Them!

THEM! (1954) - June 10, 2011
A disappointing film about the discovery of a bunch of giant, mutated ants around a small desert town.  Not nearly as interesting or exciting as you'd think it would be.  The main problem here is that the bulk of the film consists of a rather tedious investigation into the ants; I think it takes at least 20 minutes before the word "ant" is even mentioned -- up to that point the characters are all trying to figure out what's causing all the damage around town.  Most of the film after that concerns the investigation into the location of the ants' new nest.  This wouldn't necessarily be a big problem, but all of the characters are super bland, and the investigation isn't particularly interesting on its own.  The scenes where we actually see the giant ants are pretty good, and fairly well done (the big ants are actually reasonably convincing, especially given when this film was made), but there's probably five minutes total of actual ant shenanigans.  **