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

KL Drift, Tokyo Drift, and Lord of the Rings (?)

 

I wanna drift! I wanna drift! I wanna drift!

 

I always wanted to learn how to drift (watch the trailer and you’ll know why). In fact, I just learned how to drift in the Daytona USA 1 arcade game. A friend of mine taught me after losing several races to him. It’s quite easy; the secret is to know the map, you must know when to drift and when to just turn. In Daytona USA 1, the best map to practice drifting is the advanced map, then select manual transmission. When you’re about to turn shift to gear number 1 and turn the steering wheel towards the direction you want to turn. When you turn to that direction shift to 3^rd gear then to 4^th gear. Easy right?

 

But this post isn’t about drifting. It’s about KL drift. Ironically, KL drift reminds me more of Lord of the rings rather than Tokyo drift. No, the lead character isn’t a small hobbit and neither does he look anything close to Elijah Wood. The supporting character isn’t a fat hobbit either. He is actually a thin tall guy. The similarity lies in the story. The drifting part is actually just sugar coats to the story. I don’t want to be a spoiler but I’ll guess ill tell the story anyway (hey, you can chose not to read this blog entry yet, if your planning to watch the movie). The lead character in the story is guy named Zack, he wanted the drug syndicates to stop selling drugs in his town so he challenged the drug leader to a race around the city. If Zack loses, he gives up his car, but if he wins, the drug leader and his gang leaves town. But there is another parallel story happening. There is a conflict between Zack and his best friend Sham. Sham really likes Zack’s ex-girlfriend and she likes him too, but since Zack isn’t cool about it, Sham tried to push her away. Zack hated Sham because he thought that they were dating, but in reality Sham was really loyal friend. Even though Zack already beaten up and pushed Sham away many times, Sham would always be there for Zack when he needed him. There was even this one time when Sham risked his life to rescued Zack from being killed by the syndicates. During the last part of the scene, Zack won the race but the drug leader didn’t keep his promise. Instead he made Zack’s life so miserable; he killed one of Zack’s friends. At the very last part, the drug leader wanted to run over Zack with a speeding sports car, but Sham traded his life for Zack by pushing him out of the way. Until now I still don’t know if Sham is alive as the last scene ended with Sham in comma after being hit by a car.

 

Told you it was like Frodo and S(h)am, Frodo was a ring bearer tasked to destroy the ring in mount Mordor. Frodo had a faithful friend which is Sam, who even though he was pushed away many times and falsely accused, still remained loyal to him, even to the point of risking his own life to save Frodo.  

 

~ nobody