good back-story, and good acting

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The movie category for this is Incorrect, it is a 'Comedy, horror, Sci fi'--with Comedy coming firstA viewer has to get past the first 5 minutes or so, Mr. Mihm, (the guy who put this thing together along with his wife), put their son in it, and his short acting stint is pretty non believable and not funny at all, but after his character meets up with the mom, it starts to get funny, and pretty much stays that way for the rest of the movieI got a lot of chuckles out of this. A lot of times with this kind of movie it has a lot of good looking young people, and it ends up being pretty flat.This particular movie has adults for the most part, and U can tell they got a kick out of portraying their characters, and got into the spirit of the thingThoroughly enjoyable PG comedy horror movie

Remember all those unfunny people you've met in your lifetime who genuinely thought they were funny even though no one else did and were never even aware of it? Well, they apparently got together and made this movie with just lousy dialogue and characterizations, plus a magnified tarantula superimposed in scenes and an obviously fake spider head for close-ups. I thought the 1977 'The Crater Lake Monster' was one of the worst movies I'd ever seen but this movie effortlessly edged ahead of that one. They simply try to hard to parody the subject and the 50s and it just doesn't work, unless of course their intent was to make as horrible a movie as the ones they're referencing.Save your brain cells and give this one a huge pass - the 'star' rating that is 6+ is obviously manipulated and is not reflective of the quality of this movie - you surely have the film makers, their friends and their relatives to thank for that slanted score.

I can see the attempt to make this a 50's style film, but it doesn't work. Now I have seen movies of the 1950's including the nature on the rampage ones. This isn't that. There are many jokes throughout poking fun at 50's life, and that joke wears thin really quickly. The movie, simply, is too self aware to be a real throwback. Maybe I'm being too critical of the film but...it's a good attempt but just doesn't work. Stop trying too hard.

The is the 8th movie made my Christopher R. Mihm, all of which pay loving homage to those wonderful B 'monster' movies of the 1950's. Well, except one which is really a murder mystery. If you love watching Them or Robot Monster, seeing actors like John Agar and Richard Carlson on the screen, being amazed at the world of 50's style special effects (only better I think), you can't help but love Mr. Mihm's movies. The Giant Spider is his best one yet! There is drama, humor, action, love and thrills to satisfy all. It is obvious that everyone involved with the making of this movies truly loves what they are doing. Be prepared to laugh out loud, to cringe in 'fear', and to just enjoy a little over an hour of fun!!!!! This is a must see!