Terrible? I get that its not everyone's cup of tea, but this movie has an interesting story, characters that are memorable to some degree, and the jokes and side characters aren't insufferable. It's definitely not a rip off of Tim Burton, and has its own style that I've grown to love since I saw it when I was a kid. Sure, its a bit dated, but its a decent watch.
Agreed. I remember reading the book before watching the movie. I liked it so much, I got the dvd, and I'd spend my time rewatching the movie. I even watched it while listening to the commentary.
Same, got it as a gift from my nana when I was a child and always watched it. So, I got a soft spot for it still but it's absolutely interesting seeing the flaws it has TvT
@supar2386 Oh totally. seeing a movie you love, accepting its flaws, and still loving it is a sign that even if a movie is somewhat bad but can still be enjoyed! Much like Eight Crazy Nights with me and my mom
@@niraythedemonking5518Oh for sure! Two of my favorite movies as a kid were Happily Never After and Home on the Range, both have their flaws but I still liked them even so.
I wouldn't exactly call it a rip off, it was meant to be a parody of horror themed movies, with the twist being that the usually dim witted assistant is actually smarter than the scientists.
I never watched it, but knew it existed. All i can say is i fucking LOVE LOVE LOVEEE the art design!! I like the outdated early 2000's ps2 game feel it has, i love some of the character designs do muchhh
I think it’s a bit unfair to say this is a Tim-Burton rip off. Lots of shows that adopted dark and twisted vibes while also being Aimed at children adopted this style, with the sharp edges and exsagerated perportions. Invader zim, growing up creepy, coraline, and plenty of others. It’s kind of like saying that puss and boots and the last wish and tmnt mutant mayhem are spider verse rip offs
I was one of those kids who watched Igor, I have very very faint memories of it and realized that it came from Igor after trying to figure where exactly those memories came from. I don't think it's too bad honestly and I liked the designs throughout the movie!
To be honest I thought i dream up this movie. But know I know it’s real I want to watch it again it is my favorite along with all those 2000s movies that didn’t get enough praise they deserve like turtles tails one and two And foodfight. Idk fight me! (lol I’m just joking.. about the fight part)
I am so proud of the comments. I enjoyed this film, but I didn’t know if anyone remembered it, but seeing everyone say they also enjoy it makes me happy
You know what ? I never dislike a video, because I think it's disrespectful, but I'm so outraeged by the insult made to that film I'm going to dislike it. Seriously, it's not perfect, I get the artstyle is not up to the taste of everybody, I get the story could be more subtile or could do a better work at the environnement / lore building since it seemed like it told the lore more than it showed it, but still, this movie was great ! You have to put it in the context of when it was created, and the artstyle is not looking like Tim Burton at all ! Tim Burton has grotesque forme yes, but the characters are overall livid, thin, skeleton-like, delicate, timid and akward. Here they are mostly grotesque, absurd and have strong personnalities, the best characters being Igor, Violet, Dr Schadenfreud and the king. It feels like a psychonaut or a PS3 edgy horror game for a niche audience. I think it's honestly very creative, not like the Addams animated movie which was a purge. Look at the main female lead for example. She's a corpse yes, just like the blue girl in Corpse and Bride. In Tim Burton, even the blue corpse girl is pretty, she is delicate, dreamy, beautiful even tho she is dead. She definitely fits in society standards if we forget her decaying body. Here, Violet is huge, diformed, grotesque and even considered ugly by some characters. Still, even tho Igor is quite a dick at first (which makes him a victim of society and an abuser towards his creation which makes him a complexe character and not just a good/bad guy), he learns to see that she is beautiful the way she is, and that even tho she was "made for violence" (mostly by him, but Igor is like an allegory of the society inputing stupid standards because of looks), she is not like that, and can be lovable. I would get tho that it has inspirations yes, but mostly because it's a parody of animated movies in general, I don't consider it plagiat, more like an obvious reference for a joke purpose most of the time. We can see how it's almost avant-garde to put this arstyle for children, the thematic of mass genocide, suicide as well as brainwashing. Everything was original, unique for its time period and overall funny even if it's not a master piece. I find this video really insulting, really, even tho I understand it's mostly for clickbait :(
Definitely agree. I like Tim Burton but it misses the charm I find when I read books of Mathias Malzieu and I think his one book wasn't that greatly adapted like it could've be. That this movie was a book don't suprised me much. Very complex characters and a dark society world they live in, but a kinda poetic way to portray it is very rare to see a good movie of. Perhaps I'm biased for movies like this but animation is a lot of work and adapt heavier stories is difficult. I really still love the style of Tim Burton movies but if they wouldn't have the money and time for stop motion, the look and the songs, would we really love them? Are his stories that complex or is it the looks we really appreciate? I love books and movies others wouldn't like because I see the characters and the complexity there is. Or they try to portray. But on TH-cam you haven't much of those people who can appreciate exactly this. Rants and Negativity sells and that's a shame.
The last joke is even funnier when you know they wanted to have one of the blind orphans fall off the stage but were told they couldn't do that, so they just went with one getting turned around lol
Yes, there’s lots of clips of the name being pronounced that way in the video, I have no idea how Dazz missed it, unless he mispronounced it on purpose as engagement bait
It's a regional thing, depending on where you are is how you pronounce the name and I'd doubt that it's an easy habit to break for reviewing a movie with a character as popular as Igor
@believeinmatter he was still raised to pronounce it Eye-gore all his life and again, one movie is probably not changing the way he pronounces something, it's like saying you're pronouncing "Van Gogh" wrong because British people pronounce it "Van Goff" and vice versa. It's a regional pronunciation. Sometimes it's pronounced "Eee-gore" Sometimes it's pronounced "Eye-gore". There is no right or wrong way to pronounce it. That's the logic I'm coming from.
Tbh I liked the character designs The character designs that really stuck out to me it this movie were Dr. Glickenstine and that Mayor dude (does he have a name?) I liked the sort of insect character designs Dr.Glickenstine’s head from the back kind of looks like a flea, the spindly white hairs on it’s sides looking like the legs mid-leap And then the Mayor who’s body shape, and outfit kind of resembles a silverfish These can fit with the sort of decayed and dark, gloomy air of the movie Oh yeah and the fly guy I just remembered him while typing this out.
I feel like this movie doesn't really have a tim burton vibe, like there's elements of it ... But it's more along the lines of a independent TH-cam animation. (The ones with a dark athletic and has puppet esc animation. But not stop motion)
How the hell are you going to make a whole review where you keep mispronouncing the main character’s name and still include clips of the name being spoken? Are you doing a bit?
Another claim of a "rip-off" but I feel that the style of Igor (at least when it comes to character design) can stand on its own as its own thing. A lot of these characters are unique, but if anything, give more of a Psychonauts vibe over Tim Burton imo. I haven't watched this movie since I was a kid, maybe I should watch this again!
I disagree with it being a Tim Burton rip off given Burton is heavily influenced by early German cinema, surrealism, gothic aesthetics. I find the character design of Igor really cute. The world building is interesting. I do think, like so many post-Aladdin, animated films they use famous actors rather than actual voice actors. Edit, it’s like a gothic, cyber punk, robots movie (a criminally underrated film)
I agree a ton with your comment! Never saw it as a Tim Burton rip-off, just a similar aesthetic. But I did grow up watching this a lot so maybe it's just bias.
@@lifeisadrag7705I always thought Glickenstein, Shadenfreud, Jacklyn, and King Malbert respectively were like Temu versions of Loboto, Sasha, Milla, and Oleander (not in a bad way though, I love them)
Same here...I LOVED this movie as a kid (I still do) and just the way the characters were animated (Which for 2008 I dont think is bad at all), and in terms of story...I thought was so fun to watch
I like this movie :( and not everything is a rip-off of everything. That's like saying The Owl House is a rip-off of Amphibia because they use similar art styles Xp. Bad video
Terrible take this movie was camp and fun and entertaining. Plus…really weird of you to call any gothic-style movie a Tim Burton rip off. Would coraline, one of the most popular and successful gothic children’s movie, be a Tim Burton rip off? 💀
Lowkey ngl you fell off hard it seems like you’re trying to be aggressively negative about everything you review. Like this whole video was just you dogging on a pretty fun, jovial movie. You’ve been doing this a lot recently? Like all your nitpicks about the most recent episode of the digital circus? You actively denied the whole plot point of kinger becoming more lucid and confused it for him just “suddenly rambling the whole episode” as if that wasn’t the point that he was beginning to start to remember things, thus telling them to the audience and the characters around him. Now, it seems like in this video specifically you just….didn’t…care. About the movie you were reviewing. (I mean you did continuously pronounce it “eye-gore” instead of “eee-gore” like it’s said 3829292 times in the movie) but what I mean is that you were so quick to dismiss it as a shrek-Tim Burton movie rip-off instead of trying to look at it from a positive perspective. Being animated in 3d and having your plot be a spin on some kind of fairytale or classic story doesn’t automatically make a movie a “shrek ripoff” and having a dark, steampunk gothy aesthetic for a 3d animated movie also doesn’t make it a Tim Burton ripoff.
This guy tries too hard. He completely misses the plot and messages of "bad" films or series he reviews. Some of his videos are good, a LOT are just... him being very obnoxious. Not only that but this whole bit of Igor being a Tim Burton ripoff is the icing on the cake, because it isn't, it's genuinely unique and fits well as its own artstyle.
now i enjoy videos on bad media, like actually shitty ripoffs, the asylum type shit that saberspark reviewed. but this shit is just annoying. calling this a ripoff when it's not is ridiculous
@pencerism If you want a channel that actively finds garbage to review....Possum Reviews. Most movies he reviews make even the worst Razz has reviewed, look like blockbusters. 😂 Ratatoing looks better than some of them imo.
It’s weird to claim Igor was copying some of these movies that happened years later… like for example Toy Story 3 came out 2 years after, so with that logic pixar was “copying” Igor’s incinerator scene
"Terrible" is fitting only for this review, like oh my god... How can someone be so mean spirited to a 2008 tiny studio movie. This entire review feels like a delayed April Fools joke. -"It rips off Tim Burton" yeah yeah, shut up. Anything remotely gothic isn't "ripping Tim Burton". It's like saying "oh wow look how Megamind ripped off Despicable Me, an Evil supervillain... turns good??? how original" -The world of Malaria is a crapsack hellhole and has been for years. This is why everyone is bad and I can't fathom why you overlook that completely. This is why Igor wants Eva to be evil. Yet they both fail miserably because 1) Igor has been beaten down so much, he can't bring himself to be bad to others and 2) Eva was _just_ born. This is why Eva and Igor are weird here: because they're relatively nicer than the average Malarian. This is why the bad guy reveals his evil plan to Igor instantly: he expects him to follow through with it because he's supposed to be evil, openly evil. EVERYONE is in Malaria! -Comparing Igor to current behemoths like Wall-E or Kung Fu Panda, or future movies that came out years later is downright unfair. Would anyone call the latest TMNT a "Spiderverse ripoff" because of its style? You'd have to be brain-dead. Would anyone compare Mars Attack and Alien because they're both live action movies with aliens, and rip on the former because the effects look dumb? No, obviously not. -You did not analyse any of the movie's element or plotpoints, instead opting to dismiss _anything_ the movie tried as a "[insert mainstream movie] rip off" for a quick gag, rushing through it as quickly as possible to fit in the 30 mins mark. "Oh wow the weird monsters sidekicks look like monsters vs aliens" Maybe, just maybe, it's because they're monsters?? "Oh wow they're in an incinerator like in Toy Story. How original." Yeah, 2 years BEFORE Toy Story 3 came out. And when you couldn't find some reference to riff of off, it's "ohh it's boring played out trope" despite the fact that is a 2008 movie, made for kids, with a dark and gloomy atmosphere, when the norm is light-hearted comedy with talking animals. Do you know how many gloomy animated movies there were back then? Maybe 4-5 at most, and they weren't as popular as wall-e or kung fu panda either. -As a last note, the pacing of the video is horribly rushed and snappy. I felt like I was gonna have a stroke every minute. The only, possibly the only glaring flaw of the movie, would be the voice acting. It feels like the English dub isn't good, although you nitpicking one (1) line of Dr Lickenstein to justify calling the entire performance bad is bad faith. Personally, I watched the movie in my native tongue (French) and the actors have much more fitting voices and deliveries. This isn't surprising since they picked proper voice actors for that dub, instead of celebrities.
I loved this movie as a kid and still do. I don't believe it's a Tim Burton knock off at all, just because a movie has a creepy and odd style doesn't mean it's automatically Tim's style. I do love Dazz's videos but gotta agree to disagree on this one.
personally, I feel like this is one of those movies that deserves more love. Like hoodwink for example. awful animations and designs, but goddamn the story is funny and good!
Im suprised he didn't insult the movie for stealing the look of the mad scientist from nightmare before Christmas, the mad scientist in both movies look more alike than the king/mayor
Your review is so bad it's generally giving me an aneurysm It feels like the negativity is being forced for views Yeah the movie is not the best but it's not as bad as what you're trying to make it out to be keyword trying. and every time you do try the bring up a point like show footage a kind of feels like the point falls flat as the footage proves you wrong. Normally your reviews are pretty good but this one's just aggravating. This review could have easily been of how a studio used to be decent before they got corporate bad. Also most of its jokes that are made extremely obvious that are jokes somehow is able to pass by you which is very disappointing.
Igor was such a pleasant movie for me when I was a kid, I've rewatched it recently and tbh its much better than a lot of the stuff coming out today, it holds up imo... AND IM SO GLAD I'M NOT ALONE IN ENJOYING THE MOVIE STILL!!
The more I watch this movie, the more I grow to appreciate it. The humor is freaking insane, the characters are lovable, the setting and character designs are charming, and the soundtrack is pretty good for the most part. It's a little weird how Igor fell in love with what was essentially his daughter, but I'm willing to overlook that because that was clearly not the intent.
When I was 5, I got into a horrible rappelling accident that hospitalized me. After my second surgery, the doctors offered to put a movie on for me, and I asked for Igor by name. I love this movie lol
You know what I’m tired of people calling ripoff of “ Tim Burton “ and “ despicable me “ personally I think even if you dislike the the movie it it still has unique art style all its own Just my thoughts
I actually hated this movie as a kid but your video made me appreciate it a little more, particularly the style. I remember rewatching this a couple times on DVD and the only part I liked was the intro music, I'd keep rewinding and playing it back. I did think this had something to do with Hunchback Of Notre Dame though.
Terrible is a huge stretch, like this whole entire video. Igor was incredibly enjoyable to watch as a child, and I still look back on it fondly. Also calling it a Tim Burton rip off is just tacky in my opinion.
I remember this movie from my childhood, but back then, I didn’t realize it was a full movie. As a kid, I thought Igor was just a short film they showed at the end of movies or DVDs for some reason, lol. It’s not the weirdest movie I watched as a kid-I enjoyed Frankenweenie and the series Ruby Gloom. But the character designs, especially the rabbit, really stood out to me more than the actual plot. It definitely could have been better with a different direction or lead.
Oof bad take this time! This movie is pretty darn good and is a unique take on some old themes! Also who doesn’t know that Igor is a Frankenstein reference? That’s why he does “the Igor voice” Also the animation is pretty darn good!
27:37 aw I actually really liked that part of the movie :( I thought it was strangely beautiful, with presenting Eva’s inner turmoil, as well as direct foreshadowing to the storm-cloud machine being destroyed shortly after. It was a very creative approach imo and it stuck with me as an artist and storyteller
Take a shot when he says "Eye-gor" instead of "Eee-gor"... I remember being given a DVD of this film when I was a kid. This movie wasn't THAT terrible.
I don't normally click on your videos cause I usually hate your takes. I can't tell if you're doing the Nostalgia Critic or Cinema Sins thing and playing a character or if you actually believe what you say... But either way I abhor this video without even wanting merely from the comments. Not only are you incorrectly calling this a ripoff but from the comments you didn't even bother pronouncing the min characters name right... Probably going to watch the vid and immediately go pay to rent the movie because I'm certainly going to need a palette cleanser after this one.
3:13 - That's pretty much how Igors work in Perry Pratchett's novels and he was very close to Neil Gaiman who in turn wrote a little known book named Coraline whose movie animation style keeps getting confused with Tim Burton's work which is also the animation style this movie tries to copy! The conspiracy runs so deep, it's unbelievable!
Nah…I personally loved this movie and still do. I personally remember this being around the time I discovered the nostalgia critic. I gained a liking to watch directors commentary of various films I had on DVD so this movie kind of really changed me in elementary school I mean it paved the way for me getting straight A’s and having a more academic interest in media and art so yeah😅
I used to have a crush on the villain lady and the Steve Buscemi rabbit as a child and looking back, I'm questioning my interests 😭 and also questioning why it took me so long to realize I'm queer when I also thought Eva's voice was cute, as well.
I though this film was made by Vanguard Animation. The director moved to DreamWorks on making B.O.O. in the Redwood City studio, PDI (Pacific Data Images), but in 2015, PDI shut down and B.O.O. cancelled and now the director made The Emoji Movie for Sony Pictures Animation.
1 issue I have with the movie is the suicide jokes in the beginning I wish we gotten more development if the bunny character going from self hurting to fashion designer
honestly even as a kid it was kinda mid, but it certainly had at least some charm. that and a few of the jokes still make me cackle even to this day. kinda spoiler "We're all gonna die... Except you!" "Oh yeah" **proceeds to bite into high load wiring** "oh great, just when i decided i want to live" "Wish you weren't there, this card teleports your mortal enemy to you so that you may kill him or her in person... call me old fashioned but what happened to the cards that just blew your head off" *one minute later "happy mother's day..." **BOOM**
Genuinely this feels entirely too harsh. For the low budget, the characters and animation are actually pretty well done in my opinion. Its a really charming movie with some pretty funny jokes if you're not watching with the intent to criticize everything. I definitely recommend this movie to anyone that thinks it looks interesting. Its dated, and has flaws for sure, but its FAR from a terrible movie.
I'm so happy to see in the comments people saying they liked this movie and defending it from the accusation of Tim Burton rip off. That whole intro section had me like "wut. . ." Lol. I very clearly remember this movie being liked by a wide many and NOT flying under the radar. The blind children singing i can see clearly at the end literally became a MEME that got spread around at one point. You could practically almost consider Igor a semi cult classic at this point even if the movie itself isn't the greatest. Edit: i just finished the video and ngl. . . A good few parts felt like they boiled down to "i seen this before therefore it is trash and horribly done". I'm not saying the movie is perfect, because it definitely isn't. But but i gotta agree with what I've seen one or two others say. . . It feels like you are intentionally hating it just to hate it without having much of a genuine reason.
I actually like this movie (in a guilty pleasure kinda way) but it always bugged me that Igor made Eva and then they fall in love? I mean... if anything should they have a father daughter relationship? Feels kinda... icky.
Meh. I mean, I guess I can understand where you're coming from, but at the same time Eva isn't a kid nor a kid-minded adult (despite being "born" a few days prior). She's supposed to be a smart, adult-minded adult. Igor starts to she her as this and her own person, instead of looking down on her as "his creation" or "just a monster". Plus the brainwashing probably helped Eva look for and fantasize romance, since romantic dramas are associated with the ideal actress.
Intreasting thing: the idea of "Igors" being a group of beings that serve mad scientists is not unique to them. It was actually used in Terry Prachet's Discoworld before this movie existed.
I originally subscribed to you years ago for two reasons: your self-deprecating signoff and that fact that I *didn't* share your opinions on films. I liked listening to your reasons for liking movies I didn't like and your critiques of movies I did like. It was interesting to hear your genuine thoughts. But like a lot of people have said, you don't really do genuine anymore. You've fallen into the camp that complaining is content, and it's saddening. I understand that clickbait titles feel like a necessary evil, but the negativity for negativity's sake has gotten too old for me. I hope you remember why you started your channel in the first place, and maybe I'll remember to re-subscribe.
First movie I recall just having a huge list of celebrity voices as a part of the ads. I worked concession at a movie theater when it came out and the lobby had a huge cardboard advertisement featuring Igor, the brain, and the rabbit. They took up half of the display, while the list of celebrities took over the second half.
I remember watching Igor years ago and being happily surprised by it! The angular art style's aged well compared to other CG films of the 2000s I've seen that go for a more "Pixar" looking vibe, but ends up feeling too generic and samey from other CG films. I remember also listening to the DVD's director commentary and it said that each scientist is given an animal motif (John Cleese's character is a crocodile, the Mayor moves like a roach, etc) which I think was a creative animation acting choice.
For some reason, they made a card series based off this movie and I got a one of one card and I looked up how much it goes for from other one of ones from that series. It’s like five bucks lol
I remember watching the movie with my aunt as a kid. I have very fond memories around it. Is it a good movie? Ehh..... But, I still love it dearly for the memories attached.
Not exactly keeping up with Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda 1 from the same year... Did you see this movie at the time?
Thank you for blessing us with your videos lol
No because i think i wasn’t even born yet…
I was 4 when it came out and we were poor so.... I didn't. I saw Wall-E and Kung Fu Panda 1 because my father wrote them on DVD or how it is called
Why do you keep intentionally mispronouncing Igor? Is it a joke or something? Or r u serious bro.
Yeah I watched it when it came out and I vaguely remember it
Terrible? I get that its not everyone's cup of tea, but this movie has an interesting story, characters that are memorable to some degree, and the jokes and side characters aren't insufferable. It's definitely not a rip off of Tim Burton, and has its own style that I've grown to love since I saw it when I was a kid. Sure, its a bit dated, but its a decent watch.
Dazz reviews only sees extremes
He apparently can't just call something mid
He just needs to stop watching movie through a "modern audience" lense
Agreed. I remember reading the book before watching the movie. I liked it so much, I got the dvd, and I'd spend my time rewatching the movie. I even watched it while listening to the commentary.
@@MCKing441 agreed
I agree I love it
See i have no problem with Igor, I loved this film growing up! But I can definitely see where faults can be brought to light
Same, got it as a gift from my nana when I was a child and always watched it. So, I got a soft spot for it still but it's absolutely interesting seeing the flaws it has TvT
Yeah
@supar2386 Oh totally. seeing a movie you love, accepting its flaws, and still loving it is a sign that even if a movie is somewhat bad but can still be enjoyed! Much like Eight Crazy Nights with me and my mom
I feel like I can be in this area of how I like something.
@@niraythedemonking5518Oh for sure! Two of my favorite movies as a kid were Happily Never After and Home on the Range, both have their flaws but I still liked them even so.
I wouldn't exactly call it a rip off, it was meant to be a parody of horror themed movies, with the twist being that the usually dim witted assistant is actually smarter than the scientists.
YOU CAN'T DISS MY IGOR LIKE THIS! 😤😤😤
MINE EITHER
This is Basically how we technically got Hazbin Hotel
@@MineKurtMininer Hazbin Hotel sucks, It's nothing more than a decorated bag full of trash.
@@MineKurtMininerdont ever compare hazbin hotel to any movie, not even the megamind sequel.
@@MineKurtMininer Hazbin Hotel can go shit itself
@@MineKurtMininer that poorly written slop that has Keith David for some reason that Jeff bezo's agreed with but it became a mistake?
Wait until dazz realizes that this one is a cult classic and hes gonna have an army of people telling him he's wrong for this one lmfao.
I'm so happy seeing people defend this movie
Lol true
I never watched it, but knew it existed.
All i can say is i fucking LOVE LOVE LOVEEE the art design!! I like the outdated early 2000's ps2 game feel it has, i love some of the character designs do muchhh
I unsubbed for this
Fuck Dazz for this big time
@@Qwerty-wk3jy You should give it a try. I think you won't be disappointed if you have an open mind.
I think it’s a bit unfair to say this is a Tim-Burton rip off. Lots of shows that adopted dark and twisted vibes while also being Aimed at children adopted this style, with the sharp edges and exsagerated perportions. Invader zim, growing up creepy, coraline, and plenty of others. It’s kind of like saying that puss and boots and the last wish and tmnt mutant mayhem are spider verse rip offs
I was one of those kids who watched Igor, I have very very faint memories of it and realized that it came from Igor after trying to figure where exactly those memories came from. I don't think it's too bad honestly and I liked the designs throughout the movie!
Same. Igor was the shit. And so was Eva. He has quite the balls to build someone like her.
To be honest I thought i dream up this movie. But know I know it’s real I want to watch it again it is my favorite along with all those 2000s movies that didn’t get enough praise they deserve like turtles tails one and two
And foodfight. Idk fight me! (lol I’m just joking.. about the fight part)
My biggest memory of Igor was the ending scene with the blind kids signing
@@umbrellaghost5927 to be honest those blind kids were the cutest. And innocent
@@umbrellaghost5927 I also like the music in it. it’s not something you hear normally now
PUT RESPECT ON MY BOY IGORS NAME
I am so proud of the comments. I enjoyed this film, but I didn’t know if anyone remembered it, but seeing everyone say they also enjoy it makes me happy
Igor is an underrated classic.
You know what ? I never dislike a video, because I think it's disrespectful, but I'm so outraeged by the insult made to that film I'm going to dislike it.
Seriously, it's not perfect, I get the artstyle is not up to the taste of everybody, I get the story could be more subtile or could do a better work at the environnement / lore building since it seemed like it told the lore more than it showed it, but still, this movie was great !
You have to put it in the context of when it was created, and the artstyle is not looking like Tim Burton at all ! Tim Burton has grotesque forme yes, but the characters are overall livid, thin, skeleton-like, delicate, timid and akward. Here they are mostly grotesque, absurd and have strong personnalities, the best characters being Igor, Violet, Dr Schadenfreud and the king. It feels like a psychonaut or a PS3 edgy horror game for a niche audience. I think it's honestly very creative, not like the Addams animated movie which was a purge.
Look at the main female lead for example. She's a corpse yes, just like the blue girl in Corpse and Bride. In Tim Burton, even the blue corpse girl is pretty, she is delicate, dreamy, beautiful even tho she is dead. She definitely fits in society standards if we forget her decaying body. Here, Violet is huge, diformed, grotesque and even considered ugly by some characters. Still, even tho Igor is quite a dick at first (which makes him a victim of society and an abuser towards his creation which makes him a complexe character and not just a good/bad guy), he learns to see that she is beautiful the way she is, and that even tho she was "made for violence" (mostly by him, but Igor is like an allegory of the society inputing stupid standards because of looks), she is not like that, and can be lovable.
I would get tho that it has inspirations yes, but mostly because it's a parody of animated movies in general, I don't consider it plagiat, more like an obvious reference for a joke purpose most of the time.
We can see how it's almost avant-garde to put this arstyle for children, the thematic of mass genocide, suicide as well as brainwashing. Everything was original, unique for its time period and overall funny even if it's not a master piece.
I find this video really insulting, really, even tho I understand it's mostly for clickbait :(
Definitely agree. I like Tim Burton but it misses the charm I find when I read books of Mathias Malzieu and I think his one book wasn't that greatly adapted like it could've be. That this movie was a book don't suprised me much. Very complex characters and a dark society world they live in, but a kinda poetic way to portray it is very rare to see a good movie of.
Perhaps I'm biased for movies like this but animation is a lot of work and adapt heavier stories is difficult.
I really still love the style of Tim Burton movies but if they wouldn't have the money and time for stop motion, the look and the songs, would we really love them?
Are his stories that complex or is it the looks we really appreciate?
I love books and movies others wouldn't like because I see the characters and the complexity there is. Or they try to portray.
But on TH-cam you haven't much of those people who can appreciate exactly this. Rants and Negativity sells and that's a shame.
It's pronounced “Eee-Gore” and not “eye-gore”!
Haha that was driving me nuts too 😂
You have an eye for pronunciation 😉
Lol as soon as I heard him pronounce it like that, i knew I wasn't gonna be the only one really annoyed by it.
@@claudespeed277 The funny thing is, some of the clips he showed, actually says Igor's name and he still pronounces it wrong!
@@johnvosh1986Im gonna need my nuts to drive me at this points
The last joke is even funnier when you know they wanted to have one of the blind orphans fall off the stage but were told they couldn't do that, so they just went with one getting turned around lol
Oh wow I didn't know that 😭😭
You say Tim Burton but honestly it looks more like Psychonauts to me.
Someone thinks the same!
Psychonauts is inspired by Tim Burton
@@malevolentghost5734 🦖🦖
agreed! the doctors in the two remind me of each other
"I've seen this a million times" You've also had 16 years to see it happen again to be fair
Isn’t it pronounced “Eee-Gore” and not “eye-gore” ? 🤔
Yes, there’s lots of clips of the name being pronounced that way in the video, I have no idea how Dazz missed it, unless he mispronounced it on purpose as engagement bait
It's a regional thing, depending on where you are is how you pronounce the name and I'd doubt that it's an easy habit to break for reviewing a movie with a character as popular as Igor
@@EmRose.ryeah, but the general rule with names is to pronounce the same way the individual does.
@@EmRose.r So based on your logic, he is pronouncing the name wrong. The movie cast is Americans, and they pronounce it as “eee-gore” in the film.
@believeinmatter he was still raised to pronounce it Eye-gore all his life and again, one movie is probably not changing the way he pronounces something, it's like saying you're pronouncing "Van Gogh" wrong because British people pronounce it "Van Goff" and vice versa. It's a regional pronunciation. Sometimes it's pronounced "Eee-gore" Sometimes it's pronounced "Eye-gore". There is no right or wrong way to pronounce it. That's the logic I'm coming from.
Tbh I liked the character designs
The character designs that really stuck out to me it this movie were Dr. Glickenstine and that Mayor dude (does he have a name?)
I liked the sort of insect character designs
Dr.Glickenstine’s head from the back kind of looks like a flea, the spindly white hairs on it’s sides looking like the legs mid-leap
And then the Mayor who’s body shape, and outfit kind of resembles a silverfish
These can fit with the sort of decayed and dark, gloomy air of the movie
Oh yeah and the fly guy I just remembered him while typing this out.
I thought the doctor's head looked like a potato with roots.
They also paved the way for Hazbin Hotel
I feel like this movie doesn't really have a tim burton vibe, like there's elements of it ... But it's more along the lines of a independent TH-cam animation. (The ones with a dark athletic and has puppet esc animation. But not stop motion)
How the hell are you going to make a whole review where you keep mispronouncing the main character’s name and still include clips of the name being spoken? Are you doing a bit?
Yeah, it’s a bit. You should watch Young Frankenstein :)
Terrible is a huge stretch. It has flaws yes. The pacing of this film gave me whiplash rewatching it. But I think this movie is still worth watching.
Another claim of a "rip-off" but I feel that the style of Igor (at least when it comes to character design) can stand on its own as its own thing. A lot of these characters are unique, but if anything, give more of a Psychonauts vibe over Tim Burton imo. I haven't watched this movie since I was a kid, maybe I should watch this again!
I disagree with it being a Tim Burton rip off given Burton is heavily influenced by early German cinema, surrealism, gothic aesthetics.
I find the character design of Igor really cute. The world building is interesting. I do think, like so many post-Aladdin, animated films they use famous actors rather than actual voice actors.
Edit, it’s like a gothic, cyber punk, robots movie (a criminally underrated film)
Ditto, it reminded me a lot of Psychonauts too in that aspect. Tim Burton didn't create this kind of artstyle and or the origin to all of it.
I agree a ton with your comment! Never saw it as a Tim Burton rip-off, just a similar aesthetic. But I did grow up watching this a lot so maybe it's just bias.
@@lifeisadrag7705I always thought Glickenstein, Shadenfreud, Jacklyn, and King Malbert respectively were like Temu versions of Loboto, Sasha, Milla, and Oleander (not in a bad way though, I love them)
@@lifeisadrag7705 FINALLY! someone agrees! I've been saying this for years, the 'ugly' models are the charm of it
Yeah, and he completely misses the point of the movie too. I think it’s completely lost on him.
I loved this movie growing up. Sure it's not the greatest, but it had it's own charm I found.
Same here...I LOVED this movie as a kid (I still do) and just the way the characters were animated (Which for 2008 I dont think is bad at all), and in terms of story...I thought was so fun to watch
same
What? I enjoyed this movie. 💀
Me too
Same
I love this movie when I was 6
Same. This was a core memory from my childhood ✨
I loved this movie when I was younger
I like this movie :( and not everything is a rip-off of everything. That's like saying The Owl House is a rip-off of Amphibia because they use similar art styles Xp. Bad video
They have similar art styles? They both look pretty different to me.
my god stop it! stop hating random opinions
Steve Buscemi Rabbit was 100% improving those lines. He also paved the way for TADC Jax tbh
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This is so real. I’d also like to add the rabbit from Doogal/The Magic Roundabout
Igor was actually my childhood favorite; i had very weird taste-
Oh my god someone used a semicolon right
Your ain’t the only one who had weird taste
No you didnt
@@mrcranberry_offical if they think they did they did who knows
Terrible take this movie was camp and fun and entertaining. Plus…really weird of you to call any gothic-style movie a Tim Burton rip off. Would coraline, one of the most popular and successful gothic children’s movie, be a Tim Burton rip off? 💀
also this was one of my comfort movies😭i won’t let you sully my favorite fever dream movie since hoodwinked
The female character designs remind me of the designs in Psychonauts, honestly.
Lowkey ngl you fell off hard it seems like you’re trying to be aggressively negative about everything you review. Like this whole video was just you dogging on a pretty fun, jovial movie. You’ve been doing this a lot recently? Like all your nitpicks about the most recent episode of the digital circus? You actively denied the whole plot point of kinger becoming more lucid and confused it for him just “suddenly rambling the whole episode” as if that wasn’t the point that he was beginning to start to remember things, thus telling them to the audience and the characters around him. Now, it seems like in this video specifically you just….didn’t…care. About the movie you were reviewing. (I mean you did continuously pronounce it “eye-gore” instead of “eee-gore” like it’s said 3829292 times in the movie) but what I mean is that you were so quick to dismiss it as a shrek-Tim Burton movie rip-off instead of trying to look at it from a positive perspective. Being animated in 3d and having your plot be a spin on some kind of fairytale or classic story doesn’t automatically make a movie a “shrek ripoff” and having a dark, steampunk gothy aesthetic for a 3d animated movie also doesn’t make it a Tim Burton ripoff.
This guy tries too hard. He completely misses the plot and messages of "bad" films or series he reviews. Some of his videos are good, a LOT are just... him being very obnoxious. Not only that but this whole bit of Igor being a Tim Burton ripoff is the icing on the cake, because it isn't, it's genuinely unique and fits well as its own artstyle.
now i enjoy videos on bad media, like actually shitty ripoffs, the asylum type shit that saberspark reviewed. but this shit is just annoying. calling this a ripoff when it's not is ridiculous
@pencerism If you want a channel that actively finds garbage to review....Possum Reviews. Most movies he reviews make even the worst Razz has reviewed, look like blockbusters. 😂 Ratatoing looks better than some of them imo.
It’s weird to claim Igor was copying some of these movies that happened years later… like for example Toy Story 3 came out 2 years after, so with that logic pixar was “copying” Igor’s incinerator scene
"Terrible" is fitting only for this review, like oh my god... How can someone be so mean spirited to a 2008 tiny studio movie. This entire review feels like a delayed April Fools joke.
-"It rips off Tim Burton" yeah yeah, shut up. Anything remotely gothic isn't "ripping Tim Burton". It's like saying "oh wow look how Megamind ripped off Despicable Me, an Evil supervillain... turns good??? how original"
-The world of Malaria is a crapsack hellhole and has been for years. This is why everyone is bad and I can't fathom why you overlook that completely.
This is why Igor wants Eva to be evil. Yet they both fail miserably because 1) Igor has been beaten down so much, he can't bring himself to be bad to others and 2) Eva was _just_ born.
This is why Eva and Igor are weird here: because they're relatively nicer than the average Malarian.
This is why the bad guy reveals his evil plan to Igor instantly: he expects him to follow through with it because he's supposed to be evil, openly evil. EVERYONE is in Malaria!
-Comparing Igor to current behemoths like Wall-E or Kung Fu Panda, or future movies that came out years later is downright unfair.
Would anyone call the latest TMNT a "Spiderverse ripoff" because of its style? You'd have to be brain-dead.
Would anyone compare Mars Attack and Alien because they're both live action movies with aliens, and rip on the former because the effects look dumb? No, obviously not.
-You did not analyse any of the movie's element or plotpoints, instead opting to dismiss _anything_ the movie tried as a "[insert mainstream movie] rip off" for a quick gag, rushing through it as quickly as possible to fit in the 30 mins mark.
"Oh wow the weird monsters sidekicks look like monsters vs aliens" Maybe, just maybe, it's because they're monsters??
"Oh wow they're in an incinerator like in Toy Story. How original." Yeah, 2 years BEFORE Toy Story 3 came out.
And when you couldn't find some reference to riff of off, it's "ohh it's boring played out trope" despite the fact that is a 2008 movie, made for kids, with a dark and gloomy atmosphere, when the norm is light-hearted comedy with talking animals.
Do you know how many gloomy animated movies there were back then? Maybe 4-5 at most, and they weren't as popular as wall-e or kung fu panda either.
-As a last note, the pacing of the video is horribly rushed and snappy. I felt like I was gonna have a stroke every minute.
The only, possibly the only glaring flaw of the movie, would be the voice acting. It feels like the English dub isn't good, although you nitpicking one (1) line of Dr Lickenstein to justify calling the entire performance bad is bad faith.
Personally, I watched the movie in my native tongue (French) and the actors have much more fitting voices and deliveries. This isn't surprising since they picked proper voice actors for that dub, instead of celebrities.
Oh my GOSSHHHH this was my first hyper fixation!!! I was drawing fanart of the characters when I was like 7!!
I love Igor. It had the guts to include a character whose main joke was ending himself in a kids movie.
Best character in the movie btw. And they actually use his immortality and regeneration for something in the climax.
I loved this movie as a kid and still do. I don't believe it's a Tim Burton knock off at all, just because a movie has a creepy and odd style doesn't mean it's automatically Tim's style. I do love Dazz's videos but gotta agree to disagree on this one.
personally, I feel like this is one of those movies that deserves more love. Like hoodwink for example. awful animations and designs, but goddamn the story is funny and good!
Always thought it was a German movie because of so many of our biggest stars involved and the bad animation. But it's definitely so much fun
Im suprised he didn't insult the movie for stealing the look of the mad scientist from nightmare before Christmas, the mad scientist in both movies look more alike than the king/mayor
Your review is so bad it's generally giving me an aneurysm
It feels like the negativity is being forced for views
Yeah the movie is not the best but it's not as bad as what you're trying to make it out to be keyword trying. and every time you do try the bring up a point like show footage a kind of feels like the point falls flat as the footage proves you wrong. Normally your reviews are pretty good but this one's just aggravating. This review could have easily been of how a studio used to be decent before they got corporate bad. Also most of its jokes that are made extremely obvious that are jokes somehow is able to pass by you which is very disappointing.
It’s time to unsubscribe
Igor was such a pleasant movie for me when I was a kid, I've rewatched it recently and tbh its much better than a lot of the stuff coming out today, it holds up imo... AND IM SO GLAD I'M NOT ALONE IN ENJOYING THE MOVIE STILL!!
The more I watch this movie, the more I grow to appreciate it. The humor is freaking insane, the characters are lovable, the setting and character designs are charming, and the soundtrack is pretty good for the most part. It's a little weird how Igor fell in love with what was essentially his daughter, but I'm willing to overlook that because that was clearly not the intent.
When I was 5, I got into a horrible rappelling accident that hospitalized me. After my second surgery, the doctors offered to put a movie on for me, and I asked for Igor by name. I love this movie lol
The trailer for this movie never played before WALL-E (my favorite movie of all time). I own a DVD of WALL-E and never saw the trailer in it.
I have to say this. Scamper (the rabbit) is the best character in the whole movie.
You know what I’m tired of people calling ripoff of “ Tim Burton “ and “ despicable me “ personally I think even if you dislike the the movie it it still has
unique art style all its own
Just my thoughts
I find this an underrated Halloween classic.
I enjoyed it enough as a kid and the rabbit who wants to die is a mood
Igor was actually good gem. 💎 I disagree with your statement. As a kid I love it for it standing out from Disney.
I actually hated this movie as a kid but your video made me appreciate it a little more, particularly the style. I remember rewatching this a couple times on DVD and the only part I liked was the intro music, I'd keep rewinding and playing it back. I did think this had something to do with Hunchback Of Notre Dame though.
terrible? i will not take this igor slander
granted i havent seen the movie since i was like 5 but i will NOT take this slander
the only thing i remember of this movie is me and my cousins mimicking the "IGOR! PULL THE SWITCH" over and over lmao
funny enough, this was one of my childhood movies.
how dare lil bro disrespect my homie igor
Terrible is a huge stretch, like this whole entire video. Igor was incredibly enjoyable to watch as a child, and I still look back on it fondly. Also calling it a Tim Burton rip off is just tacky in my opinion.
I remember this movie from my childhood, but back then, I didn’t realize it was a full movie. As a kid, I thought Igor was just a short film they showed at the end of movies or DVDs for some reason, lol. It’s not the weirdest movie I watched as a kid-I enjoyed Frankenweenie and the series Ruby Gloom. But the character designs, especially the rabbit, really stood out to me more than the actual plot. It definitely could have been better with a different direction or lead.
The fact that you pronounce it EYE-gore makes me believe you're unqualified to talk about this movie 😂
Oof bad take this time! This movie is pretty darn good and is a unique take on some old themes! Also who doesn’t know that Igor is a Frankenstein reference? That’s why he does “the Igor voice” Also the animation is pretty darn good!
Welp, here we go again
27:37 aw I actually really liked that part of the movie :( I thought it was strangely beautiful, with presenting Eva’s inner turmoil, as well as direct foreshadowing to the storm-cloud machine being destroyed shortly after. It was a very creative approach imo and it stuck with me as an artist and storyteller
How does one mispronounce the title/main character's name so many times while its said correctly in the movie?😭😭😭😭
I loved this film. I really wish more animated films would give us different art styles in this style.
I do not care what bro's argument is, This was a GOOD movie.
Take a shot when he says "Eye-gor" instead of "Eee-gor"...
I remember being given a DVD of this film when I was a kid. This movie wasn't THAT terrible.
I don't normally click on your videos cause I usually hate your takes. I can't tell if you're doing the Nostalgia Critic or Cinema Sins thing and playing a character or if you actually believe what you say... But either way I abhor this video without even wanting merely from the comments. Not only are you incorrectly calling this a ripoff but from the comments you didn't even bother pronouncing the min characters name right...
Probably going to watch the vid and immediately go pay to rent the movie because I'm certainly going to need a palette cleanser after this one.
3:13 - That's pretty much how Igors work in Perry Pratchett's novels and he was very close to Neil Gaiman who in turn wrote a little known book named Coraline whose movie animation style keeps getting confused with Tim Burton's work which is also the animation style this movie tries to copy! The conspiracy runs so deep, it's unbelievable!
Nah…I personally loved this movie and still do. I personally remember this being around the time I discovered the nostalgia critic. I gained a liking to watch directors commentary of various films I had on DVD so this movie kind of really changed me in elementary school I mean it paved the way for me getting straight A’s and having a more academic interest in media and art so yeah😅
I used to have a crush on the villain lady and the Steve Buscemi rabbit as a child and looking back, I'm questioning my interests 😭 and also questioning why it took me so long to realize I'm queer when I also thought Eva's voice was cute, as well.
I though this film was made by Vanguard Animation. The director moved to DreamWorks on making B.O.O. in the Redwood City studio, PDI (Pacific Data Images), but in 2015, PDI shut down and B.O.O. cancelled and now the director made The Emoji Movie for Sony Pictures Animation.
Igor made me get back to playing Monster Lab a fun wii game.
I have pretty big nostalgia for this movie
except for the blind orphans part right? RIGHT!?!?!
1 issue I have with the movie is the suicide jokes in the beginning I wish we gotten more development if the bunny character going from self hurting to fashion designer
Core memory unlocked!
Totally forgot about this movie - I used to love it! But I can definitely see its flaws now.
Oh God...I remember watching this as a kid that started my whole spiral down the Tim Burton and Creepy-pasta rabbit hole.....
God this hits home. 😶
honestly even as a kid it was kinda mid, but it certainly had at least some charm. that and a few of the jokes still make me cackle even to this day.
kinda spoiler
"We're all gonna die... Except you!" "Oh yeah" **proceeds to bite into high load wiring**
"oh great, just when i decided i want to live"
"Wish you weren't there, this card teleports your mortal enemy to you so that you may kill him or her in person... call me old fashioned but what happened to the cards that just blew your head off" *one minute later "happy mother's day..." **BOOM**
Genuinely this feels entirely too harsh. For the low budget, the characters and animation are actually pretty well done in my opinion. Its a really charming movie with some pretty funny jokes if you're not watching with the intent to criticize everything. I definitely recommend this movie to anyone that thinks it looks interesting. Its dated, and has flaws for sure, but its FAR from a terrible movie.
I loved this movie growing up, and still enjoy it today! It's a perfect spooky movie for halloween, but I get why it's not everyone's cup of tea 💖
@ 0:16 I remember this one and I remember liking it when I first watched it
Igor got prequel comics
why is left 4 dead's dark carnival playing in the background at 07:00
I'm so happy to see in the comments people saying they liked this movie and defending it from the accusation of Tim Burton rip off.
That whole intro section had me like "wut. . ." Lol. I very clearly remember this movie being liked by a wide many and NOT flying under the radar. The blind children singing i can see clearly at the end literally became a MEME that got spread around at one point. You could practically almost consider Igor a semi cult classic at this point even if the movie itself isn't the greatest.
Edit: i just finished the video and ngl. . . A good few parts felt like they boiled down to "i seen this before therefore it is trash and horribly done". I'm not saying the movie is perfect, because it definitely isn't. But but i gotta agree with what I've seen one or two others say. . . It feels like you are intentionally hating it just to hate it without having much of a genuine reason.
I actually like this movie (in a guilty pleasure kinda way) but it always bugged me that Igor made Eva and then they fall in love? I mean... if anything should they have a father daughter relationship? Feels kinda... icky.
You’ve never drawn your ideal partner?
Yeah me too, I ADORE this movie..but the fact they both fell in love just made me uncomfortable and annoyed
@@bellaNwonderlnd Hah! Omg that adds so many more levels of weird to it now that I think about it, like marrying a dakimakura
Meh. I mean, I guess I can understand where you're coming from, but at the same time Eva isn't a kid nor a kid-minded adult (despite being "born" a few days prior).
She's supposed to be a smart, adult-minded adult. Igor starts to she her as this and her own person, instead of looking down on her as "his creation" or "just a monster".
Plus the brainwashing probably helped Eva look for and fantasize romance, since romantic dramas are associated with the ideal actress.
i knew the comments would defend this move, i loved it as a kid 🖤
YOU TAKE THAT BACK
Intreasting thing: the idea of "Igors" being a group of beings that serve mad scientists is not unique to them. It was actually used in Terry Prachet's Discoworld before this movie existed.
@ 5:45 I always thought ‘Igor’ was pronounced ‘EE-gor‘ as opposed to to ‘I-gor‘
Can we stop billing Illumination it's starting to get old
I originally subscribed to you years ago for two reasons: your self-deprecating signoff and that fact that I *didn't* share your opinions on films. I liked listening to your reasons for liking movies I didn't like and your critiques of movies I did like. It was interesting to hear your genuine thoughts. But like a lot of people have said, you don't really do genuine anymore. You've fallen into the camp that complaining is content, and it's saddening. I understand that clickbait titles feel like a necessary evil, but the negativity for negativity's sake has gotten too old for me. I hope you remember why you started your channel in the first place, and maybe I'll remember to re-subscribe.
Why was there not a Hoodwinked 3? I'm guessing it has something to do with the TERRIBLE Emoji Movie?
Or the horrible, horrendous, dumb hoodwinked 2
i honestly really liked this one! watched it with friends and liked the main characters
Imagine having just "Create Life" being the pinnacle of science in this movie when Igor literally created immortality. Thats like....infinite life.
Igor is a good, yet underrated movie.
First movie I recall just having a huge list of celebrity voices as a part of the ads.
I worked concession at a movie theater when it came out and the lobby had a huge cardboard advertisement featuring Igor, the brain, and the rabbit. They took up half of the display, while the list of celebrities took over the second half.
i've been looking for the song at 4:45 for literal years someone PLEASE tell me what it's from
I remember watching Igor years ago and being happily surprised by it! The angular art style's aged well compared to other CG films of the 2000s I've seen that go for a more "Pixar" looking vibe, but ends up feeling too generic and samey from other CG films. I remember also listening to the DVD's director commentary and it said that each scientist is given an animal motif (John Cleese's character is a crocodile, the Mayor moves like a roach, etc) which I think was a creative animation acting choice.
For some reason, they made a card series based off this movie and I got a one of one card and I looked up how much it goes for from other one of ones from that series. It’s like five bucks lol
I mean give them credit, they have an interesting visual style and tone.
The only problem is that the movie overall is bad.
THANK YOU FOR NOT BEING MEAN!!
I'm so happy people are defending this movie in the comments
I remember watching the movie with my aunt as a kid. I have very fond memories around it. Is it a good movie? Ehh..... But, I still love it dearly for the memories attached.
YOU BETTER GET YOUR UKULELE AND APOLOGISE 😡
This movie is not nearly as bad as you paint it, and it's not a rip off