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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThis is squirmy, hilarious fun.
- 75The PlaylistDrew TaylorThe PlaylistDrew TaylorWith its tongue placed firmly in cheek (it is, after all, called Big Ass Spider), it delivers on a whole bunch of laughs and thrills, in a way that some big budget spectaculars can't even muster.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMike Mendez's shamelessly Corman-esque Big Ass Spider! does almost everything just a tiny bit better than it needs to.
- 70VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasAn exceedingly good-natured Z-grade creature feature.
- 60Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzGrunberg and Boyar have a charming, if broad, chemistry. It’s all kind of cheesy, of course, but it’s meant to be. And the effects, when not deliberately silly, aren’t bad.
- 50Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenLos Angeles TimesMark OlsenThe movie has a fan's heart, a sense of loving every goofball moment, but as directed by Mike Mendez it also seems perpetually caught between being a spoof or playing it straight and winds up falling between the cracks rather than rising above.
- 50RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonRogerEbert.comOdie HendersonBig Ass Spider! wants to serve two masters, the ones who unabashedly enjoy this type of movie without shame, and the ones who openly mock it with false senses of superiority.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe director, Mike Mendez, shows no signs of knowing how to make campy horror work the way that the creators of similar movies on Syfy do. It has to be either subtle or over the top. This is neither.
- 25ObserverRex ReedObserverRex ReedBig Ass Spider, lazily directed by Mike Mendez and unwisely written without a trace of necessary camp by Gregory Gieras, aims for satire and settles for stale shtick. It ends with the song “La Cucaracha,” leaving the door open for more insects to come. Cockroaches, anyone?