With The Emoji Movie coming out this Friday I thought it would be a good idea to review another movie that made me question humanity. That film being Foodfight.
Foodfight is a 2012 computer animated adventure comedy. It's produced by C47 Productions, Lionsgate Family Entertainment, Natural Image, StorkArk Media, and Threshold Entertainment and it's distributor is Vivia Pictures. The movie was written by Sean Catherine Derek, Lawrence Kasanoff, Brent Friedman, and Rebecca Swanson and directed by Lawrence Kasanoff.
The story is a brand mascots aka ikes come to life in a supermarket after closing time. Then a product known as Brand X arrives at their store. The ikes soon discover that Brand X is poisonous to both them and customers. Now all of the ikes must band together to defend their store against the evil product.
Once again I'm not using the bullet points that give you the negatives, mix, or positives about the movie. Because the whole film is just one big negative. So now with that out of the way let's get right into the review.
My Thoughts
One of the absolute worst things about this movie is the animation. This is probably the worst 3D animated movie I have ever seen. According to some reports Lawrence Kasanoff wanted the animation to be a mash-up between motion capture while at the same time have stretch and squash animation. This was a terrible idea because motion capture is more realistic where stretch and squash is more cartoony. So by combing these two very different styles you get animation that's stiff, ugly, and something you would see in your nightmares.
Another thing I hate about this movie is the names to our characters. That may sound like a nitpick but let me give you a list of these names. Dax Dogtective, Sunshine Goodness, Daredevil Dan, Lady X, General X, and Mr. Clipboard. Who was in charge when naming these characters. Did the filmmakers go to the nearest preschool and said hey Timmy here are some characters for our movie give them names.
The movie's main lesson is "The secrets inside all of us". I have no idea what that means. Dax said it twice. The first was when he was being interviewed and he said "The secrets inside" then at the end of the movie he said the line above and not once are we told what that means.
There's a very creepy scene where Lady X is in a sexy schoolgirl uniform and she seduces Dax. Yes a woman is seducing a dog. The whole movie is riddled with blatant and obvious sexual innuendos. There's also a scene where Daredevil Dan gets hit on by Vlad Chocool a very gay vampire mascot for a brand of cereal. If this was a good movie all of these innuendos would have been snuck in here and done in a clever way but this is Foodfight where nothing is done right.
None absolutely none of the humor in Foodfight works. Each and every joke never lands it mark or your just scratching your head wondering what was I suppose to laugh at that? It doesn't help that film relys heavily on slapstick, bad puns, and every predictable lowbrow joke you can think of!
The movie has probably the cheeses opening theme song I've have ever heard. The song is called It's Our World. It's one of those songs that try way too hard to be whimsical.
The world that Foodfight has built is just a mess. It's starts out simple enough the lights in the supermarket go out then the ikes' world appears. But then there's a scene where Mr. Clipboard throws a bag of chips on the ground and stomps on it then a different bag of chips see that and swears vengeance. So is that how the ikes' see what's going on in our world? Then it gets more confusing because then Dax and Dan go to find out what Brand X's evil plan is and their in the real world without the supermarket's lights being out. So what was the point of the light idea if later on the film showed us it's pointless.
There are many other problems with this film but I just wanted to tell you the big ones. So let's move on to my rating.
Foodfight has a corny opening song, hideous animation, awful jokes, terrible names for our characters, sexual innuendos that are way too inappropriate for kids, a confusing moral lesson, and continuity errors to how the ikes' world works.
My final rating for this movie is Destroy It!
So this was an awful experience but there is some good news. On Thursday I'll have a new segment on The Michael Project called Underrated Films. It's were I look at good movies that deserve way more love than what they got and since tomorrow Batman: Mask of the Phantasm will finally get a Blu-ray release it will be the first movie I review.
State of The Project (Jul 10th - Jul 29th)
Jul 10th - Spider-Man: Homecoming Easter Eggs
Jul 13th - No War for the Planet of the Apes Review. Sorry.
Jul 17th - Road to Justice League - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Review
Jul 20th - Raiders of the Lost Media - Bully (Original Uncut Version)
Jul 22nd - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Review
Jul 24th - Cinematic Disasters - Foodfight
Jul 27th - Underrated Films - Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Review
Jul 29th - The Emoji Movie Review
NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.
There's a very creepy scene where Lady X is in a sexy schoolgirl uniform and she seduces Dax. Yes a woman is seducing a dog. The whole movie is riddled with blatant and obvious sexual innuendos. There's also a scene where Daredevil Dan gets hit on by Vlad Chocool a very gay vampire mascot for a brand of cereal. If this was a good movie all of these innuendos would have been snuck in here and done in a clever way but this is Foodfight where nothing is done right.
None absolutely none of the humor in Foodfight works. Each and every joke never lands it mark or your just scratching your head wondering what was I suppose to laugh at that? It doesn't help that film relys heavily on slapstick, bad puns, and every predictable lowbrow joke you can think of!
The movie has probably the cheeses opening theme song I've have ever heard. The song is called It's Our World. It's one of those songs that try way too hard to be whimsical.
The world that Foodfight has built is just a mess. It's starts out simple enough the lights in the supermarket go out then the ikes' world appears. But then there's a scene where Mr. Clipboard throws a bag of chips on the ground and stomps on it then a different bag of chips see that and swears vengeance. So is that how the ikes' see what's going on in our world? Then it gets more confusing because then Dax and Dan go to find out what Brand X's evil plan is and their in the real world without the supermarket's lights being out. So what was the point of the light idea if later on the film showed us it's pointless.
There are many other problems with this film but I just wanted to tell you the big ones. So let's move on to my rating.
Foodfight has a corny opening song, hideous animation, awful jokes, terrible names for our characters, sexual innuendos that are way too inappropriate for kids, a confusing moral lesson, and continuity errors to how the ikes' world works.
My final rating for this movie is Destroy It!
So this was an awful experience but there is some good news. On Thursday I'll have a new segment on The Michael Project called Underrated Films. It's were I look at good movies that deserve way more love than what they got and since tomorrow Batman: Mask of the Phantasm will finally get a Blu-ray release it will be the first movie I review.
State of The Project (Jul 10th - Jul 29th)
Jul 10th - Spider-Man: Homecoming Easter Eggs
Jul 13th - No War for the Planet of the Apes Review. Sorry.
Jul 17th - Road to Justice League - Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Review
Jul 20th - Raiders of the Lost Media - Bully (Original Uncut Version)
Jul 22nd - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets Review
Jul 24th - Cinematic Disasters - Foodfight
Jul 27th - Underrated Films - Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Review
Jul 29th - The Emoji Movie Review
NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.
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