Hello there animation fans it's not unusual for characters to be given there own animated movie or series and the same is also said for the character Achmed The Dead Terrorist who is one of the most popular characters that ventriloquist Jeff Dunham created and so in 2014 he was given his own animated movie and so here is my review of Achmed Saves America.
The plot of the movie is Achmed finds himself transported from his homeland and landing in Americaville and he tries to change his ways. Yeah that's the best way to describe the plot since there's not really much story at all it's just basically stuff happens but I will say that this movie is only an hour long and it's pacing is really good.
Starring in the film is the films executive producer and Achmed creator Jeff Dunham , Susan Egan as Ginny , Spongebob as Wayne , André Sogliuzzov as Hassan , Amanda Troop as Cassidy and Chiara Zanni as Kevin. In terms of acting the film does fair a little better but that's only due to the talent involved but the script and sadly the script isn't that good and since the only actors can take a performance so far they do the best with what there given.
The characters in this movie are so dumb the main family don't even notice that there guest has no skin despite the fact you can quite clearly see he has no skin heck he even sings a song about having no skin and they don't even no that Achmed is a terrorist despite all of the evidence proving he's a terrorist.
I have no idea who did the animation for this film and i;m glad because the animation in this film isn't that good in fact it's at best decent but for every decent animated scene there's one that looks bad and I think that's because the film would have had a really small budget thus effectively making it an independent film and with very little budget the crew wouldn't have had the pleasure to go back and redraw something that looks bad.
It's really hard to describe this film since not alot really happens and that's a shame because if your a fan of the Achmed character then I could easily recommend this film to you but at the same time get ready to see pretty much a watered down version of the character.
The closet film I would say this is like is Space Jam because even tho that is a good film the Looney Tunes were just there to say catchphrases and nothing else well in my eyes the same thing can be said for Achmed in this film he's there just to say catchphrases and nothing else and while Space Jam had the advantage of being based of something that alot of people love the same cannot be said for this film so I feel a little more effort should have been put into it.
I will say that if you like Jeff's other characters then you might be happy because some of them do cameo in this film Bubba j appears in the opening which for some reason is done in live action and my personal favorite character Walter appears around the start of the third act and honestly I would want to see a movie just based on him.
Honestly the jokes in this film are extremely hit and miss when they land they can be pretty funny but when they miss may god do you feel it in fact the jokes in this film feel like something you'd see on a bad nineties sitcom that's how dated the jokes can be which for me is a very bad thing because this film was released in 2014 and they couldn't think of any new jokes.
Overall like I said if your a fan of the character then I can recommend this film to you but it is still a very bad film and yes I know this review is pretty short but in my defense i've written two reviews today so i'm pretty tired and so this film scores a 4 out of 10 from me.
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