Saw The Human Centipede. It was a pretty fun movie. It relies very heavily on its premise which is by now known to every school-child and their grandmother, but it's a new concept if nothing else. Unfortunately this reliance on the concept leads to some flailing once the concept is exhausted and we descend into boilerplate cops and escape plans. This latter half of the film is not so fun, but the beginning and particularly the middle segment, when the centipede is revealed, is wonderfully grotesque and excessive in a grand, unhinged, Marquis DeSade sort of way.
The beginning of the film is pretty boilerplate as well, opening with two heavily made-up girls who ask the local Germans if they "speak American" and whose car breaks down in the woods where (Wouldn't you know it) there's no cellphone signal. From this unpromising start, we get to the mad scientist who is just great. Slow and malign, selfish and refined, he's like some disgraced SS officer, hiding out in the wilds all this time. The actor is clearly digging his role.
This is not the greatest film, but it's ambitious and I was able to overlook its flaws and enjoy its excesses and ridiculousness.
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