At a small rural American school, an alarm goes off--indicating that a nuclear attack is imminent. Not knowing exactly what to do, the school sends the children home. Much of the film centers on the children on this long walk home.
While I like the idea of "Ladybug Ladybug", the execution left a bit to be desired. Now I am sure that the folks who made it were very sincere and death by nuclear annihilation was a serious concern at that time--so I am not minimizing this at all. But the production came off as cheap and many of the vignettes seemed fake. And, a few of the kids seemed annoying. Not a terrible WHAT IF sort of film but it just seemed like it shouldn't have been that hard to make it better and more compelling.
While I like the idea of "Ladybug Ladybug", the execution left a bit to be desired. Now I am sure that the folks who made it were very sincere and death by nuclear annihilation was a serious concern at that time--so I am not minimizing this at all. But the production came off as cheap and many of the vignettes seemed fake. And, a few of the kids seemed annoying. Not a terrible WHAT IF sort of film but it just seemed like it shouldn't have been that hard to make it better and more compelling.