Igor celebrates a defiantly adolescent and suitably caricatured vision of mortality with the potential to have adults and special young malcontents in stitches.
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01/15/09
Igor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:30
Rotten:55
Average Rating:4.8/10
Consensus: With an animation style that apes Tim Burton, and a slew of cultural references that aren't clear enough to reach the crowds, Igor's patched together antics make it hard to see who the film is trying to please.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jan 8, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $19,420,496
Synopsis: In a land of mad scientists and diabolical inventions, what do you do when you’re born with a hunch on your back? You become an Igor. A hilarious twist on the classic monster movie, "Igor"... [More]
Starring: John Cusack, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Jennifer Coolidge
Director: Tony Leondis
Reviews for Igor
Top CriticUltimately the film can only dream of having the magic, personality and charm of the Tim Burton efforts it so obviously plagiarises
10/06/08
Top CriticA fun time-killer for kids aged tween and up...
01/16/09
Top CriticIf you are the type that wishes filmmaker Tim Burton still put his name to funky animated monstrosities like The Nightmare Before Christmas, then Igor will fit the bill just nicely.
01/08/09
Top CriticWith a curly twist on the mad scientist concept, this subversively inventive animation bubbles over with originality and amusing dialogue.
12/19/08
Top CriticIt’s a strange, dark little film with suicidal rabbits and brains in jars, stunted heroes and Frankenstein-like objects of love.
12/19/08
Top CriticIgor sends up all sorts of cliches, but -- by degenerating into a mawkish romance and a boring race against time -- it also becomes one.
01/08/09
Top CriticIgor? No. More like Ibore.
09/19/08
Tim Burton, have you misplaced your sketchpad? Because I think Igor found it.
09/19/08
A blind children's chorus singing 'I Can See Clearly Now' is among the highlights of this otherwise forgettable animated feature.
09/21/08
I look forward to making it part of my regular Halloween movie viewing for many years to come.
10/18/08
Tepid stuff, with a plot so transparently predictable that even 5-year-olds who haven't been to the movies much will be saying, 'I've seen it.'
09/24/08
So bad it's scary.
09/18/08
Igor tries to spoof Mary Shelley just as Shrek did the Brothers Grimm, but something tells us this movie's charmless hero won't make an ogre-size impression on kid audiences. Call it a hunch.
09/17/08
A modest do-gooder trying to pretend that its not Cartoonland's most direct attack of the Bush administration.
09/19/08
for riffing so expertly on classic horror flicks, and for plumbing the depths of horror in the relentless perkiness of "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie, it deserves a medal
09/13/08
This dark-toned animation borrows its style from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride without adding much of its own to the macabre mayhem.
10/17/08
This is what happens when you combine THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS with SHREK. It should have been called DRECK!
10/06/08
It is not visually stimulating.
11/06/08
I just didn’t think there were anywhere close to enough laughs in this movie and that ultimately, as a comedy, is what it’s got to deliver.
11/06/08
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