I could've gone either way on this movie, veering from "schlocky and silly modern Frankenstein flick" to "stylish and relevant look at the dangers of gene manipulation".
I'm settling for the latter, because whether it was schlocky or not, it was entertaining.
The fact that it was actually a story about parenthood doesn't detract from the entertainment.
Adrian Brody and Sarah Polley play a pair of renegade scientists, who share lab and bed. They respond to the order to cease experimentation on gene splicing that has so far only resulted in violent, man-made creatures by continuing to work in secret, splicing her genes into another man-made thingamabob.
This new "thing" develops at breakneck speed, such that within a few months it's a fully-grown, not at all unattractive, female lab experiment.
Your basic hot monster. But that would be giving the game away.
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