Review of Daddy Longlegs (2010) by Petra S — 18 Dec 2009

Okay so there's this man who has his kids part time after what seems to be a bad breakup from the kids mom. He's not necessarily a bad dad (at first, that turns when he sedates his kids with drugs so he can go to work but back to that later) but his need to be in the centre of the universe makes him intolerant to me. We get to spend time with these three people as well as dads new gf who reminds me of a runaway teen and might as well be just that.

Anywho, oh yes he sedates his kids and they sleep for days. Dad leaves them sleeping, spends the night at his gf and calls in every now and then (he talks to the answeringmachine since his kids are in comas). It's all just a blah movie until... Until a gigant mosquito (!) flies into the picture and drains the father of his blood. If I wasn't sitting in the corner all cornered in (with a man sleeping next to me! that's true - he fell asleep and I would have to if I hadn't stuffed myself with coke and sugar and not been so irritated that the movie started 20 minutes late and I was gonna hurry to catch the next movie at the Sthlm filmfestival) I would have left the theather about now. Instead I had to sit through the dad killing this gigant mosquito, blood everywhere, the man then sorta kidnapping his kids from their school and the movie ending with him going on an airbus with his kids and a fridge on his back. Yes a fridge on his back.

If you have any sense you will not see this movie. But if you do, bring bugspray. And spray it all over this sucky movie.