THOUGH THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION tries to be comical (it’s a bust as a giant monsters on the attack movie, there being only one giant spider, not an army as suggested by the title and poster, and this only a Volkswagen Beetle with legs welded onto it and its chassis covered in fake fur), it’s the horrific parts that form a knot in the Kid’s gut. His mother is not happy either, disapproving—as she disapproved of Empire of the Ants—of the s****l content and violence. She is particularly offended by a scene in which a teenage girl in a push-up top responds to a libidinous suggestion by her mother’s hillbilly boyfriend that she “ain’t no child no more” by waving her breasts back and forth, giggling, “Yeah, now I’m 35-24-35!”
His father doesn’t seem to mind too much though, and Shane is loving
