Igor? No. More like Ibore.
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09/19/08
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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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Reviews for Igor
Tim Burton, have you misplaced your sketchpad? Because I think Igor found it.
09/19/08
A blind children's chorus singing 'I Can See Clearly Now' is among the highlights of this otherwise forgettable animated feature.
09/21/08
I look forward to making it part of my regular Halloween movie viewing for many years to come.
10/18/08
Tepid stuff, with a plot so transparently predictable that even 5-year-olds who haven't been to the movies much will be saying, 'I've seen it.'
09/24/08
So bad it's scary.
09/18/08
Igor tries to spoof Mary Shelley just as Shrek did the Brothers Grimm, but something tells us this movie's charmless hero won't make an ogre-size impression on kid audiences. Call it a hunch.
09/17/08
A modest do-gooder trying to pretend that its not Cartoonland's most direct attack of the Bush administration.
09/19/08
for riffing so expertly on classic horror flicks, and for plumbing the depths of horror in the relentless perkiness of "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie, it deserves a medal
09/13/08
This dark-toned animation borrows its style from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride without adding much of its own to the macabre mayhem.
10/17/08
This is what happens when you combine THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS with SHREK. It should have been called DRECK!
10/06/08
It is not visually stimulating.
11/06/08
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
an adventurous, amiable attraction.
09/25/08
Igor has charm but misses a grand opportunity to evoke the world of James Whale when it would rather crib blatantly from Tim Burton.
09/18/08
It's fatally split between catering for children who won't understand most of the references, and adults who will find it garish and relentlessly noisy.
10/17/08
While this is no WALL·E, or Ratatouille, it does bring to mind Monsters, Inc. and some of the visual flair of Burton's The Corpse Bride.
09/18/08
John Cusack is the voice of Igor, a hunchbacked laboratory assistant to the doomed mad scientist Dr. Glickenstein (voiced by John Cleese), in this irresistible animated comedy
09/11/08
[Y]oung viewers [who] like a mix of slapstick and watered down scares they'll have a fine time. Adults will be left rolling their eyes and checking their watches.
09/19/08
A potentially original premise and an eager voice cast led by John Cusack and Molly Shannon are left to decay amid a clunky story vaguely reminiscent of Monsters, Inc. and images often resembling visuals rejected from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.
09/17/08
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