Foodfight!

So yesterday Mary Beth and I watched nothing less than Foodfight!. You can even watch it streaming here if you want. Well, there's a lot one could say about this movie. First, it cost $65,000,000. It was delayed for well over 10 years (probably because it's quite possibly the worst fucking movie ever made). It's computer animated, like Pixar except incompetent on every level conceivable. You can't blame the delay in its relase for the shitty quality of animation, I mean it was started a decade after Toy Story. I mean, the most noticeable thing about it is just how unbelievably awful the animation is. There's no cohesive character design (except ugly, maybe). Different character have different levels of resolution. Movement is jerky and spastic. Overall it looks like a bad N64 game. Acting, I guess a portion of the insane budget went towards getting pretty well known actors. Whoever the actor is, everyone's working significantly below whatever passes for their normal standard of quality. Half of them are using weird voices that don't make sense and quite a few mumble through their lines incoherently. Okay, it's supposed to be a kids' movie and all and yet there's a weird level of filthiness pervading. There's one ejaculation joke for example. And the gay bat that keeps hitting on the chocolate squirrel. There's the whole Nazi thing and the weird making the main character (oh yeah, his name is Dogtective) a Jew randomly at the end I guess to drive home something with the whole theme something? The entire thing, on every level from script writing to acting to directing to main concept to animation is lazy and confused. They keep playing on Casablanca references randomly and Dogtective oscillates in garb between Bogart and Indiana Jones. His love interest is a little girl that happens to have cat ears and weird whisker marks on her face. She's a raison "icon" for some reason (they actually call the brand icons "ikes"in the movie). Oh, and the main character doesn't actually seem to represent any product at all. Oh, and the most detestable thing about the movie possibly is the overarching theme of corporate brands representing individuality and freedom that must defend itself agaisnt the fascism of generic, cost-saving brands. Okay, it's all in a grocery store at night when the brands come to life. Also worth noting that when they come to life in this grocery store at night that in no way resembles a grocery store but a town with a random assortment of buildings. Oh and I guess the hook of the movie was going to be a buttload of corporate sponsorship as they got a bunch of brand mascots to be in the movie (though never main characters). It's quite fascinating how atrocious this movie is. At first I wasn't sure if I didn't get as much laughter out of merely watching the trailer as all 90 minutes, but after watching the whole thing you're able to unpack so much more. It also helps resonate the fact that around sixty-five million dollars were spent on this thing. Is there anything else to bring up about it? I feel there is, but my brain seems to be turning to mush again.