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Foodfight!
The evil Brand X joins a supermarket that becomes a city after closing time.
Release : | 2012 |
Rating : | 1.3 |
Studio : | Threshold Animation Studios, Threshold Entertainment, C47 Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Production Design, |
Cast : | Charlie Sheen Hilary Duff Eva Longoria Wayne Brady Christopher Lloyd |
Genre : | Adventure Animation Action Comedy Family |
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Really Surprised!
Please don't spend money on this.
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
Never seen anything better than this before. I honestly hope it gets a great rating.
There are times when animated films work. There are times when animated films don't work.This...doesn't "doesn't work", it never even got past blueprints or prototype design.This film is a convoluted mess, a monster, the worst animated film I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot. Nothing about it works. Especially the inappropriate imagery, fascistic symbolism, relentless consumerism, insulting the intelligence of the viewer, yada yada. I seriously thought that this was a very depraved adult animated film before I discovered that it was MARKETED FOR CHILDREN.Not only is it a waste of money and branding, it has perhaps the lowest grade animation I have seen. I've seen my fair share of bad animation, and this hits the bottom of the barrel.This film should be marketed with a warning: "This film contains elements that will drop your IQ by 100 points, and cause as much pain as a root canal."
I have a friend who views watching terrible films as a perfect social activity. This can be quite enjoyable at times, as many of the films we watch together provide numerous opportunities for MST3K-style commentary. A couple of years ago, I chose to watch Foodfight! with him while he was over my place. I had heard that this was one of the worst animated films ever made and I thought that it would be a source of much schadenfreude. After an awkward hour-and-a-half, I realized that I was mistaken - Threshold Entertainment has managed to produce a film that's so incompetent on so many levels that it's almost unwatchable.The most glaring flaw with the film is the animation. The computer animation in Foodfight! looks worse than animation made on a much lower budget 15 or 20 years before this film was released. The character models range from unappealing to horrifying and some of them are reused multiple times in the same shot, with crowds of people consisting of the same five or so character models repeated dozens of times. Apparently, the original assets for the film were stolen, forcing the film crew to recreate what was lost on a much lower budget, so they weren't entirely to blame for this aspect of the film's awfulness.Those involved in the film's creation don't get a similar pass for the writing. The plot is riddled with so many clichés that you could hang Dex's fedora on them. For example, Dex is the character who was once a detective but left the profession after the woman he loved disappeared, a stock protagonist so generic that even Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever included him. The humor is equally bland, consisting of fart jokes, bad puns, and sexual innuendos that seem rather inappropriate for a children's movie.A large part of the controversy surrounding the film's release was the rampant product placement. While I found the product placement a minor quibble compared to the film's other glaring flaws, I understand the concern - Foodfight! is ostensibly aimed at children, and they are more susceptible to being influenced by product placement. However, I found the greatest disappointment surrounding the inclusion of brand mascots, called "Ikes" in the film, is that they don't do much other than stand in the background of some shots. I was hoping to see Mr. Clean use his navy training to beat the villains senseless, but the only action scene involving the Ikes was a brief scene near the end, where they throw food at the Brand X soldiers.The real tragedy of Foodfight! is that it is not even "so bad it's good". Foodfight! could have easily been enjoyably bad, but it commits the cardinal sin of being both bad and bland. I could even see a version of Foodfight! that I would enjoy unironically - a move that embraced the absurdity of the premise and was written in a way that was more self-aware. Foodfight! was never going to be Citizen Kane, but it could have been Robocop - a movie that used its rather silly premise to deliver some clever social commentary. However, the version we got is neither of these things.
This movie is really really really bad, but trust me, I have seen worse. Anyway, FoodFight is about all of these brand mascots fighting against an evil brand called Brand X. The brand mascots are real, so watching this movie makes you feel like you are getting beaten to death by advertising! Also, the animation looks unfinished, as if this was the first draft before they released the movie. Sometimes, the characters also look 2D. This movie is beyond words bad, but I have seen worse. This movie isn't the worst. It's more like the 3rd worst movie.