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Igor (2008)

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Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 57

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.

17

Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 15

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.

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Movie Info

John Cusack leads an all-star voice cast featuring Jay Leno, Molly Shannon, John Cleese, Jeremy Piven, Steve Buscemi, and Jennifer Coolidge in this computer-animated comedy about a gifted scientist who happens to have been born with a most unfortunate deformity. Igor (voice of Cusack) may have been born with a brilliant mind, but unfortunately everyone around him is too distracted by his pronounced hunchback to notice. Forced to serve as a lowly lab assistant to nefarious scientist Dr.

PG, 1 hr. 26 min.

Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy

,

Chris McKenna

Jan 20, 2009

$19.4M

MGM

Cast

All Critics (90) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (58) | DVD (10)

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.

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
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It is not visually stimulating.

November 6, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies | Comment
At the Movies
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Igor, like the Frankenstein's monster at the centre of its tired plot, looks like something cobbled together out of used, very used, parts.

September 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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While much of the banter between the characters is inventive, the plot turns are predictable - complete with a romantic misunderstanding straight out of The Karate Kid (and 20 other films).

September 19, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Pieced together from Tim Burton and various other sources with more desperation than inspiration.

September 19, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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You can think of it as an animated riff on the American dream: Our fate is determined not by the accident of our birth, but our own will, intelligence and talent. And let's not forget serendipity.

September 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | Comment
Dallas Morning News
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Igor has charm but misses a grand opportunity to evoke the world of James Whale when it would rather crib blatantly from Tim Burton.

June 2, 2010 Full Review Source: BrianOrndorf.com | Comment
BrianOrndorf.com

There's a lurking feeling that somewhere along the production line, nervous studio types ordered changes to make the movie more commercial.

May 12, 2009 Full Review Source: SFX Magazine | Comment
SFX Magazine

Director Anthony Leondis needs to go back to the lab.

March 25, 2009 Full Review Source: Screenwize | Comment
Screenwize

While kids will enjoy it, parents might get a bit bored.

March 5, 2009 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | Comment
7M Pictures

As far as goes its ability to stifle the young imagination, Igor has no recent competitor.

January 20, 2009 Full Review Source: Projection Booth | Comment
Projection Booth

A fun time-killer for kids aged tween and up...

January 16, 2009 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | Comment
The Age (Australia)

Igor celebrates a defiantly adolescent and suitably caricatured vision of mortality with the potential to have adults and special young malcontents in stitches.

January 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | Comment
Sydney Morning Herald

Igor sends up all sorts of cliches, but -- by degenerating into a mawkish romance and a boring race against time -- it also becomes one.

January 8, 2009 Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | Comment
FILMINK (Australia)

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.

January 8, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia) | Comment
Daily Telegraph (Australia)

Itâ(TM)s a strange, dark little film with suicidal rabbits and brains in jars, stunted heroes and Frankenstein-like objects of love.

December 19, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | Comment
At the Movies (Australia)

With a curly twist on the mad scientist concept, this subversively inventive animation bubbles over with originality and amusing dialogue.

December 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

I look forward to making it part of my regular Halloween movie viewing for many years to come.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comment (1)
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Audience Reviews for Igor

An original and entertaining film. Yeah it's not on the same intelligence levels as some Disney/Pixar films but this is extremely underrated. It teaches children to love who they are and have high goals no matter who they are. Some very funny moments and truly heartwarming. Extremely underrated.

October 11, 2008
StarCrossedVoyager
Sophie Burgess

Super Reviewer

A very different and funny take on the world of igor

January 2, 2011
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Michael Edwards

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