'Billions of dollars have been spent to make these nuclear plants safe, fail safe.'
'The odds against anything going wrong are astronomical doctor.'
'I Appreciate that doctor, but let me ask you, in all your fail safe techniques is there any provision against an attack by killer bees!'
Hello and welcome back to my Dark Corner of this Sick World.
We've got something a bit higher budget than the usual rubber monster film this week,
and with a star you might actually have heard of.
'Who the hell are you?'
My name is Michael Caine.
Always wanted to do that.
'I am Dr. Brad Crane an entomologist.'
This is Irwin Allen's the Swarm, so what's it all about.
'It's a complicated story it starts a year ago, but let's skip that.'
'We've be fighting a losing battle against the insects for 15 years,'
'but I never thought I'd see the final faceoff in my lifetime,'
'and I never dreamed that it would turn out to be the bees...'
'They've always been our friends.'
And now they're not.
The military want to use poison to deal with these African killer bees,
'If you can explain to me how you airdrop chemicals without killing the native insect life.'
Quite right? I bet Michael has got a more environmentally sound solution
'Possibly'
'Load the choppers with the sound horns and spread the big oil slick over the Gulf acknowledge.'
Much better.
The plot is nonsense.
'Just tell them the war that I've always talked about has finally started.'
The dialogue is laughable.
'I have cardio pep compound in my bag.'
and the comic relief makes me want to hang myself.
'Please standby, sir.'
There's a good cast the effects hold up.
The only real problem is that it doesn't have any central message.
'Your doctor Hubbard was out collecting live Africans. He's brought on back to the complex.'
Why wouldn't he just say bees?
'Tomorrow, there'll be no more Africans.'
Oh no...
'46 towns not including Houston and now directly in the path of the Africans.'
'and cold air coming down with an Alaskan front...'
'Is keeping the Africans confined to the Texas area.'
'You've dropped your poison pellets and the African spit at them'
'They're brighter than I thought.'
'Revised time table coming through sir...'
'They have been here some time...'
'Breeding.'
'Smells like bananas.'
'This is really a dress rehearsal so set procedure for any future African challenges.'
Okay
You know what it's a really long film.
These are just a few isolated moments...
'I will track down and destroy every Africa in this country wherever they are!'
It's not like there's a sign up at the end of the film saying Americans are better than Africa. Oh my god
We should have stuck with the rubber monster films.
'Reach out...'
BEE!
'There is no bee in this room.'
'What the hell is that!'