It’s part “Frankenstein”, part “The Nightmare Before Christmas” rip-off. But the problem with “Igor” is: none of the parts fit.
John Cusack stars as the voice of Igor, a hunchback who has spent his life, like all the other Igors…doing the grunt work for an evil scientist. But this Igor wants TO BE an evil scientist, and enter and win the annual Science Fair. So he creates what he hopes will be an evil monster, but instead his creation turns out to be nice.
There are a lot of problems with the film: First of all, it’s not very funny. I only laughed twice during the entire movie and there wasn’t much laughing coming from the audience at the screening I was at. Also, the animation is not great. This is another animated movie where the voices and the mouths don’t work together. How come Disney, Dreamworks and Blue Sky are the only studios that can create animated movies where the mouths and voices work together?
And the story is flat. There’s nothing to really care about, including all of the characters. Plus the movie is loud, crude and often mean and violent. When I saw it in the theater when it came out last Fall I was told that several people asked for a refund after one of the showings because their kids were too scared. I say “Igor” is not appropriate for children 7 and under, but kids of any age shouldn’t see it because it just isn’t very good.
On “The Official Kid Critic Report Card”, “Igor” gets a D+.
If you want to see a slightly-scary, funny, charming, animated movie with a lot of heart, watch “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” instead of “Igor”.