What's that smell down in Dingley-Dangley Dell?

Rating: 1/10 (21 January 2006)

It is difficult to see how any comments could possibly spoil a movie that already spoils itself with such surgical precision, but for what it's worth, be warned: part of the big surprise may be divulged in what follows.
Uh-oh. Look out. Here it comes.
Really. I warned you.
Last chance to turn back.
What's the big surprise? The whole creature thing is a charade to keep the inbred villagers from wandering out into the real world. It might have been more entertaining if the creatures had turned out to be real, and the village was a charade they cooked up to keep their children from wandering out of the forest.
More than one commentator has noted that this plodding, pompous piece of crap tells basically the same story you can find in a half hour episode of Twilight Zone. Strangely enough, the original "Teenage Cavemen" tells a very similar tale also. For that matter, the story of Adam and Eve is not entirely unrelated. The point being, this whole idea is as stale as the biscuits from King Tut's tomb. And presumably Mr. Shyamalan is not really such an arrogant fool that he doesn't realize it.
Every person who paid money to see this garbage should have his money refunded, and receive a personal apology from the producers.