Well then animation fans I'm finally getting around to bringing a review of a movie that not that many people talk about and it's not hard to see why since the show it's based on only lasted three seasons and this movie went straight to DVD. So here is my review of the possibly underrated movie The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!.
The basic plot of the movie is the drawn together gang find out that the show has been cancelled and decide to try and get it back on the air all the while trying to escape an evil killer robot sent to destroy them by the network head. I have to admit that I love how meta the plot of the movie is but at the same time it's still not that great of a story.
Jess Harnell as Captain Hero , Cree Summer as Foxxy Love , James Arnold Taylor as Wooldoor Sockbat , Adam Carolla as Spanky Ham , Tara Strong as Princess Clara and Toot Braunstein , Abbey DiGregorio as Ling-Ling , Jack Plotnick as Xandir P. Wifflebottom , Seth MacFarlane as I.S.R.A.E.L and Vernon Wells as The Network Head. As for what I thought about the acting considering that alot of the cast are voice acting legends the acting is honestly really freaking good.
There's alot of references to other cartoons in this movie and honestly alot of them are really funny. It honestly never occurred to me that Barney would cheat on Betty I always thought it would be the other way round but the fact that they did that kind of joke and then made it apart of the plot was a really clever and funny idea. It would have been so easy for them just to do that joke and then not bring it up ever again so I'm glad that they worked it into the story.
The animation was done by Rough Draft Korea who I'm guessing did the animation for the show altho I can't say for sure. I can say that the animation in the film was very hit and miss for me there were some scenes where the animation looked really good but then there were times when it looked pretty bad.
What I thought was impressive was how when they were mocking another cartoon the film would look like the show it was spoofing like when they make fun of The Flintstones for example it looks an episode of the show neck they might have even had some repeating backgrounds but I'm not sure on that one tho. Another great example is they have a character which is meant to be a spoof of South Park and so everytime she moves it's how the characters from South Park would move.
I'll admit that I was never that big of a fan of the show I did enjoy the overall concept of it was just never that interesting to me personally. Heck this even the second time that I've tried to review this movie the first time I just turned it of after the opening segment but this time I'm glad that I finally got to bring you this review.
The movie isn't even feature length it's just over an hour and ten minutes long and you actually don't feel it. Which was what truly shocked me because I tried to watch a few episodes of the show awhile back and I felt every single one of those twenty two minutes so to have the movie not have that issue to me works in the movies favour.
This film is full to the brim with adult jokes and to me those jokes can be funny at times but alot of the time there just there for the sake of it and aren't really that funny. What I did find funny tho are the films meta jokes like when there drowning and they get the great idea to listen to the films commentary track that to me is a funny joke. Another funny joke at least in my opinion is in Claras kingdom and how they make all of the people there look like there from a Disney movie.
Overall I can see why people don't enjoy this film as much but in my opinion it is a rather funny film that's full of funny jokes. Guys and girls I know that my reviews haven't been as crazy detailed as they have been in the past and that's because I'm having issues with getting the internet on my laptop it's fine every where else tho and this film gets a 6 out 10 from me.
No comments:
Post a Comment