'Bad Milo' is about a monster that lives up a man's...er, most 'intimate' of holes. If you think that type of film is right for you then it probably is. However, if you think that idea sounds just about the most stupid and disgusting thing you've ever heard, it's probably best you skip this one and move on with your life.
I can't give much more of a detailed plot description that my opening line. I reckon it sums it up pretty well. And I have to confess getting a fair amount of enjoyment from this movie (what that says about me I'll leave up to a trained psychologist!). It's a 'horror' film, only it's not. It's too stupid a premise to be truly scary. Yes, there are some gruesome scenes, a fair amount of blood and a creature that switches from being evil and full of hideous teeth, to cute and cuddle and something you'd like to snuggle up in bed with. Yes, seriously.There is so much more emphasis on the daftness of the film that it's way more of a silly comedy with some blood and guts thrown in. The cast never take it seriously which means that we - the audience - don't have to either. All the actors to a good job and are perfectly functional and about the only name I knew from the cast list was Patrick Warburton, thanks to his voicework from various irreverent cartoons. But it's 'Milo' himself who steals the show. I read online that the film-makers wanted to go for 'practical effects' over computer-generated ones. So, with the exception of the monster's 'blinking motion' he's completely animated by puppeteers. And this helps to add a level of realism to the interaction between human and, er, a$$ monster (and I can't believe I just used the phrase 'realism' while talking about this story!).
Overall, 'Bad Milo' is a great (bad) B-movie of a film. If you set your brow low enough you can't help but fall in love with an evil little demon with razor-sharp teeth who lives up a man's...
7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that
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