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Meet the Applegates

1990

Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 9% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 2784 2.8K

Plot summary

Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.

Director

Michael Lehmann Photo
Michael Lehmann

Top cast

Glenn Shadix Photo
Glenn Shadix as Greg Samson
Stockard Channing Photo
Stockard Channing as Jane Applegate
Ed Begley Jr. Photo
Ed Begley Jr. as Richard P. Applegate
Lee Garlington Photo
Lee Garlington as Nita Samson
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828 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 1
1.5 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 6 / 10

suburban satire

The Applegates (Ed Begley Jr, Stockard Channing) are a peculiar suburban family. They live under assumed identities to infiltrate and sabotage the nuclear power plant. They are actually giant preying mantis from the Brazilian rainforest which is being stripped by development. Their queen, Aunt Bea (Dabney Coleman), is invading Ohio in three months. The daughter Sally falls for Vince Sampson from next door. When Vince forces himself on her, she goes mantis on him. The suburbs are harder than it seems. Sally gets pregnant. Johnny turns into a weed head. Jane goes crazy with her Discovery card. Richard gets fired. Then Aunt Bea arrives.I wouldn't say that there are any big laughs. It does have a weird dark satirical take on the suburbs. There is also an environmental message. This all adds up to an unseen cult movie. It has some fun takes. Michael Lehmann directed one of the great teen satires of all times, Heathers. This is way weirder.
Reviewed by Theo Robertson 6 / 10

Who's It Marketed For ?

MEET THE APPLEGATES is a comedy horror movie and I guess on that level it works very well as a bunch of giant praying mantis disguise themselves as an all American family and live in middle America while planning to sabotage a nuclear power plant in order to save their jungle environment So far so good as far as the premise goes but you quickly find yourself asking the question as to what the film is trying to say . Is it an anti racist parable or a satire on present day dysfunctional American family life ? Surely if the movie has a green conscience it should appeal to children but within 20 minutes we've already seen an attempted rape while more and more bad language and adult situations like adultery and drug taking are introduced into the story and long before the movie ends you notice that there's a very uneven feel between scenes which makes for a very strange movie Okay I'll be generous and take it as entertainment in which case MEET THE APPLEGATES just about succeeds if that's what it's intended as . I wasn't exactly falling out of my chair but there are some amusing moments while the climax featuring a couple of giant bugs in a fist fight did bring a perplexed smile to my face
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