I just saw this for the first time. The movie had good intentions and did work in certain areas. If you ever saw movies like the Gate a horror comedy B movie Kids film. This one is going for something similar but also wanting to be a over the top Troma film. Now if you dont know what Troma films are they are movies that have over the top stupid absurd plots that are way over the top. Now the basic set up here is that two kids brother and sister find a monster an use a device to control him.
The Review Movie itself has tonal problems when it starts off the movie plays like it will be a throw back to 8os Horror B movies with two kids controlling a monster. This plays mostly well until the second act then the film goes full cartoon and abandons all reality and tries to be a Troma type film. Problem here is the tone change catches you off guard and the movie picks an chooses what the characters will react to in a more realistic way instead of treating everything like a cartoon. Example the girl has a crush on random boy and has him turned by the monsters magic to only do what she wants to do. But in doing so hes transformed into mindless mutant creature and the little girl doesnt react at all. Hes then brought around town and nobody reacts to it. Later in the film Police show up and try to shoot the monster because of how he looks so the movie picks and chooses what the humans will react to out of the blue. Toward the second half of the film the mother and father become characters with plot lines out of nowhere like the dad being lazy which never gets resolved. The movie biggest problem is the script it felt like the director wanted to do multiple different types of film styles at once an combined them into one soup. Problem is the film feels random it jumps from feeling fairly normal B movie for the first half into being Wanna be Troma film in the second half then trying to be over the top Dark Comedy for the finale.
Bottom Line on the Movie This movie has massive tonal problems a better script could prolly have balanced all the different bending of film styles this one aint it. The biggest problem here is the script not the cast. Had the film simply picked one of these styles to be an done them for the movies duration it would have worked. The movie is to stupid cartoony to be good B movie Horror Comedy and its to safe to be a good over the top Troma Film. If being silly Troma movie was what the director wanted he should have went crazier with it and had the main little girl snorting Drugs off Strippers asses or something to be good so bad its good movie. Instead he wants the movie to play all factors well and it just does not work not with this script. All together this isnt terrible movie if you have love like me for silly 8os B movies this is still OK for the effects and some of the stupid humor being funny.
Final Rating 2 Stars out of 4 which equals about 6 out of 1o on IMDB Ratings. This was obvious time waster one off watch movie. I wouldnt watch again except maybe to see the bluray Special Features if I found the film for like 3 dollars or something. Good intentions with the movie but it simply didnt work with the script.
The Review Movie itself has tonal problems when it starts off the movie plays like it will be a throw back to 8os Horror B movies with two kids controlling a monster. This plays mostly well until the second act then the film goes full cartoon and abandons all reality and tries to be a Troma type film. Problem here is the tone change catches you off guard and the movie picks an chooses what the characters will react to in a more realistic way instead of treating everything like a cartoon. Example the girl has a crush on random boy and has him turned by the monsters magic to only do what she wants to do. But in doing so hes transformed into mindless mutant creature and the little girl doesnt react at all. Hes then brought around town and nobody reacts to it. Later in the film Police show up and try to shoot the monster because of how he looks so the movie picks and chooses what the humans will react to out of the blue. Toward the second half of the film the mother and father become characters with plot lines out of nowhere like the dad being lazy which never gets resolved. The movie biggest problem is the script it felt like the director wanted to do multiple different types of film styles at once an combined them into one soup. Problem is the film feels random it jumps from feeling fairly normal B movie for the first half into being Wanna be Troma film in the second half then trying to be over the top Dark Comedy for the finale.
Bottom Line on the Movie This movie has massive tonal problems a better script could prolly have balanced all the different bending of film styles this one aint it. The biggest problem here is the script not the cast. Had the film simply picked one of these styles to be an done them for the movies duration it would have worked. The movie is to stupid cartoony to be good B movie Horror Comedy and its to safe to be a good over the top Troma Film. If being silly Troma movie was what the director wanted he should have went crazier with it and had the main little girl snorting Drugs off Strippers asses or something to be good so bad its good movie. Instead he wants the movie to play all factors well and it just does not work not with this script. All together this isnt terrible movie if you have love like me for silly 8os B movies this is still OK for the effects and some of the stupid humor being funny.
Final Rating 2 Stars out of 4 which equals about 6 out of 1o on IMDB Ratings. This was obvious time waster one off watch movie. I wouldnt watch again except maybe to see the bluray Special Features if I found the film for like 3 dollars or something. Good intentions with the movie but it simply didnt work with the script.