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.
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11/06/08
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Igor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:3
Rotten:14
Average Rating:4.2/10
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
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Top CriticIt is not visually stimulating.
11/06/08
Top CriticIgor, like the Frankenstein's monster at the centre of its tired plot, looks like something cobbled together out of used, very used, parts.
09/19/08
Top CriticWhile 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).
09/19/08
Top CriticPieced together from Tim Burton and various other sources with more desperation than inspiration.
09/19/08
Top CriticYou 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.
09/19/08
Top CriticMy kid went with it, and I had a fairly good time, as I waited for the reappearance of a marble-mouthed peasant tart, voiced by Jennifer Coolidge. Half the time her line readings are hilarious, and it's impossible to know why.
09/19/08
Top CriticTo convince you that it's full of surprises, the movie throws in Louis Prima songs where they don't belong, and it riffs on classic monster-movie cliches mostly by spinning them into newly unfunny cliches.
09/19/08
Top CriticThere's scant reward for sitting through Igor, an animated twist on the Frankenstein story that never sparks to life.
09/19/08
Top CriticA Frankensteinian mishmash of parts, with drawings that are derived from Tim Burton grafted onto a script filled with Shrek-style sarcasm.
09/19/08
Top CriticWhile 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
Top CriticEven the desolate future envisioned in this summer's hit Wall-E has more immediate appeal for kids who might not be familiar with the source material for Igor.
09/18/08
Top CriticDirector Tony Leondis and screenwriter Chris McKennna have mined everything from Young Frankenstein to Sleepy Hollow to Japanese anime to the German Neo-Expressionists to create that rare thing, a cartoon for adults.
09/18/08
Top CriticIgor 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
Top CriticA 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
Top CriticAlthough the visuals tantalize and the actors providing the voices add a lot of sass, the result is only so-so.
09/16/08
Top CriticWith its belabored gags, misfired pop-culture references and garish visuals crammed together like so many disjointed body parts, this manic kidpic cranks up the annoy-o-meter early on and rarely lets up.
09/15/08
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September 18, 2008:
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