A waste of 90 minutes of my life

A different way of telling a story

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Animated fable about a cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant (John Cusack) who aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community."Igor" is the first animated feature film produced by Exodus Film Group and the French CGI animation studio, Sparx*. Work was split between the studio's Paris and Vietnam facilities, and despite a large array of celebrity voices, the film ended up becoming rather obscure. While not a smashing success, the film did earn a small profit. (This would also likely be the last film from Sparx*, as they were acquired by Virtuos shortly after.) Rotten Tomatoes writes, "With an animation style that apes Tim Burton, and a slew of cultural references that aren't clear enough to reach the crowds, Igor's patched together antics make it hard to see who the film is trying to please." This sums it up very nicely. The animation is clearly Burton-inspired (the king looks an awful lot like Halloween's mayor), and much of it was hit and miss. Fun, yes, but never a home run. Trying to pinpoint where it went wrong is difficult, though... something just feels off.

The land of Malaria was once a sunny happy place, but then the sunny days ended. The economy collapsed and the king decided on a new economy of evil inventions. Igor (John Cusack) wants to be more than the stereotypical assistant to his worthless master Dr. Glickenstein (John Cleese). He wants to create his own evil inventions.The animation is bright despite the fact that the sun never shines. It's very cartoonish while trying to create some smarter material. The problem I had is that I didn't love the characters. I get the sarcastic spin on the traditional fantasy. It doesn't make them lovable. John Cusack just doesn't have the voice. It doesn't match the cartoon. While I understand that they intentionally created an opposite Igor, it's just hard to see Cusack in that role.

An underrated character has overcoming dreams, but he only receives mockery from the people around him.However, thanks to his dedication, he wins trust on himself and he triumphs over the adversity...and over his own insecurities.Does that sound familiar? That phrase could describe a big number of animation films, from the good ones (like A Bug's Life or Finding Nemo) to the horrible ones (like Bee Movie or Doogal).Unfortunately, Igor is a new addition to the second group, and it punishes us with 90 minutes of forced humor, far-fetched design and generic action sequences.Igor tried to make likable references to the horror cinema, but it could not achieve that because of its lack of ingenuity and grace.We are in presence of another pathetic animation film with a bland and insipid screenplay.The only thing I liked on this film was the character Scamper, thanks to Steve Buscemi's solid voice work.Pity that character has a very limited appearance on this movie.I am not among them, but I know many people excuse even the weakest screenplays when the animation is good.Well, Igor will also disappoint them, since the animation is absolutely generic and insipid.Igor may be better than the previously mentioned Bee Movie and Doogal...but that is the same as saying that drinking poison with lemon flavor is better than drinking poison with buttermilk flavour.In fact, saying "less bad" is more proper in this case than saying "better".In summary, Igor is a horrible animation film and an authentic waste of time.

This movie should not have worked.It had fairly standard characters--the henchman who wants to be a great inventor, the bitter immortal, the stupid brain, the not-so-evil Frankenstein-esquire Monster. It had predictable gags, a clichéd plot, and voice actors that made it easy to tell who was the hero, who was the villain, and who was the comic relief. It was filled with puns that were absolute groaners. In any other movie, I would have shut off the television within the first ten minutes.But somehow, with this movie...it worked. The plot was comfortable and gave me a warm, cosy glow--while still somehow being unique and funny. Scamper and Brain (Brian) made me laugh until I almost cried, and when Igor and Eva interacted, I wanted to cry from happiness. Schadenfreude was an amazing villain. Dr. Glickenstein was, essentially, John Cleese, and Jay Leno made an excellent king. Yeah, the puns were still groaners, but somehow...they worked. And despite the fact that they set one up right from the very beginning of the movie, none of us who were watching the movie figured it out until they dropped the punchline on us. Several plot twists came out of nowhere, or we just didn't catch them. And the ending was just adorable.All in all, 10/10, and I recommend this movie to anyone. (By the way, I should mention that "we" who were watching this movie are juniors and seniors in college. This is a fun one for everybody.)