Review of Microscopic Mysteries

. . . into glass jars, breathlessly narrating to himself their "Battles to the Death." As an alleged grown-up, Mr. Smith gleefully narrates anthropomorphic accounts of one bug fight after another here in MICROSCOPIC MYSTERIES. Some of Pete's Friday Night at the Fights accounts seem to be almost coherent; others skew wildly out of control as the empathizing Mr. Smith gets carried away on the floods of his own emotions. For instance, at one point Pete lets loose with "You cannot have your fuzzy couch, and eat your caterpillar, too." Watching this exercise in Micro-Sadism unfold on its small but vicious scale, one cannot help buy yearn for someone to yell, "Oops, we just shrunk Pete Smith!" Then Pete's final comment--no doubt dripping with irony--of "Sweet dreams" would be turned on its head, as the viewers chortled watching Mini-Pete having "Battles to the Death" with the black spider, poisonous centipede, scorpion, wasp, ant lion, tarantula, and Jerusalem cricket. As Mr. Smith says, "Each insect has a deadly enemy." In the case of Mini-Pete, that would probably amount to All of the Above.