Disaster!: The Movie
I guess the movie might be funnier if I was blitz out of my mind, but it's antics are so poorly done that I think that even that would be a stretch.
It's advertised as "It's hilarious claymation catastrophe in director Roy T. Wood's animated send-up of blockbuster sci-fi disaster films." Well "claymation catastrophe" pretty much sums it up. It's not that the animation is horrible it's just not that good. If the guys from Robot Chicken or South Park did the movie, then it would of made me piss my pants. At least they would have made the script work! A little like the Team America makers decided to save the budget by using wax puppets and use the saved cash for drugs. After watching the entirety of Disaster!, I wasn't surprised to find that director Wood, had made a previous animated short film called "Star Trak", which had the "Star Trek" crew traveling to help the Turds on Uranus.
The plot follows the Armageddon script and has some very recognizable scenes almost exactly taken from, it well, momentarily to change drastically and create humour this way and it works! If you like your puppet comedies tough, go and see this one. If you mind bad language and/or explicit themes and scenes, maybe reconsider ultimately it's Armageddon with puppets. Upon the discovery of a planetoid, yes they use planetoid...I guess they thought it was funnier than astoriod or what not...heading straight for Earth, which would surely destroy civilization as we know it upon impact. The government, working with the space agency known as ASSA...I can't control the laughter...sigh....hire on the services of Harry Bottoms, one of the world's leading volcano experts, to head up a mission into space to stop the planetoid, with assistance from other disaster specialists. Other various characters include, V.D. Johnson, Sandy Melons, and Donkey Dixon. I could go on but do I really need to?
FINAL THOUGHTS: 2/10
I don't want this review to come off the wrong way, I'm no prude. I find sex, poop and fart jokes as funny as most guys do, but as used here it would be like if American Pie had Jason Biggs Jizz into a Pie in every scene.
Labels: 2/10, Animation, Armageddon
