Pull Ze Switch!

I was totally surprised by this movie.

I thought this was another lame digital film like Happily Never After, but hey, this one was … soo geeky!

Let me share you my quick synopsis of Igor.

If you want a taste of Frankenstein and Mad Scientists, of monsters and musicals, of a gloomy but funny story, of Jaqueline and Heidi (yes that’s Jekkyl and Hyde for you), of a sudden feeling of Schadenfreude, of Annie the musicale and hypnotic machines, well you shouldn’t miss Igor.

Igor is the recently acclaimed comedy digital animated film about a life of an Igor (If you haven’t watched Frankenstein, Igor is the popular sidekick guy portrayed as an assistant of Dracula or Frankenstein). PULL ZE SWITCH!

(Spoilers below!)

Enter the town of Malaria, a town that has an everlasting dark cloud hovering above it. This dark cloud has hampered its industry. Because of this, the evil mayor of Malaria has organized the annual EVIL Science Fair gathering mad scientists who would invent evil inventions. Out of fear for their lives, the whole world would pay Malaria large sums of money so that the inventions would not lay havoc on them. This same money would be the prize of the Evil Science Fair. Now in this town, there are lots of Mad Scientists and each has their own Igor, assistants trained in the Igor School… and the first thing they learn in that school is that phrase they should always use in response to any mad scientist: “yezzz mastah!”

Now there’s this particular Igor who wanted to invent an evil invention. In fact he already invented several gizmos: two of those became his friends—Scamper the Existentialist Rabbit, and Brian (who actually came from a jar with a dead brain inside… Brian is a misspelling of ‘brain’). Igor wanted to say this to his master but the Mad Scientist would not believe him because Igors, they believe, can’t think. But while this Mad Scientist is testing his new invention… er the “Evil Lasagna” it exploded, leaving just an arm of the said scientist. Fearing for his life, Igor invented a long-awaited dream, a monster with life! Unfortunately so, his monster turned out to be … not evil, but EVA—an aspiring actress who couldn’t even hurt a fly. Now, an evil scientist named Dr. Schadenfreude (yeah, the infamous German word was turned into a name of a character in this film) was so jealous of Igor’s former master that he investigated and found out that there’s no Mad Scientist to be found. And worse, he found out Igor’s invention and wants to steal it… for the upcoming Science Fair.

(End Spoilers!)

I was really laughing so hard in the cinema while watching the whole film. I bet GEEKS made this movie… Now I will never see Annie the same way again. Haha.

The film ended with this saying: It is better to be a good nobody than an evil somebody! Now that’s what a GREAT movie is all about!

If you’re a geek, don’t miss this movie. It’s really really worth watching!

~resplend3nt