Let me tell you...
If you'd forgotten this magic piece of animated goodness then SHAME ON YOU! Tim Burton clearly hasn't... And nor have the good people of Warner Bros. who are currently planning a CGWHY remake.
It's well covered on other blogs, so I won't go into detail about plot and cast but know this... It's a great, great, GREAT way to spend a rainy afternoon and should even re-ignite the love of classic monster movies that Van Helsing and the recent Wolfman remake may have... Quelled slightly... Dive in and enjoy before Creature From The Black Lagoon gets 're-imagined' (or raped, as we like to call it) and the remake sullies the good memory of this little gem.
Also, you may find yourself curiously attracted to the red headed female lead... And she doesn't even get nekked Mr Zombie! That's quality horror themed animation, right there!
Moving on...
Or... 'That Movie Your Neighbour Kept Telling You Was Really Awesome But You Can't Really Understand All The Fuss'.
People, this movie was okay. Okay. Read that word again and think about it.
Okay.
I look forward to the South Park spoof and vaguely remember the film (I watched it last night...). I can only assume that everyone who had the shit scared out of them by this has never read a Shirley Jackson book or even bothered to watch that many supernatural movies.
My nads remained unmoved by this one... But I may come back to it for another view and enjoy it more.
Or I might watch...
Yep... 2012. A movie SO epic that I had to update the firmware on my Blu-Ray player just to NAVIGATE THE MENU SCREEN!
It was immense!
It was stupid!
It was the same action sequences repeated over and over (WHAT WILL JOHN CUSACK JUMP OVER NEXT?! AND WHICH VEHICLE WILL HE USE?! HOW MANY PLANES CAN OUTRUN AN EXPLOSION AFTER TAKING OFF FROM A CRUMBLING RUNWAY?!!!!!!!!!!!).
It then turned into a sort of watered down Battlestar Galactica... With Giraffes! And an Elephant hanging from a helicopter!!!
On the downside, it was as dumb as a bag of rubber cocks and (once again) we see that electing a black president is (according to Hollywood) a sure fire way to ensure the end of days (seriously, I know the studio's think the black president card is a great way to make the movie hit ALL the demographics but name one move where the black president isn't facing the end of the world or a nuclear crisis...). I can only assume that mankind stood any kind of chance in this movie because the man in question was... Well, a man. If it had been a black, female president then surely the world would just have combusted with no warning and we all would have died outright.
Great apocalypse guys... But maybe next time we can let a white president lead us all to our deaths? Not Bill Pullman though... He's a cool guy and probably would have saved the world. Some other white dude will do... Lord knows we've got plenty to choose from.
Still... I was drunk and did really enjoy this one.
Shame on me.
