self-seeking biach" and the useless glasses girl. All the others we meet have like 2 minutes of screen time.
I was the saddest about this poor girl:

Who ended like this:

Skipping through the time, we have erotic scenes, lots of boob scenes, a lesbian kiss, a sex scene, an almost grape scene...
Look. I enjoy horror. And I enjoy unique stories that give us something to think about (the whole theory of why the bugs are so big). But this... this was a mess. Such a big mess.
I didn't see any reviews for this, and I thought it was somehow enjoyable. The art style was deformed in places, the CGI awful, the story was lacking in detail, the ecchi scenes connected with gore awful... I had high hopes and I was excited, but it left me kind of frustrated and not satisfied at all.

What made me the angriest was the few last seconds just after the ending. (I knew it would come, I knew it!)

Are You Lost? did the same thing to me, so I wasn't as angry as I was annoyed. Even though the story was weird and the anime itself wasn't even half-good, those three people really made you wonder:
Who are they? What relationship do they have with each other? What connection do they have to each other? Where did they come from? (Pretty much the same questions we had at the beginning of the movie.)
The Island of Giant Insect could work as a commercial movie for manga, because if you want to have some questions answered, you will have to go and read it.
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