There's a lurking feeling that somewhere along the production line, nervous studio types ordered changes to make the movie more commercial.
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Igor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:30
Rotten:55
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $19,420,496
Synopsis: In a land of mad scientists and diabolical inventions, what do you do when you’re born with a hunch on your back? You become an Igor. A hilarious twist on the classic monster movie, "Igor"... [More]
Starring: John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Jennifer Coolidge
Director: Tony Leondis
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04/23/09
Director Anthony Leondis needs to go back to the lab.
03/25/09
As far as goes its ability to stifle the young imagination, Igor has no recent competitor.
01/20/09
A fun time-killer for kids aged tween and up...
01/16/09
Igor celebrates a defiantly adolescent and suitably caricatured vision of mortality with the potential to have adults and special young malcontents in stitches.
01/15/09
Igor sends up all sorts of cliches, but -- by degenerating into a mawkish romance and a boring race against time -- it also becomes one.
01/08/09
If you are the type that wishes filmmaker Tim Burton still put his name to funky animated monstrosities like The Nightmare Before Christmas, then Igor will fit the bill just nicely.
01/08/09
It’s a strange, dark little film with suicidal rabbits and brains in jars, stunted heroes and Frankenstein-like objects of love.
12/19/08
With a curly twist on the mad scientist concept, this subversively inventive animation bubbles over with originality and amusing dialogue.
12/19/08
I just didn’t think there were anywhere close to enough laughs in this movie and that ultimately, as a comedy, is what it’s got to deliver.
11/06/08
Top CriticIt is not visually stimulating.
11/06/08
Top CriticI look forward to making it part of my regular Halloween movie viewing for many years to come.
10/18/08
It is a pale impostor lacking in the three dimensional feel of Burton’s animated classics.
10/18/08
Like most acts of cruel mediocrity committed in the name of entertaining children, Igor presumably seemed like a good idea at the time.
10/18/08
Production values are first rate considering the budget is much less than the kind Pixar or DreamWorks Animation routinely work with.
10/18/08
But there’s not much form to the plot which develops in fits and starts. Nevertheless, those kids that weren’t confused appeared to enjoy it, so there you go.
10/17/08
Igor's leaden plotting, miscast voiceovers and tasteless one-liners are likely to leave every member of the family wishing this creation had never been born.
10/17/08
You do feel that, with it’s knowing one-liners and classic movie references, Igor is trying terribly hard to amuse an adult audience, possibly at the expense of children it should be entertaining.
10/17/08
This film is outclassed by the Pixar stable, but it's entertaining stuff for the children.
10/17/08
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