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06/24/06
Spawn (1997)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:7
Rotten:26
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Spawn is an overbearing, over-violent film that adds little to the comic book adaptation genre.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: The ambitious, visually extravagant big-screen adaptation of comic artist Todd McFarlane's popular eponymous Gothic serial, helmed by first-timer Dippe (formerly of Industrial Light & Magic). After... [More]
Starring: Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, Martin Sheen, Theresa Randle
Director: Mark Dippé
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01/15/08
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03/26/09
Top CriticNo review available.
05/07/07
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01/13/04
The digital effects in Spawn are numbingly numerous -- the film seems almost like an animated feature with some human stars or a virtual reality arcade game.
01/01/00
As a comic book, Spawn may be first rate, but, as a movie, it's a retread.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
... badly acted and executed.
01/01/00
A would-be cult film carefully constructed from parts of other cult films.
10/07/04
... the filmmakers filled their film with tons of FX, leaving little place to action scenes.
09/10/02
This hopelessly redundant action gross-out aspires to a form of hip vacuousness -- and may achieve it.
04/26/07
Top Critic... Spawn delivers as much eye candy as the best, but not nearly as much substance.
01/01/00
For all its state-of-the-art effects, the movie feels deeply derivative, from the thrash score to the designer-goth decor.
01/01/00
Everything here, from the opening titles to the closing credits (themselves liberally filched from Seven), is too much.
01/01/00
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01/30/03
A misguided attempt to sanitize a concept whose most distinctive trait is its darkness.
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Latest News for Spawn
August 22, 2007:
Todd McFarlane, New Wizard of Oz
According to Variety, Todd McFarlane (creator of Spawn) will be working with screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence) to produce what's being called "a revisionist take"... More...
July 06, 2007:
"Bat" Bits: "Dark Knight" Casting, Justice League, and ... Spawn?
Man oh man, "The Dark Knight" just keeps sounding cooler and cooler -- new castmembers, set reports, a casting call and a potential cross-over flick? More...
June 04, 2007:
Todd McFarlane Funding a New "Spawn" Movie?
Apparently "Spawn" creator Todd McFarlane was none too thrilled with the adaptation that New Line released a few years back, and now it looks like he might be... More...
April 12, 2006:
Old School "Wicked City" Makes a Comeback
Classic Japanese manga novel Wicked City is about to be adapted into a live-action, English-language action flick, says Variety. Only ... I think it's being made in Germany. More...
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