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| Bats | 
 enlarge | Director: Louis Morneau
Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Meyer, Bob Gunton, Leon, Carlos Jacott
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (61 reviews)
Sales Rank: 58575
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 91 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD04510D
Model: 04510
ISBN: 0767844521
UPC: 043396045101
EAN: 9780767844529
ASIN: B00003L9CQ
Release Date: February 22, 2000
Theatrical Release Date: October 22, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Genetically altered super-bats have been unleashed by a deranged scientist and its up to a small town sheriff and a team of bat specialists to stop this blood-thirsty menace from spreading. Special features: never-seen-before footage uncut r rated version batty bloopers photo galleries and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/23/2004 Starring: Lous Diamond Phillips Dina Meyer Run time: 91 minutes Rating: R Director: Louis Morneau
Amazon.com
This movie is for everyone who misses the old Roger Corman monster movies, only it has animatronics and computer effects instead of papiermache. The title of Bats pretty much sums up the plot: Crazed bats are running amok, disemboweling people and cattle. Only beautiful wildlife zoologist Dina Meyer (Johnny Mnemonic, Starship Troopers) and stalwart sheriff Lou Diamond Phillips (La Bamba, the Young Guns movies, Courage Under Fire) can save the day! Let's be frank: The scenario is ludicrous, the dialogue God-awful, the special effects unconvincing--try as they might, the bats just aren't that scary--but what does it matter? The movie rips along effectively. There's always a bat attack just around the corner and the director makes liberal use of all kinds of editing and camera effects, including a distorted bat-cam point of view that makes no sense at all but is pretty entertaining. Various scenes imitate Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, but lack even a hint of that movie's eerie precision. The actors play it straight without trying to be particularly serious. All in all, Bats knows what it is--trash-horror--and accomplishes its ends with good humor. Not quite up to the standard of Tremors (still the definitive trash-horror flick), but better than most recent efforts. --Bret Fetzer
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 They drop the ball on this film. It could be so much more. March 31, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Some B films are great and they have a cult following, but this B film will never have a cult following in latter years to come, because this film lacks a good plot. Every film need a good plot story or it will become a mess.
This film has got a weak plot story, but it not mess and it not scary-suspense action movie. It just scary looking bats killing people action movie.
If you people who saw this film and think this film is a scary-suspense action movie, you all are out of your minds.
If you people want to see a good scary-suspense action movie with a good story plot, see JAWS.
This film is not bad and it not good. You people should see this film only once on cable and never see it again.
 Inflight moviemaking from the writer of The Aviator March 22, 2006
Bats may well be the second best swarm of bats threatens Texas town movie ever made and also serves as a timely reminder that the `acclaimed playwright' who wrote The Aviator is also responsible for more generic efforts like Star Trek Nemesis and The Time Machine remake. The major thing the film has going for it is that at least it knows its rubbish even though it does play it straight, even when the dialog is pure z-movie ("Yes, major - it was us!"). The characters are standard issue: Lou Diamond Philips is the small town Texas sheriff hiding a dark secret (he's an opera fan), Dina Mayer the bat expert whose insistence that she could never willing hurt a bat translates into killing hundreds of the suckers while Bob Gunton's the mad scientist who genetically enhanced the vicious little bloodsuckers. Why? "Because I'm a scientist. That's what we do."
Naturally, the bats head for the nearest town showing a revival of Nosferatu (it doesn't state whether its Murnau or Herzog, but clearly small town Texans have eclectic arthouse tastes), and this being Texas, where everybody knows everything about everything and immediately fill the streets with expendable extras for the obligatory Bodega Bay scene. Of course, these deadly bats only need to take one swoop and bite out of the bit players to take them out of the movie, but can swarm all over one of the leading players and leave them only mildly scratched, just as it's a well know movie fact that being attacked by any flying creature brings on a bad case of weird camera effects, and this one ups The Swarm's slow motion with a misaligned lens: once your image is distorted, you'd better have your affairs in order Junk, but watchable junk.
low-brow and predictable September 15, 2005
Well, it looks as though anyone who gives this movie a bad rating is bound to get a bunch of unhelpful votes, but the fact of the matter is that Bats is a bad movie. It's the type of movie that's been made umpteen times before: there's some major crisis, a rag-tag group sets out to solve the crisis (often in defiance of inept authorities), but with all the odds stacked against them it looks mighty certain that they're going to fail, but just in the nick of time they pull it off. In short, this is a low-brow, predictable movie. Granted, it could have been worse--the production quality was okay and it was somewhat enntertaining--but in the end it is still a bad movie.
 i'm shocked at how low the movie is rated from other reviews September 11, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is fun, fun film that's worth having fun with it despite many of the reviews to the contrary. I enjoyed the cheesy aspect of this film, it's almost classic watching Lou Diamond Philips shoot bats. It's in vein of They Live and movies of fun campy nature. Don't let the low rating fool you see it to enjoy it.
Bad bat, bad! (But fun...) January 18, 2005
Scientist Sheila Casper (Dina Meyer) works in rural Texas with the local sheriff Emmett Kimsey (Lou Diamond Phillips, donning a drawl) to stop the spread of genetically mutated bats. Sheila is a bona fide bat-lover, so she does everything in her power to ensure the little bloodsuckers don't come to any harm - but the trigger-happy U.S. Army has very deadly plans for the winged menaces. A guilty pleasure... once.
Staci Layne Wilson
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