Igor (2008)

williamsgwynfa [Highly rated reviewer] , 06/10/2008

this dvd is superb. It stars (the voices of) John Cleese, Eddie Izzard, Molly Shannon, Christian Slater, John Cusack and Steve Bescemi, Jennifer Coolidge, Arsenio Hall, Sean Hayes, Jay Leno and James Lipton.

The evil land of Malaria was once a happy place, until heavy storm clouds moved in one day and never left.

Malaria soon fell into despair, darkness and ruin, until King Malbert came up with a plan to bring prosperity back to the land. Every year, Malaria would hold an evil science fair, and the winner's invention would be used to extort huge sums of money from the rest of the world.

With this prestigous prize, mad scientists gained power, and it became customary that all hunchbacks be sent to Igor school, where they become experts in the art of 'yes master' and train to assist the scientists in their evil work.

One Igor, however, aspires to rise above the hunch on his back and win the science fair with his own invention.

The chance arises when his master is unexpectedly blown out of the picture. So Igor gets to work in creating the monster of his dreams, with the help of his two previous experiments that went slightly wrong -- Brain, an unintelligent brain in a jar, and Scamper, a suicidal but immortal bunny brought back from being road kill.

Igor's monster is huge and hideous. T

The problem is, that she turns out to be a good-hearted soul who dreams of being an actress.

Igor uses this desire against her by telling her that the science fair is an audition for a role, and that she must act evil and destructive to get the part.

Eva's kind nature soon opens Igor's eyes to the opposite side of evil, however, and when he later learns the truth about Malaria's storm clouds, he realizes that being the evil capital of the world is not all it's cracked up to be.

Igor is then determined to set things right... but can he?

watch the film to find out..............

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PaulaWestwood from Ashton-Under-Lyne [Highly rated reviewer] , 20/10/2008

In a year of superb animation (Bee Movie, Wall-E, Horton Hears a Hoo) it would take a mammoth effort to upstage what has gone before, and perhaps it is unfair to compare. To my knowledge Antony Leondis had only had a lead hand in directing the average Lilo & Stitch 2, this is a whole new ball game and it works. Every evil scientist has their unwitting sidekick, but what happens if the Professor suffers an untimely end at the hands of one of his inventions and it is left to Igor his sidekick (who actually has the brains and more than that a conscience !) to rustle something up to enter into the yearly Evil Science Fair. Though it isnt the best of the bunch this year it is nevertheless a huge step up for the director and is pretty well made funny and entertaining romp that should keep the little uns well entertained, definately worth a watch.

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