That was an excellent one.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Never site a ski resort next to a research facility which is experimenting on giant spiders for military purposes. Or vice versa, I'm not sure which. And, if you do, make sure one of the scientists doesn't decide to spin the research off in his own perverted direction. Because, if you do, you'll get this film, and it really isn't worth it.I will make a point which I have made before elsewhere - this is NOT the worst film I have ever seen: the camera-work is very good, the location work is good, the sound is crisp and clear, so the production team has done its job well (there are plenty of films out there which are almost unwatchable due to technical ineptitude).But the story is trite and predictable, the script is obvious, the acting is no more than adequate, and the CGI spiders fail to convince. This is, at best a time-passer.

No, not the spiders, the characters' gene pools are the biggest threat here. This movie was crammed full of idiot characters I cared nothing about whatsoever. Had me rooting for the spiders all the way, hoping they would make sure these people never procreated. The film was boring, riddled with plot holes, inane dialogue, crap effects and just soooo many goofs I lost count half way through. Had to watch this in two parts as I just couldn't take it after an hour. I seldom if ever don't finish a film though, so cringed my way through the dismal last 20 and a bit minutes. I wish I hadn't bothered.Yes, I know this was made for cable, it's meant to be a bit of fun and mindless, but did they really have to make it THAT bad? I love a good b-movie, but this was grade z garbage.See Arachnophobia, Kingdom of the spiders or pretty much any other spider movie out there. And if you want to see good skiing, just watch anything else but this. Even Ski School and Ski Patrol had better actors and skiing.

My cousin recommended this movie to me and after watching it I will say that this is the last time I ever take film advice from a six year old! (true story) The blurb on the front of the DVD box reads: "Eight Legged Freaks meets Hot Dog: The Movie". That actually makes the movie look less appealing!In all seriousness this is a typical (probably quintessential) Sci-Fi Channel movie, bland and inoffensive with giant a creature (or in this case creatures), a scientist, a strike force, and a laboratory that's gone to hell.As I watched Ice Spiders, I couldn't help but wonder if the owners of a ski resort would be held liable in a civil court for deaths resulting from a giant spider invasion! Would their insurance even cover that?Star Patrick Muldoon is pretty amusing as the aging ski dude in desperate need of a comb. Also it's neat to see Stephen J. Cannell in a supporting role.Director Tibor Takacs made one of my favorite films as a kid, The Gate. It's kind of disappointing to see him working as a hired gun on mediocre TV movies.

I remember playing Bomberman 64 as a child. It was a frustrating video game with indulgent level design and tedious item collecting. One thing I loved about that game was its boss fights. Players would fight large monsters at the end of each stage. One of these monsters was a large spider-like creature called "Cold Killer." That was way back in 1997, but Cold Killer looks better than the CGI rejects in Tibor Takács' Ice Spiders.Imagine body armor made from spider silk. It would be indestructible, but impossible to obtain. Now imagine a government sponsored program to genetically alter spiders so that they can produce silk in bulk. Don't neglect to place this secret government facility next to a ski resort which apparently has no computers or cell phone service. Welcome to Ice Spiders! That's the whole movie, seriously. Random people die from poorly edited spider attacks. The actual "death scenes" occur at a distance, and the only gore visible is the aftermath. I was hoping the movie would devolve into stylized violence but it didn't. Sci-Fi Channel films don't have enough budget to produce lifelike monsters which eliminates suspense. Humor would have given us distraction from the terribly rendered spiders.The DVD case will have you believe that the film follows a pre-Olympic ski team while they train. While mostly true, it's misleading. No one on the ski team dies, not even the stereotypically arrogant youngster. The team arrives, is threatened by a single spider, and becomes irrelevant thereafter. Focusing on a small group would have provided focus to the picture. Instead, only bit characters are killed. Most have no dialog so we have no connection to them.Once they arrive, the story shifts to ski instructor Dan Dashiell and sexy yet unconvincing scientist April Sommers. Both are played by subpar actors Patrick Muldoon and Vanessa Williams who don't act seriously. Muldoon is the worse of the two. He responds to each situation with the same tone, whether he discovers a body in the woods or impales a spider with a deer antler. I also find it amusing that his character suffers from a past skiing injury but isn't affected by it now. Williams changes her voice tone and expression enough to resonate to the plot. Her outfits are unusual, though. She is always (I think) shown wearing pink winter clothes, like your wealth friend's super hot daughter would wear. The movie has no suspense, no gore, and is poorly acted. Is it worse than I've described? No it isn't. Some explanation is provided for the spiders' unusual growth, and April explains how they survive the cold. I didn't expect such detail in the script and it saved the experience for me. The entire experience is blasé but at least some part of it is redeemable. It's like tutoring a group of unruly students, one of whom has a natural talent for the subject. While the group is still disinterested, one doesn't have to struggle as much to instruct that individual student.There are many spider movies out there but not many have been released recently. The last Hollywood one (excluding Spider-man) was Eight Legged Freaks. That movie is this one presented effectively as a comedy. It's difficult to imagine giant spiders eating everyone so why not make it funny? You could make it scary too, like Arachnophobia. Both films had higher budgets than this one but they knew what type of film they were. Ice Spiders doesn't know which type of film it wants to be. The screenplay is full of unintended humor and the visual effects aren't realistic enough to be scary. It's a mess of sappy dialog and poor digital animation.* out of *****