this couldn not be funny and even if it have intend to be . it be a 21st century rendition of those awful 1950s drive in fodder and supersized radioactive insect movie . it just doesn not know it a parody . it really think it a serious movie . a a result and it have turn out much funny than date movie and epic movie and scary movie and all the uninspired clone of the zucker brother wonderfully screwy airplane ( fly high down under ) and naked gun flick . great set and nice photography but the praise stop there . the script be stupid and the acting be atrocious . grab snack and laugh your head off . lucy lawless be a scientist battle swarm of carnivorous locust and a cya secretary of agriculture and an army general eager to gas the bug and most of america . all be of about equal intelligence . well and maybe collectively the grasshopper be smarter . remarkable and give they be all stick on prop and cgi . btw and the unintentional humour be so raucous i never peg xena until i come to imdb . she isn not nearly so visually arrest out of leather . her estranged boyfriend though and another scientist and be another matter . he could push this flick over with specialized audience niche . it be guffaw time for me when he walk into command central and be introduce a a leader in some sort of scientific field . square jawed and wavy haired and such a caricature of handsome and you know he must have just come straight from his other job . a an underwear model . low moment but big laugh represent every time lucy jump up and down like an 11 year old try to get the attention of a doubting bigwig . when the big mid script plot turn be the reveal that lucy be pregnant . prime moment for a line something like and you remember that night . you come straight home after shoot the g string commercial and you be unstoppable . no matter while viewer be already laugh so hard they would have miss the line . oh yes and and those amazing cgi effect . really love the computer simulation of the usa at command central where the dark swarm of dot ( represent the locust and ya know ) spread across several state a fast a spilled water cover a granite counter top . enough already . you get it . do not approach this a serious entertainment . oh and i forgot . there be one good performance . it mike farrell ( b. j. hunnicutt on mash ) a a man outstanding in his field . you get it while a farmer . that cuz the locust attack all the crop in midwestern america . those good and honest folk do not deserve such dis .