The reason Malbolgeia’s lips don’t move when he talks is actually because demons in the Spawn universe communicate through telepathy, so it’s cool they kept that detail in, but that doesn’t make it any better because they’d don’t explain it in the film
John Leguizamo is the last person alive who needs to apologize for that movie. His portrayal of the Clown was one of if not the best part of that movie, and it wasn't bad.
A much better one than the giant 3d monster in the movie for sure :D Unlike him, Malcom has charm and a cool personality. Heck, even his daughter is a better ruler of Hell than the malfunctioning puppet.
So an evil boss with a hot assistant and has a kink for creepy things and has pictures of explosions in his office...so...is this the office of Michael Bay?
I'm surprised the Nostalgia Critic didn't talk about how HUGE spawn was in the 90s. He had his own comic, action figures, trading cards, t-shirts, soundtrack, video games, hell even his own show on HBO. And keep in mind that Spawn wasn't from Marvel or DC. That was unheard of at the time.
Spawn's candle wasn't lit too but when it did, it was the brightest in the late 90s but by the 2000s, his hype died down. (I blame the movie's failure.) And the talk of a sequel went through such a long development since the 2000s for so long that it soon became a reboot but after how long it's been in development, it probably won't happen because now Spawn is "dead" to everyone these days.
Fun Fact: I just saw a 2022 interview with Michael Jai White. In the interview, he agreed that the film was bad, and offered an explanation for why it turned out like it did... White has said that the initial rough cut was a much better, darker and more complete movie, which was screened for an audience for feedback. The film got excellent feedback, so New Line gave the director full creative control over the film, assuming he would make it even better. However, the director (a former special effects supervisor) instead decided to use the movie as an effects showcase, and edited out most of the scenes of character development in order to make room for more VFX and action. White was supposedly shocked when he saw the premiere and realized most of the important plot and character scenes were gone, and had been replaced with loud, obnoxious special effects. White has also said that there are scenes in the movie that were completely fabricated through editing pre-existing footage and adding CGI to it. (Such as the scene where Spawn removes the heart monitor from Wynn's body... that scene was completely constructed in post from B-roll footage with added CGI and wasn't in the script. It was simply put in to throw in some more "state of the art" CGI.)
The HBO series was awesome, I stumbled across it one day on youtube and got so into it, the athmosphere, mature storyline and Keith Davids' legendary voice acting all made it for me
Keith David's voice is fucking hot. He should be Swayzak if he ever returns on Toonami (but in my lore, he's written with his New Zealander accent from the game, and it's his native Phobian accent. His human disguise is Afro-Kiwi.)
Sounds like Frank knew how bad this movie would be and belched his lines to sound as much like a Saturday morning cartoon villian and/or Dr. Claw, and cleared his voice long enough to ask for his paycheck and the time he wasted on crap like this.
"He turns into a giant pumpkin head which, according to 90's logic, means he can't talk anymore, he can just go...(makes growling sounds) ...and, of course, he also loses the personality we've seen throughout the rest of the movie." Me: Like The Bug from Men in Black.
In Toonami fanfics I've seen, Swayzak apparently can grow like so many Power Rangers villains (albeit I'm sure BoneSattelite intended it as a reference to Sark's final moments in Tron.) That just reminded me of it.
Critic is strangely right though with the effects. Spawn at 9:53 looks exactly like the pre-rendered Killer Instinct Gold characters, especially Glacius.
Well, as a fan of Spawn, altough this movie has some problems, I think they remained as loyal to the source material as they could, even today we don't see that as much...
I'm not an expert on Spawn, but aren't there a lot of deviations from the comic? Spawn basically doesn't have the 'memory loss', Sam & Twitch are just a cameo, Wynn is doing a different thing, no Mafia or Billy Kincaid, Chapel is replaced by Priest, etc
@@grim_2000, yeah, there are differences from the comic book, but for the most part, you see the charaacter is there, the essence was preserved! and the action figures base on the movie are AWESOME, BTW!
+Stefan B. That is just a stupid fucking joke. Not at all funny. Don't know how you got so many likes. You're not funny. But you do repeat jokes made time and time again. South Park did it better.
I had Spawn. I didn't know where he came from, so I always put him with my Spider-Man action figures from the movie because I knew he wasn't DC. Finally, in sixth grade, I saw the movie.
love the Sheen reference “I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.” Martin Sheen in 'Apocalypse Now' (1979)
In defense of the Violator not talking in monster form, he doesn't in the comics or HBO series either. However, he does communicate telepathically, which could have been awesome.
Can you tell me more about the comics? I've only really heard about it, and it looks pretty cool, like a hybrid between venom Spiderman and doctor strange.
@@philipgood5041 The comics are about redemption and what it means to be a hero. The art is very Venom Spider-man (which makes sense because McFarlane drew Venon Spider-man) and the story (while slow for the first 25-30 issues) is a great redemption story and hero arc. Spawn goes from gritty anti-hero to traditional hero over time. If you can get through the first 25-30 issues, it is a great series and easily one of the two best (i.e. only good) early Image comics. Be warned (this a legitimate trigger warning) that there are themes of domestic violence SPOILERS Al Simmons was not a good person in life like in the movie. Cyan is not his daughter in the comics, and in fact he hit Wanda before going on his last mission which caused her to miscarry. The story is about him acknowledging that he belonged in Hell and becoming a better person.
@@danielshimoda9246 hmm, if Will Smith Can play a homeless man who still has to take care of his son or if Jamie can Play a convincing blind man, I am sure he will be a good spawn too, though I will miss Keith David's voice of Spawn
Rick Sanchez the intergalactic Hellspawn But this movie? That's a new one for me! Probably because Batman and Robin and Barb Wire were released the same year...
11:48 “Red Skull?” “No, that’s a different comic company. I’m Bacon Skull!” XD 18:46 Funnily enough, the same guy who did the special effects of the Mask also did the special effects in this movie as well. Rewatching this review after Spawn’s confirmation for Mortal Kombat 11.
Or a ginger girls hair got nuked and then was genetically mutated with sausage rolls for the next scoopy doo movie. Scoopy doo meets spawn:yes we got sued by the world.
Or if Scrappy Doo from the 2002 Scooby Doo movie raped the original design for Movie Sonic mixed with X Men Origins: Wolverine’s Deadpool, I mean Deadpool’s lips were stitched shut, it would supposedly explain Malebolgia’s lips don’t move.
The funny thing is, in the comics they don't really tell you anything about the back story until a few issues in. It's very mysterious and you discover it all in flashbacks. In fact, it's pretty much like what they did with Deadpool. The movie just dumps it on you all at once, so it doesn't really work that well.
Zack Bloodworth In Deadpool (the movie) they start with Deadpool already in the suit, and then tell you how he got there in flashback. Which is similar to how they introduce Spawn in the comics, and should have done in the movie, but they didn't.
HOW?! What kind of brain damage did the awards show have when they saw this movie?! Didn't they see how awful Malebolgia (you know, that shitty-looking Devil whose name the Critic never mentions?) looked?!
Dakota Foote Yeah...I know that. I'm telling this to all the people who are unaware this. It's like going back in time and looking at 32-bit graphics. It may look like shit to this generation, but for me at that time it was mind blowing.
This was actually the fault of a bunch of CGI Bros who got fired, and forever banned, from Skywalker Ranch by Lucas. They literally tried using this movie as a demo reel for their “skills”. They even changed the final battle to CGI Hell in the middle of filming, with only 1/8th of the effects budget left, and in trade for 7days of planned filming days.
Todd McFarlane is taking forever with a script because he insists on writing it himself, even though you could give it to any decent horror script writer and put together a decent Spawn story.
there was an MTV cartoon that came out shortly after the movie which Todd Mcfarlen had direct control over. It's been awhile since I've seen it, but if memory serves correct the first couple seasons were actually pretty good, although the last one kinda started to go down hill a little.
***** makes me wonder how the hell their gonna pull off a preacher mini series. which is currently in the works. Don't think they'll ever get around to doing the crossed though. If I had to sum that comic up in two words it would be " murder orgy"
+balgus82 It was actually part of the plot initially. I read the book adaptation of this flick back when it came out (was a huge Spawn fan so anything 'Spawn' related was a "Must buy!" back then) and in the book Clown had been keeping tabs on Wanda and Terry, and the air freshener was his way of messing with them. Wanda even at one point asked Terry: "Hey, did you or Al put this in my car?" which led to one of those typical "Nah, wasn't me and I don't see why he would" "Oh, ok. Well, it's werid but I don't have time to think about it 'cos I'm late for work!" convos between the two.
Omg, i cant believe I got a reply from channel Awesome!.........Awesome! ...................... I'll tell my grandchildren about this day! :-P.... I wondery who replied to me 0_o??
In the movie Cyan is Al's daughter. In the TV show Al was impotent. In the comics Wanda was pregnant right before Al's last mission, they got into an argument, he hit her and she miscarried.
@@animechic420 in the comics Al belonged in Hell because he was a bad person. He redeems himself over the course of the comics and becomes a hero. The studio didn’t want to have a first film where Al is a villain protagonist, so they made him a hero who went to hell for being a killer soldier.
@@SefniAsheforr neither do u because in the matrix review when chester a bum says the movie is symbollic and means stuff the Critic replies with what JL Member just said
I know playstation 1 games that look better than the CG, no wonder Todd McFarlane is making a reboot to give Spawn a proper film (Note, I namely refer to the CG Malbosia, if I spelled the name of that demon right)
In the comic, if I remember it is explained that Violator, and Malebolgia(the one you call the devil) speak telepathically, so having Malebolgia's mouth not moving makes sense. But that is pretty much all they got right. John Leguisamo's portrayal as Clown/Violator is pretty good too. I am still waiting patiently for the new Spawn movie.
I don't think it's fair to compare Spawn's CGI to _any_ generation of video games. The priorities are just so...different. To put it simply, it probably has about as many polygons as a PS2-3 game but less idea of how to use them than the first 3D games ever made. The problem was less the technology and more the (lack of) art direction.
It does look like a pre-rendered intro video of a 90s game. Or in a less lucky situation, the entirety of an FMV game (that is probably made of quick-time events as gameplay).
4:27 I never knew about that. 15:58 Yeah, like how they did Scorpion after he pulled his mask off. 17:38 Awesome 20:44 Right! I said that too when I was little.
Doug, you have some amazing joke writing skills. Even Family Guy bite your comedy! You're honestly so underrated as a commentator, writer and comedian. Thank you for the many, many laughs.
I'm always confused when in movies and shows the Devil wants Armageddon to happen. I highly doubt that he hasn't read the Bible, so I would think that the Devil would want to put off the end of days as much s possible. He's got a sweet deal.
Malebolgia isn't the Devil in Spawn. He's the ruler of the 8th sphere of Hell. Spawn kills him and later confronts Satan and God, further finding out that God is not the almighty creator of the cosmos but Satan's twin brother and are children of the true cosmological creator called the Mother of Existence.
What I mean is that he has a sweet deal now. He gets to torture all the souls he wants in Hell and make peoples lives go to crap through subtle means on Earth. There's no reason he should want Armageddon to happen so soon. It's not like he's being tortured in Hell.
+Primus1985 I liked them well enough. They were flawed, but fairly enjoyable. I'm glad Marvel Studios has Spider Man back though. Some of the ideas Sony had for the Amazing Spider Man franchise were downright ridiculous.
+KingoftheGundam79 Meh for me I could never get into them 2 especially was terrible. Had one good scene with him fighting Electro (gag) in Times Square but other than that :P Dont know weather it was the writing, direction or the actor but my God that Peter Parker sucked, he was like some creepy emo kid. Yeah Sony was gonna try and world build so they can make multiple movies around Spider-Man, instead of doing the right thing and letting it go to Marvel. I'd rather watch Spider-Man 3 again than Amazing 1 or two.
The Violator was really the only good part of the movie. The acting and writing were both good for his character. Jason Wynn was terribly written, Cain was terribly written, and Spawn was terribly written. Cain was decently acted, but both Wynn and Spawn were acted almost as badly as they were written.
The "S" on Swayzak's torso (yes, that diamond is the Phobian character for "S") means control. Swayzak is always a control freak, even after he becomes a hero.
11:12 "I am going to put you in contact with a real professional" "Benny, how fast can you get down here?" "I'm already here." ... "I like him already!" And this is why Nostalgia Critic skits still have it.
Actually I seen this movie back in 1997 and I never forgot those visuals!! It's just puzzling how nobody in editing noticed how bad they looked! I mean seriously, when spawn got tossed across hell, he was skipping, like there was a problem with the game disc!
I honor these films because they helped to start the genre...my nephews laugh at the 1930s Flash Gordon serials, but they’re big Star Wars fans. Lucas was inspired by those old serials...I have a 70inch screen, and I enjoy all these films.
21:30 Spawn says that he's going to kill him and for him to send a message to his boss who is inhale implying that when he kills him he's going to go to hell but if his boss is already in hell when he kills him wouldn't he just respawn?
![[MV] A leap of faith...ความเชื่อใจครั้งสุดท้าย (From "Petrichor the series")](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1piZH2CNXA/mqdefault.jpg)
The reason Malbolgeia’s lips don’t move when he talks is actually because demons in the Spawn universe communicate through telepathy, so it’s cool they kept that detail in, but that doesn’t make it any better because they’d don’t explain it in the film
True and it sounds like a desperate explanation
Also because it’s easier to animate
John Leguizamo is the last person alive who needs to apologize for that movie. His portrayal of the Clown was one of if not the best part of that movie, and it wasn't bad.
P R E A C h
I think he said apology to leguizamo
I watched it as a child and had nightmares about his charchter. And I'm a fan of clowns. Much aggred
THE PEST. 🤨
He looks like Danny Devito if he was a mime with methemoglobinamia while on all the drugs
I really think that...Nostalgia Critics Devil is really cool. I mean, he is an awesome character. He has that gravitas about him. Anyone else agree?
Yee.
Yea
yey
+Edgar Allan Poe HOLY SHIT EDGAR YOUR ALIVE!!!! DUDE, TELL US HOW YOU DID IT, AND WHEN YOUR NEXT STORY IS COMING OUT!!!!
I don't know, I haven't decided yet...
Malcom as the Devil is seriously the best thing.
You got a heart, you are lucky.
A much better one than the giant 3d monster in the movie for sure :D Unlike him, Malcom has charm and a cool personality. Heck, even his daughter is a better ruler of Hell than the malfunctioning puppet.
When I arrive at the fiery gates I want to see Malcolm in charge of the place.
@@DrakeHunter324 i want to see the one from tf2 so i can manipulate him.
If the Devil is anything like that, this wicked sinner is looking forward to meeting him.
So an evil boss with a hot assistant and has a kink for creepy things and has pictures of explosions in his office...so...is this the office of Michael Bay?
except for the hot assistant, bay keeps running out of those
It is MICHAEL PERVERT BAYS office.
Lol
Hold on guys, hold on. Spawn reboot...directed by Micheal Bay. It's gonna make a billion!
Oh god dammit, his evil plan was to kill Optimus prime all along.
I'm surprised the Nostalgia Critic didn't talk about how HUGE spawn was in the 90s. He had his own comic, action figures, trading cards, t-shirts, soundtrack, video games, hell even his own show on HBO. And keep in mind that Spawn wasn't from Marvel or DC. That was unheard of at the time.
Well he did say the movie was based off the comic series. But yeah, he didn't mention the rest, though.
Spawn's candle wasn't lit too but when it did, it was the brightest in the late 90s but by the 2000s, his hype died down. (I blame the movie's failure.) And the talk of a sequel went through such a long development since the 2000s for so long that it soon became a reboot but after how long it's been in development, it probably won't happen because now Spawn is "dead" to everyone these days.
Fun Fact: I just saw a 2022 interview with Michael Jai White. In the interview, he agreed that the film was bad, and offered an explanation for why it turned out like it did...
White has said that the initial rough cut was a much better, darker and more complete movie, which was screened for an audience for feedback. The film got excellent feedback, so New Line gave the director full creative control over the film, assuming he would make it even better. However, the director (a former special effects supervisor) instead decided to use the movie as an effects showcase, and edited out most of the scenes of character development in order to make room for more VFX and action. White was supposedly shocked when he saw the premiere and realized most of the important plot and character scenes were gone, and had been replaced with loud, obnoxious special effects.
White has also said that there are scenes in the movie that were completely fabricated through editing pre-existing footage and adding CGI to it. (Such as the scene where Spawn removes the heart monitor from Wynn's body... that scene was completely constructed in post from B-roll footage with added CGI and wasn't in the script. It was simply put in to throw in some more "state of the art" CGI.)
I hope the reboot gets a dark tone and has updated effects.
I thought I felt that a couple of scenes were missing...😂
Bring back as many actors as you can, bring back the costumers get a new sfx crew and give us the original script, damn it!
John leguizamos performance in this movie is out of this world, he really worked for this movie and role, I hope more people will recognize this
I wish he would review HBO's Spawn: The Animated Series. It makes up for the movie, and was done well.
Supposedly Jamie Foxx is gonna be Spawn in a Spawn reboot that's based on the animated series.
Hope they would make a better version of Malebolgia if that gonna happen.
@@hansruhlmann454 I'm not holding my breath. I don't like Jamie Foxx.
I don't think they showed Malebolgia in the HBO series, did they....
@@frankjager2420 nope
The HBO series was awesome, I stumbled across it one day on youtube and got so into it, the athmosphere, mature storyline and Keith Davids' legendary voice acting all made it for me
Keith David's voice is fucking hot. He should be Swayzak if he ever returns on Toonami (but in my lore, he's written with his New Zealander accent from the game, and it's his native Phobian accent. His human disguise is Afro-Kiwi.)
Yeah, the Spawn cartoon was the tits. I'll watch that and then the movie every once in a while back to back. Sigh, it was a different time
fun fact this version of Satan is voiced by Frank Welker, the same voice as, megatron (G1), Kermit form the Muppet babies, and Abu from Aladdin
And Fred from scooby doo.
And Dr klaw
Fred From Scooby Doo is freaking Megatron?!
Damn, Pretender technology has come a long way...
NOT the voice actor of Doctor Claw? expectations more subverted than TLJ
Sounds like Frank knew how bad this movie would be and belched his lines to sound as much like a Saturday morning cartoon villian and/or Dr. Claw, and cleared his voice long enough to ask for his paycheck and the time he wasted on crap like this.
"He turns into a giant pumpkin head which, according to 90's logic, means he can't talk anymore, he can just go...(makes growling sounds) ...and, of course, he also loses the personality we've seen throughout the rest of the movie."
Me: Like The Bug from Men in Black.
Although the bug did speak earlier in the film without the disguise, idk why the contradiction exists, but at least the film's good.
In Toonami fanfics I've seen, Swayzak apparently can grow like so many Power Rangers villains (albeit I'm sure BoneSattelite intended it as a reference to Sark's final moments in Tron.) That just reminded me of it.
Someone needs to replace every Satan on film with a cheap Kermit the Frog puppet.
+PurpleWind64 YOU WILL SERVE MY ARMY OF HELL YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
We're going to kill you all, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
docdave15
YAAAAAAAAAAY
Definetly not a person Look at us, here we are, right where we belong.
docdave15
yes
"N64 devil"
Come one now, the N64 actually had decent graphics, even if dated today.
That devil looks like it came from the Sega Saturn.
Do you still try to kill GWAR?
Critic is strangely right though with the effects. Spawn at 9:53 looks exactly like the pre-rendered Killer Instinct Gold characters, especially Glacius.
Tekkno Destrukto nah! Atari Jaguar devil.
imagine being dumb enough to talk about special effects and CGI
I mean, an apocalypse led by Kermit the frog would be utterly terrifying.
“Hi-Ho! Your soul shall be consumed and be tortured for eternities”
Yaaaaaay!
In the name of the destroyer of souls
Ms.piggy
CHAAAAARRRGGGE
Have you ever seen DevilArtemis?
And very saddening
Well, as a fan of Spawn, altough this movie has some problems, I think they remained as loyal to the source material as they could, even today we don't see that as much...
I'm not an expert on Spawn, but aren't there a lot of deviations from the comic?
Spawn basically doesn't have the 'memory loss', Sam & Twitch are just a cameo, Wynn is doing a different thing, no Mafia or Billy Kincaid, Chapel is replaced by Priest, etc
@@grim_2000, yeah, there are differences from the comic book, but for the most part, you see the charaacter is there, the essence was preserved! and the action figures base on the movie are AWESOME, BTW!
@@tadeuferreira4059☝️🤓
NC: Does Hell have an instruction book we can read?
The Devil: Yes, here you go.
NC: Wait, this is just Apple's user agreement.
lol
+Stefan B. don't forget the book 1984
"This is the google plus sign up"
+Stefan B.
That is just a stupid fucking joke. Not at all funny. Don't know how you got so many likes. You're not funny. But you do repeat jokes made time and time again. South Park did it better.
pulptarantino
"That's boring. You're boring everybody. Quit boring everyone!" - Homer Simpson
"Buy the toys."
This is actually not a bad idea. Like at all.
TheNeonOutlaw Todd McFarlane toys were always awesome
Yep, I had almost all of the ine,s and they were awesome, some of the best figures I came across!
I bet the devil looked more convincing in toy form.
I had Spawn. I didn't know where he came from, so I always put him with my Spider-Man action figures from the movie because I knew he wasn't DC. Finally, in sixth grade, I saw the movie.
@@Fluffkitscripts especially since thats a different character
8:57 _"NEXT ON TMZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ . . ."_
* shudder *
TeeeeaaaaaahMehhhhhZeeeyyyyyy!!!!
+Catzilla TMZ!!! Its OWN level of HELL!!!
next on TMZ we caught Selena Gomez breathing
+Cathy Holster no one is commenting on how well doug walker knows the devil isnt that weird
+jo jones not really it's just a joke
love the Sheen reference “I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice mission, and when it was over, I never wanted another.”
Martin Sheen in 'Apocalypse Now' (1979)
In defense of the Violator not talking in monster form, he doesn't in the comics or HBO series either. However, he does communicate telepathically, which could have been awesome.
He at least kept his personality and din’t just go “GWAGGHRAGHWAH”
Can you tell me more about the comics? I've only really heard about it, and it looks pretty cool, like a hybrid between venom Spiderman and doctor strange.
@@philipgood5041 The comics are about redemption and what it means to be a hero. The art is very Venom Spider-man (which makes sense because McFarlane drew Venon Spider-man) and the story (while slow for the first 25-30 issues) is a great redemption story and hero arc.
Spawn goes from gritty anti-hero to traditional hero over time. If you can get through the first 25-30 issues, it is a great series and easily one of the two best (i.e. only good) early Image comics.
Be warned (this a legitimate trigger warning) that there are themes of domestic violence
SPOILERS
Al Simmons was not a good person in life like in the movie. Cyan is not his daughter in the comics, and in fact he hit Wanda before going on his last mission which caused her to miscarry. The story is about him acknowledging that he belonged in Hell and becoming a better person.
I know im a 6yrs late but Violator spoke telepathically in the game Spawn Armageddon
I didn't mind Spawn honestly
But seriously I would love to see a reboot with today's technology
Darkwing Queen Discord the Darkwarrior I heard the director is thinking about a reboot of some sort
Wish granted.
and now you finally have your wish mahahahahahahahaha..cuz ones being made with Jamie fox hahahaha....
@@danielshimoda9246 hmm, if Will Smith Can play a homeless man who still has to take care of his son or if Jamie can Play a convincing blind man, I am sure he will be a good spawn too, though I will miss Keith David's voice of Spawn
2019, it's coming.
I'm pretty sure...
Welp, nevermind.
4:31 It's like if wolverine was reading a magazine with magneto on the cover.
Wait did critic just predict the Logan movie?!
The devil in this movie looks like a Deathclaw with a 80's rock musician mullet.
He’s not the devil read a comic
@@toren2099 You’re telling him to read a comic, but you can’t even write a sentence. 😂
9:15 "How come God hogs up all the good followers and we get all the retards?"
I swear, the clown/violator is the best part of the movie.
9:25 "Start diggin'!"
Because God wants the good followers for a logical reason.
The CG looks more like something the Sega CD crapped out.
+FanNintendo98 Even the Sega CD wasn't that bad.
+FanNintendo98 no i've seen better graphics on a gameboy
+Sir Fur Actually the Sega CD was much worse them this.
+FanNintendo98 This movie CGI makes Tekken 1/2 CGI looks like Avatar.
+FanNintendo98 The Windows 95 maze screensaver had better CGI than this movie.
I love Spawn. but this movie could of been soo much better. if you want a spawn movie check out the animated hbo series.
I've seen that, I really like it
There's an animated series based on Spawn on hbo?
Legoking 616
yep, it's quality
Legoking 616 Yeah, it looked nice from what I remember... ☺
Rick Sanchez the intergalactic Hellspawn But this movie? That's a new one for me! Probably because Batman and Robin and Barb Wire were released the same year...
11:48 “Red Skull?” “No, that’s a different comic company. I’m Bacon Skull!” XD
18:46 Funnily enough, the same guy who did the special effects of the Mask also did the special effects in this movie as well.
Rewatching this review after Spawn’s confirmation for Mortal Kombat 11.
at least mk 11 did spawn justice
Does anyone else hear the Nicholes Cage version of the opening theme whenever it plays?
Inr
i still do
I sing it every time.
+The Jam Man i hear the lyrics every time
+The Jam Man YES!
You seem to be real good friends with the devil but... have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
He just needs to remember not to rub another man's rhubarb
Melvin? Melvin? Brother of the Joker?
Is it bad I only know that from Fallout 1?
As a matter of fact, I have. We were on a blind date. Unfortunately he never returns my calls. Says I’m too creepy!
I tried but he kept stepping on my toes...
I lost it at "Set your guns to not even close!"
nice
The setting which most Stormtroopers have on their guns.
Conratliations
The Spawn Devil looks like a demon possessed Scooby Doo mixed with a donkey.
Or if the original design of Movie Sonic and one of the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park had a horribly rendered baby.
That’s not the devil, it’s a demon named Malebolgia, don’t worry it’s an easy mistake to make, but the demon Scooby Doo thing still stands.
Or a ginger girls hair got nuked and then was genetically mutated with sausage rolls for the next scoopy doo movie. Scoopy doo meets spawn:yes we got sued by the world.
Or if Scrappy Doo from the 2002 Scooby Doo movie raped the original design for Movie Sonic mixed with X Men Origins: Wolverine’s Deadpool, I mean Deadpool’s lips were stitched shut, it would supposedly explain Malebolgia’s lips don’t move.
DONKEY!
Kermit the frog? Why is he in hell?
+MachMetalSonic I can think of a few reasons. Like the signs review. lol.
Rape
Pig fucking?
+MachMetalSonic I think after what happened in the Labyrinth review
+ejay young absolutely haram
That green ranger was Angela the avenging angel. Her earrings are dead hellspawn. She was going to have a bigger role if the sequel was ever made.
The funny thing is there are sequels to this. Spawn 2, and Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle. Both are animated though.
@@dr.timelord0483 those arent related to the movie, they are just the 2nd and 3rd seasons of the hbo animated show.
@@zck4398 Well then. I'm an idiot. Sorry!
@@dr.timelord0483 no problem dude, i was just clearing up any confusion🙂
@@zck4398 Thanks.
The funny thing is, in the comics they don't really tell you anything about the back story until a few issues in. It's very mysterious and you discover it all in flashbacks. In fact, it's pretty much like what they did with Deadpool. The movie just dumps it on you all at once, so it doesn't really work that well.
+Stephen Leotti Which one deadpool or spawn
Zack Bloodworth In Deadpool (the movie) they start with Deadpool already in the suit, and then tell you how he got there in flashback. Which is similar to how they introduce Spawn in the comics, and should have done in the movie, but they didn't.
+Stephen Leotti Also, his memories are fragmented, so even he doesn't know until much later
I hated that to I love the comics and t was cool in who was this character
***** You are correct.
Not gonna lie Tamra looks good in that outfit
Many women would
agreed
Like ribbit!
LRAK Reacts😍 I know right Hello Nurse 😍
You know what the irony is for the effects? They won an award for best special effects at the time.
HOW?! What kind of brain damage did the awards show have when they saw this movie?! Didn't they see how awful Malebolgia (you know, that shitty-looking Devil whose name the Critic never mentions?) looked?!
Dakota Foote Yeah...I know that. I'm telling this to all the people who are unaware this. It's like going back in time and looking at 32-bit graphics. It may look like shit to this generation, but for me at that time it was mind blowing.
Yeah, but even in 1997 there was better CGI - even Toy Story looked more realistic than the hell in this movie.
Tommy Carr T2's and Jurassic Park's CGI still look good to this day.
Well, at least they tried with the available technology of the nineties.
The only reason I know who spawn is, is because I had the Xbox version of soul caliber 2 growing up, spawn was a guest character
OMG
+Marco Palomba people who bought the gamecube version had link as a guest character
trevon444 yep, but wasn't Necrid a special feature as well?
+Marco Palomba necrid was on all versions of the game
Ethan Taugner oh, ok. Thought I would have gladly traded Spawn for Link...great game, great memories...
Malcom's Devil voice is incredible.
I am now convinced that this was a reworked sequel to the Mask. I am also convinced that Son of the Mask was a reworked sequel to this.
😂😂😂I’m wheezing!!!😂😂😂
Space Ghost would cry at that.
Who put Tommy Wiseau in charge of the effects for this movie
Emily Kreiger
Master Wiseau doesn't bother with you little chicken effects.
Cheep cheep cheep cheepepepep
tttooo be fair.... tommy would of done a better job.. probably
This was actually the fault of a bunch of CGI Bros who got fired, and forever banned, from Skywalker Ranch by Lucas. They literally tried using this movie as a demo reel for their “skills”. They even changed the final battle to CGI Hell in the middle of filming, with only 1/8th of the effects budget left, and in trade for 7days of planned filming days.
@@cjwrench07 Considering how kickass the spawns costume design was it feels really out of place in this movie.
Jebu911 yeah, the practical suits were all great. For me, it was Leguizamo’s Violator suit that really impressed me the most.
The "hell" in the South Park movie looked better than this shit!
yeah
That Hell was awesome because all the celebrities were there
Bigger, Longer and Uncut
I agree.
Ehhhhh, relax, guy!
What happened to Spawn? Deadpool gets a good movie, why can't Spawn?
Not a movie tho.
Todd McFarlane is taking forever with a script because he insists on writing it himself, even though you could give it to any decent horror script writer and put together a decent Spawn story.
there was an MTV cartoon that came out shortly after the movie which Todd Mcfarlen had direct control over. It's been awhile since I've seen it, but if memory serves correct the first couple seasons were actually pretty good, although the last one kinda started to go down hill a little.
It was a HBO cartoon.
*****
makes me wonder how the hell their gonna pull off a preacher mini series. which is currently in the works.
Don't think they'll ever get around to doing the crossed though. If I had to sum that comic up in two words it would be " murder orgy"
"If you won't lead my army, then you must die!"
Me: Heeeee's allllllready DEAD!😡😬
I read the comment in squidwards voice during his Hash-Slinging Slasher story.
yup. Thats the joke.
Wait would that make him double dead
@@bla5t3rproductions41 It still doesn't make any sense.
Wheres he gonna go, double hell?
There's two things I like about this movie, John Leguizamo and the music.
The Other Devil
I couldn’t agree more! Also, love the Blitzwing profile picture~ 👍🏻
The soundtrack was sick! I actually still have it on CD.😀
The soundtrack is the most glorious thing ever. Needs more Moloko though.
All these years and I had NEVER noticed the Clown's face on that air freshener. lol
+balgus82 Same. But I suck at Easter Egg stuff like that. To be fair I don't think I had seen Apocalypse Now when I last saw Spawn.
+balgus82 It was actually part of the plot initially. I read the book adaptation of this flick back when it came out (was a huge Spawn fan so anything 'Spawn' related was a "Must buy!" back then) and in the book Clown had been keeping tabs on Wanda and Terry, and the air freshener was his way of messing with them. Wanda even at one point asked Terry: "Hey, did you or Al put this in my car?" which led to one of those typical "Nah, wasn't me and I don't see why he would" "Oh, ok. Well, it's werid but I don't have time to think about it 'cos I'm late for work!" convos between the two.
+balgus82 That makes two of us!!
+WinterSoldier LTE Thanks bro, that's actually interesting.
Me either.
binge watching nc.... again :-P
Awesome!
+Channel Awesome REVEIW the Spawn show from fox
+Channel Awesome An actual big (?) TH-camr that actually cares about their fans and replies to comments? WOAH!
Omg, i cant believe I got a reply from channel Awesome!.........Awesome! ...................... I'll tell my grandchildren about this day! :-P.... I wondery who replied to me 0_o??
Me too, but only because I started watching him very recently.
4:47 - 4:52
Just the wife. Cyan wasn't born yet. In fact, she's Wanda and Terry's child. Al was actually impotent.
In the movie Cyan is Al's daughter. In the TV show Al was impotent. In the comics Wanda was pregnant right before Al's last mission, they got into an argument, he hit her and she miscarried.
@@geoffreysorkin5774 the fuck? 😳
@@animechic420 in the comics Al belonged in Hell because he was a bad person. He redeems himself over the course of the comics and becomes a hero. The studio didn’t want to have a first film where Al is a villain protagonist, so they made him a hero who went to hell for being a killer soldier.
@@geoffreysorkin5774 I was reacting more towards the argument Al had with Wanda that not only led to him hitting her, but her having a miscarriage.
The Kermit uprising is upon us
Yaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!
+Zynnix lol
Its the Deadpool Corps
+The Credible Hulk you've got a point
+PizzaKing Films YEAHHHHH!
11:09-11:13 Wait? You didn't like the Martix?
Out!
But it was symbolic and meant stuff.
lol
That's what I thought!
Bigmetroidfan12 just because it's symbolic and meant stuff doesn't automatically make it a good movie
JL member Someone doesn't get the joke...
@@SefniAsheforr neither do u because in the matrix review when chester a bum says the movie is symbollic and means stuff the Critic replies with what JL Member just said
Apparently Todd wants to make a reboot, we'll see, cause he's been saying this shit for years.
Fun fact: Nicol Williamson also played the Nome King in "Return to Oz" and Badger in 1996's "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride".
Nicol Williamson, also played Merlin in Excalibur, his most defining role. Check it out. It's pure 80's cheese, and pure class as well.
He’s great in “The Cheap Detective” a very funny film.
I know playstation 1 games that look better than the CG, no wonder Todd McFarlane is making a reboot to give Spawn a proper film (Note, I namely refer to the CG Malbosia, if I spelled the name of that demon right)
Really, when?
We haven't had a release date yet sadly, he says it should be within the next year or two
yeah i heard about that and I hear they wanna do a arkhum asylum movie with batman
+Sasuke Uchiha yeah.... he also said he was going to finish the animated series but it seems that will never happen...
yeah that sucks, i at least hope he means it with the movie
Mickey: Hit the bag!
Rocky: **punch**
Mickey: You're good
I'm gonna piss myself xD
Appolo
Yoda: move that rock.
*moves rock*
Yoda: that's enough.
@@GigaChadh976 Wax on......you don't need to know the rest.
In the comic, if I remember it is explained that Violator, and Malebolgia(the one you call the devil) speak telepathically, so having Malebolgia's mouth not moving makes sense. But that is pretty much all they got right. John Leguisamo's portrayal as Clown/Violator is pretty good too. I am still waiting patiently for the new Spawn movie.
12:28. "Set your guns to NOT even close." Good god how that needs to be the tagline for the NEXT Star Wars film!
''Buddy.. I served with the Devil, I knew the Devil, the devil is a friend of my mine.. You sir, are no ''Devil''.
That line was pretty badass.
"DONT JUDGE ME" -Satan whilst writing on a Doctor McStuffins card
😂😂😂
With a bright pink flexible pen
I don't think it's fair to compare Spawn's CGI to _any_ generation of video games. The priorities are just so...different. To put it simply, it probably has about as many polygons as a PS2-3 game but less idea of how to use them than the first 3D games ever made. The problem was less the technology and more the (lack of) art direction.
He should have said it looks like Doom 3.
82 likes!? Really? Was it worth the time and effort to create 82 different profiles just the make your own comment look good?
It does look like a pre-rendered intro video of a 90s game. Or in a less lucky situation, the entirety of an FMV game (that is probably made of quick-time events as gameplay).
@@theriggslygamer1910
More like Doom 64
I belive it looks ok, specially at time
4:27 I never knew about that.
15:58 Yeah, like how they did Scorpion after he pulled his mask off.
17:38 Awesome
20:44 Right! I said that too when I was little.
Doug, you have some amazing joke writing skills. Even Family Guy bite your comedy! You're honestly so underrated as a commentator, writer and comedian. Thank you for the many, many laughs.
Hey, get your tongue out of his ass
I'll never complain about seeing Melinda Clarke in some sexy clothing.
ikr
Why, Black Dynamite?!?!?! Why!!!
The spawn costume was awesome and the mask covering his face effect.
Review jem and the holograms
agreed!
hi bill!
*please
It would be a clipless review tho
+Rachel Kozlowski FUCKING MILLENNIALS!!! the movie
I'm always confused when in movies and shows the Devil wants Armageddon to happen. I highly doubt that he hasn't read the Bible, so I would think that the Devil would want to put off the end of days as much s possible. He's got a sweet deal.
It's due to the misbelief that Satan is a ruler of the damned instead of just an overseer.
Malebolgia isn't the Devil in Spawn. He's the ruler of the 8th sphere of Hell. Spawn kills him and later confronts Satan and God, further finding out that God is not the almighty creator of the cosmos but Satan's twin brother and are children of the true cosmological creator called the Mother of Existence.
Wow. And I thought ACTUAL Christianity was fucking insane.
+Albus Kane Right?
What I mean is that he has a sweet deal now. He gets to torture all the souls he wants in Hell and make peoples lives go to crap through subtle means on Earth. There's no reason he should want Armageddon to happen so soon. It's not like he's being tortured in Hell.
I swear. The Devil is one of Malcolm's best roles.
He's hilarious XD
It’s funny how the cartoon is more mature and serious than the movie is
OMFG I DIED WHEN SHE SAID "nice outfit" then nostalgia critic said "look who is talking prostitart" that is never gonna get old for me atleast
Martin Sheen also played Uncle Ben in Amazing Spider Man, and he was pretty cool there.
That's a much better superhero movie
Yep.
+Juan CL Correction, slightly better. I fact I hesitate to use the word "better" as that implies it was good :P
+Primus1985 I liked them well enough. They were flawed, but fairly enjoyable. I'm glad Marvel Studios has Spider Man back though. Some of the ideas Sony had for the Amazing Spider Man franchise were downright ridiculous.
+KingoftheGundam79 Meh for me I could never get into them 2 especially was terrible. Had one good scene with him fighting Electro (gag) in Times Square but other than that :P Dont know weather it was the writing, direction or the actor but my God that Peter Parker sucked, he was like some creepy emo kid. Yeah Sony was gonna try and world build so they can make multiple movies around Spider-Man, instead of doing the right thing and letting it go to Marvel.
I'd rather watch Spider-Man 3 again than Amazing 1 or two.
13:36 I actually pissed my pants laughing at The Clown cheerleader dance.
I remembered laughing and having a freaked out WTH when I first saw that scene...and that was when I was in my 20s
Keep better control of your bladder.
I just got to that part as I read this!!!😂😂😂
Doug may not know it, but The Violator acts exactly the same as in the comics, he did make all these porn and fart jokes
The Violator was really the only good part of the movie. The acting and writing were both good for his character. Jason Wynn was terribly written, Cain was terribly written, and Spawn was terribly written. Cain was decently acted, but both Wynn and Spawn were acted almost as badly as they were written.
Glad they changed that in the HBO animated series
The "E" stands for evil.
In "man of steel" the "S" stood for hope.
The "M" from my avatar stands for wisdom. Right?
The "S" on Swayzak's torso (yes, that diamond is the Phobian character for "S") means control. Swayzak is always a control freak, even after he becomes a hero.
I legitimately do not understand how this film works. Seriously. I've watched the film, I've watched this review, and I can't understand how it works.
It doesn't work. Lol
@@threat9231 late, but correct
Just watch the HBO Spawn series,it's a helluva show more better than this crap.
@@mobiledota2555 *more good, or *better, but never "more better"
@@Eidolon1andOnly more better so it is the bestestest clearly
big in the 90s Spawn Spawn Spawn
created by a guy named Mcfarland
had his own show on HBO
did the plot make sense no no no
lol
+Derrick Williams hi other Derrick! :D
+47Cartoonguy Robot Chicken 4 LIFE!
+47Cartoonguy Hey I liked that show. Wasn't perfect but definitely better than this.
Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!
Tamara's ability to look sexy in any costume possible is a superpower all on it's own.
I love tamara chambers
see an optometrist
edit: I mean go to one, your vision is so bad you probably can't see one
a kermet puppet looks more real than this devil
11:12
"I am going to put you in contact with a real professional"
"Benny, how fast can you get down here?"
"I'm already here."
...
"I like him already!"
And this is why Nostalgia Critic skits still have it.
yeah, we watched it too
11:15 BENNY!!!! Nice to have him back! He's so badass he didn't need to be on camera
Just started reading the spawn comic and I’m in love.
Man, when the Hell is Spawn going to get an update? Ive been waiting for a new Spawn movie for years.
I believe they are working on one atm actually
James Loucks Mr. Mcfarlane just finished the script for a new Spawn movie.
Noice.
2019, actually.
"Well, you look better in it than Topher Grace"
I damn near died of laughter
Roger Ebert gave this 3.5 out of 4, calling it unforgettable visual experience (((
(facepalm)
+გიორგი ალადაშვილი Well, he wasn't wrong. Would you forget THOSE visuals?
Roger Elbert also gave the matrix revolutions thumbs up saying it ended with a bang!
Actually I seen this movie back in 1997 and I never forgot those visuals!! It's just puzzling how nobody in editing noticed how bad they looked! I mean seriously, when spawn got tossed across hell, he was skipping, like there was a problem with the game disc!
+randygelion Bang?! More like with a whimper. That said, I don't hate Revolutions nearly as much others do.
1:12 “I served with the devil. I knew the devil. The devil is a friend of mine. You sir, are no devil.” It took me a minute
Don't recognize it.
It’s an awesome phrase but who does say that actually?
Wow there were more good jokes in this than several reviews combined
+Kevin the Cow Oh ffs, Not this vegan day cow bullshit, STOP IT. Fucking vegans...
+Humpsterlicious Whuh?
+Evan Gragg I still think the planet of the apes remake review was the funniest. haha
Watch as I write my name in the Snow
+Evan Gragg Guess it depends on the movie... Some of the films Critic has reviewed in the past just write their own script...
I honor these films because they helped to start the genre...my nephews laugh at the 1930s Flash Gordon serials, but they’re big Star Wars fans. Lucas was inspired by those old serials...I have a 70inch screen, and I enjoy all these films.
They should just make reboots of all 90's movies that sucked
There would never be any kind of movie other than reboots then
+CasaiAgicap Sick burn bruh.
21:30
Spawn says that he's going to kill him and for him to send a message to his boss who is inhale implying that when he kills him he's going to go to hell but if his boss is already in hell when he kills him wouldn't he just respawn?
4:05 so you aren't gonna mention the evil guy has a framed picture of atomic bomb in his office?
EDIT: nevermind 5:19
Venser s
In all fairness, John Leguizamo's performance as the Violator is probably the best thing about this movie.
"Set your guns to "not even close.." HAHAH
To the people who saw the spawn trailer for mk11, comment here!
Peyton Redulfin MK represent!
Here!
Here
Comment beggar
Sands Underman Yeah, I just wanted to do this at least once.
I gotta admit Nostalga Critic has a badass intro
Watch this while you can before TH-cam rips it away!
Here, have a cake 🍰 while you watch this. :)
+jseeker1867 Or just out right claims it.
"What assassin dresses like that?"
Black Widow?
10:55
"Armor, bulletproof vest, a mask to hide your face!"
Black Widow?
The HBO Spawn was incredible and can be found on TH-cam.
"There's no knockin' this cock-in!" Goddamit, that needs to be a catchphrase. XD
This is now on Netflix
(Dr claw) uh how dare you!?
Xpgk Gamovie reviewer This is why I'm here. And he didn't even mention the completely random transitions out of nowhere.
First rule to being a stormtrooper: "Set your guns to not even close!!"
I think that same rule applies to everyone who works for Cobra.
8:42 and 14:30
These are the TMZ parts I'm sure people wanted to see most of all when rewatching this video
Truly It is a Hell for Hell