Igor: Review By Rama's SCREEN

I hate summing up something with just the word ‘okay’ but that’s exactly the impression that IGOR gives me. Children would probably like this movie, everything about it is meant only for kids under the age of 8 to enjoy. But For older viewers, not so much… unless you have children of your own. It doesn’t have the comedy that Kung Fu Panda has and it lacks the visual awesomeness presented by Wall-E, so watching IGOR is basically like watching any Sunday morning cartoon. This is the kind of movie that would entertain kids during day care while waiting for their parents to pick them up.

The humor is very dry, You’d watch the whole thing and you hear every joke and punch line and instead of laughing, your hand will be covering your face as your head goes down, shaking slowly in disbelief because of how lame it is.

But keep in mind that this is a children-oriented movie, they’re the target audience and they would probably laugh out loud at the sight of the comic-relief characters, Brain and Scamper voiced by Sean Hayes and Steve Buscemi.

And maybe it’s okay not to like this movie as long as our young ones do and just like any other family movie out there, this also has a good message. About how we all have the capability to be bad but we can choose to be good instead.

The concept is interesting, an igor, a sidekick trying to be more than what the world tells him to be. He’s an unlikely hero in a kingdom with a funny name, Malaria. Ha! Now that one’s actually pretty funny.

The only character that really cracks me up is the invisible reporter scratching his invisible butt.

I think the voice stars done really good job, they alter their voices to fit the characters they represent. If I didn’t know any better, I say I wouldn’t recognize Jay Leno as the voice of hypocritical Mayor of Malaria

Even John Cusack has a silly, yet entertaining IGOR accent of his own.

Nothing spectacular about the visual or the animation, Once again, I think it’s just ‘okay. Certainly not the kind that would leave you in awe.

IGOR is a very children-oriented movie but it does have a few very brief somewhat frightening images and shock value that some kids might be afraid of but other than that, even the supposedly evil monster would wreak havoc by singing the Annie’s song.