If you're a Zombie fanboy, don't read this. I will not be able to sway you're thinking. So, enjoy the movie, you're gonna love it! It even has Mike Myers and the Firefly gang in it!
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto revolves around a bunch of characters interacting with one another in a rescue mission(El Superbeasto), marriage story (Dr. Satan) and....something or other (Beasto's sister etc. etc.). The story isn't anything noteworthy, it's just a go-with-the-flow type of thing.
Why I watched the movie is because I like Zombie. I loved his comic book The Nail, and I think his movies are alright. And it's been a while since I've seen an animated flick with boobs and blood. So, yeah, I was pretty psyched to see this. Boobs, blood, and something that'll push the limits a tad in animation; subject manner wise. Oh, and of course to laugh as well.
Do we get any of those things? Yeah, we do. We get a bunch of boobs flopping all over the place. We even get some violence. Very cartoony violence that shouldn't offend anyone. But one thing we don't get is the laughs. El Superbeasto has to be one of the un-funniest flicks I've seen in a long, long while. With each character machine-gunning there lines at you, you're bombarded by joke after joke after joke. And they all (around 95% of them), amazingly, stink.
I'm not kidding. This movie as a comedy is a gigantic failure. If you use the "I just threw up in my mouth a little bit" line, you (should) know you have reached bottom of the barrel for joke ideas. Only reality-TV stars, and people who try too hard use that line. Then you have Rosario Dawson playing a hood-rat that is one of most annoying and cliché characters I've seen in quite some time. The list goes on and on, consistently, with weak and lame joke one after the other. Now don't get me wrong here, there are probably a couple jokes that worked, hell, maybe even a handful. But due to the non-stop stream of dialogue, it's tough to catch everything. That's also a reason why all the songs stunk so bad. Yeah, there's songs and I think some dancing as well.
Besides the utter failure it was as a comedy and as a movie, in my opinion, the production values were very good. It's got that Ren and Stimpy/Sponge Bob style to it which is vibrant and oodles of fun. The delivery by the voice-actors was all fine as well, which makes it even a bigger shame having the writing be so poor.
The film even though has boobs and blood and swears, it's just much too silly to be offensive. So, though I was hoping for something that'd possibly push limits, I should have known better. It's definitely not for little kids, but this is something I would have eaten up when I was 10 or so.
Instead of making this let-down of a film, Rob should have invested his money into helping the creators of KORGOTH OF BARBARIA. Now THAT is a funny, brutal and awesome piece of animation.
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto revolves around a bunch of characters interacting with one another in a rescue mission(El Superbeasto), marriage story (Dr. Satan) and....something or other (Beasto's sister etc. etc.). The story isn't anything noteworthy, it's just a go-with-the-flow type of thing.
Why I watched the movie is because I like Zombie. I loved his comic book The Nail, and I think his movies are alright. And it's been a while since I've seen an animated flick with boobs and blood. So, yeah, I was pretty psyched to see this. Boobs, blood, and something that'll push the limits a tad in animation; subject manner wise. Oh, and of course to laugh as well.
Do we get any of those things? Yeah, we do. We get a bunch of boobs flopping all over the place. We even get some violence. Very cartoony violence that shouldn't offend anyone. But one thing we don't get is the laughs. El Superbeasto has to be one of the un-funniest flicks I've seen in a long, long while. With each character machine-gunning there lines at you, you're bombarded by joke after joke after joke. And they all (around 95% of them), amazingly, stink.
I'm not kidding. This movie as a comedy is a gigantic failure. If you use the "I just threw up in my mouth a little bit" line, you (should) know you have reached bottom of the barrel for joke ideas. Only reality-TV stars, and people who try too hard use that line. Then you have Rosario Dawson playing a hood-rat that is one of most annoying and cliché characters I've seen in quite some time. The list goes on and on, consistently, with weak and lame joke one after the other. Now don't get me wrong here, there are probably a couple jokes that worked, hell, maybe even a handful. But due to the non-stop stream of dialogue, it's tough to catch everything. That's also a reason why all the songs stunk so bad. Yeah, there's songs and I think some dancing as well.
Besides the utter failure it was as a comedy and as a movie, in my opinion, the production values were very good. It's got that Ren and Stimpy/Sponge Bob style to it which is vibrant and oodles of fun. The delivery by the voice-actors was all fine as well, which makes it even a bigger shame having the writing be so poor.
The film even though has boobs and blood and swears, it's just much too silly to be offensive. So, though I was hoping for something that'd possibly push limits, I should have known better. It's definitely not for little kids, but this is something I would have eaten up when I was 10 or so.
Instead of making this let-down of a film, Rob should have invested his money into helping the creators of KORGOTH OF BARBARIA. Now THAT is a funny, brutal and awesome piece of animation.