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Terror Toons

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4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(25)

 

 

Oh my god...to all you reviewers who put 2 stars or less and suggested people not see this...I ask you humbly for your most sincere apologies. I did not heed to your warnings and now...part of me is gone...part of me will never return...

You know in Mystery Science Theater 3000 when our heroes say a movie hurts them? I always thought they were just kidding, but now I know perfectly what they mean. This movie HURT me. It did. I would rather hit Omaha Beach with a pea shooter and bright orange uniform than watch this movie again.

I don't know what kind of cartoons this Joe Castro guy watched as a kid, but I don't remember any thing like this. Even cheap French cartoons don't get as bad as this...and might I add the two main villains ARE NOT CARTOONS! They're guys in rubber suits! And what little they do animate is awful. I'm at an art college, and I do things for class projects that have come out better animated than what these guys did. The special affects in this makes the giant insect films of the 1950's look like "Jurassic Park."

The music got god-awful annoying after a while. At first I was like, "Cool, its like a poor man's Danny Elfman." I quickly learned the err of my judgement. They play the theme through out the whole movie, almost nonstop. Its the same damn two notes over and over and over and over and over and over again. This is accompanied by the Doctor's constant cackling, which is also just as nonstop. These two sounds combined make a soundtrack you can easily slit your wrists to.

But you know what? This whole movie never ends. It just won't end! At one point I thought to myself "My god when is this thing over?" only to look at my DVD info and find out I had only gone 30 minutes in. They drag every scene out into oblivion, presenting one continuous bad joke to another. The plot of the devil using cartoons is all well but not done in this way. Its kind of a silly plot too...the devil wants to use Saturday morning cartoons to kill people. This was obviously under the assumption people still watched Saturday morning cartoons.

My pondering about the guy that made this thing was answered looking at the special features ("special" being a choice word). The opening interview with Joe Castro has him talking about his film:

"How'd I get the cast from Terror Toons? The cast of Terror Toons is like...you know when I look at Terror Toons I look at the cast of of every body you know...you know...its been about a year since we made the movie...every body seems to have gone on and done other things..."

Wow, with such a great stream of consciousness I'm amazed he could even write a script, let alone combine letters to form words.

Don't see this movie. No. Don't. Just trust me. You'll go through the pain I did. No, don't even see it if you like bad movies. This isn't "funny ha ha" its "funny oh my brain is melting." Don't see it. Just trust me. Don't watch it. I'm serious. Please. I'll die happy knowing I've spared other souls. Don't see the movie. Don't.

OK, one question in this review: Were you a fan of Mystery Science Theatre 3000?

Those who answered no, hit back, there's NO way you'll want to even TOUCH This video.

If you answered yes, I recommend renting this movie - only buying it if you want to drive friends crazy when they stop by from out of town. The gore in this that's much hyped is SO laughable in it's attempt to be over the top, that's not much of a factor unless someone is really bothered by it - for example, whenever anything 'gory' happens that MIGHT look disturbing, they hold the camera on it for 5-10 seconds to provide "maximum gore" level. The problem with this is that, simply put, effects fall apart when you study them too closely! You'll see the brains are oatmeal, that the top of someone's head that just got carved off is quite obviously a hat, as is the exposed brain which is obviously liver, etc.

Why do you want this movie then? Because it's so bad, it's good. NOTE: IT IS BEST WATCHED IN A GROUP SETTING! We had a blast ripping the movie to pieces as it progressed, steadily getting more and more ridiculas. Even the VHS version has the behind the scenes section, which is great - it repeats the same scenes over and over and when they ask people if they like how the movie came out, they ACTUALLY pause and think about it for seconds before trying to lie their way out of it.

You also get the classic moment where one of the actress likens one of the special effects experiences to her previous role in a movie titled ... In fact, that about sums up the whole movie: Gore porn. There's less than 4 seconds of actual nudity but the acting, video quality, sound quality, plausability - that's pretty much what it seems like.

So rent this movie, turn down the lights, and watch it all the way through - the Brain Damaged trailers really set the mood with the awfulness, too, so don't skip them!!

I love independent film, love it, I can sit through just about anything, even ANKLE BITERS. I'm not even taking budget into account,a good idea and a competant script even worth writing let alone filming are free. This piece of crap had to stop I didn't even finish watching it, thank god I had enough where-with-all to not destoy the disc, thank god I only rented this piece of crap. DO NOT BUY THIS, DON'T RENT THIS, DON'T EVEN LOOK AT IT AT THE VIDEO STORE, DON'T FINISH READING THIS REVIEW, just close your browser and walk anway from your computer and try to forget that you even heard about this movie. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE SO-BAD-IT'S-GOOD MOVIES IT'S INSULTING TO HUMANITY.
p.s. I gave it one star because amazon makes you give atleast one star

I took a gamble and bought this from the $5 bin at Block Buster.
Ever since, I have given up gambling for good.
Thank you, $5 bin. You have shown me the light.

This movie is beyond any other B movie about cartoon killers you will ever see! When the film starts the Introduction itself is so out there that you just want to watch more. While the plot drags your annoyed mind through more and more holes and creative slayings you begin to kinda like it....I guess. The characters on one hand made me want to watch it the most. The mother and father of the two daughters they leave behind for the weekend are very animated. The mother is a Drag Queen and the Father is the guy from the impitent commercial with the smile.
The daughters are clearly porn stars, I mean who would have a name like Lizzie Borden anyways? LOL!

If you are trying to go through every movie in the horror section at your local video store, then there is no need to pass this one by.

I didn't hate it, but the movie didn't excite me either. I thought the concept was pretty good (Killer Cartoons and Satan trying to rule the world). The acting was good enough for this type of movie. The effects were nothing special, but done well enough.

As a creative folk, this is the type of movie that makes you think "Hey, I can make one too." In the DVD Extras it says it was made for ~$2300. Given that budget they did a great job.

As a business man, I really appreciate that the producers were able to make (basically) a student film and then get it distributed nationally. I'm sure they doubled their money.

My one comment, needs more nudity.

I'm so confused. Was this movie SUPPOSED to be scary and gory? Or was it supposed to be funny? Because it was none of the above. You know when something is SO bad that it becomes funny? Well this movie was SO bad that it went way past the funny level, and caused immense feelings of disturbance and rage. I wanted to hurt someone or myself after watching this. Whoever says this movie is gory must have half a brain. The peoples guts that were being ripped out was clearly cooked spaghetti and lentils. I couldnt believe what I was seeing. It also didnt help that during every "gory" part all u hear is the Mad Doctor's irritating, shrill, corny laughter, a bicycle horn honking, and morphed circus music playing, accompanied by the purple Gorilla jumping around like a moron making stupid Chimp skreechy noises in the background. (I have a monkey plush toy with the EXACT sound effect as the gorilla sidekick..honest) This movie was so low budget and..well just bad. I'm all for independent and undeground films. But this was worse something u would see on your local cable access television show. The "special effects" were ridiculous. Remember computers in the 80s and early 90s? Try to think of the Print Shop program and all of their marvelous graphics. Those are the graphics that were used. Sorry to be a spoiler, but when someone was cut apart, they appropriately copy and pasted an image of a cartoon vulture. The vulture was a still picture, no movements at all. Who would have enough self esteem to add their names to the credits of this piece of garbage? The devil apparently. (yes it says made by The Devil in the opening credits) I mean, I'm ashamed of myself for having watched the entire thing. The previews before seeing this movie were priceless gems also. One movie has Ron Jeremy in it (whats with all the porn stars in these movies??). Another one is called Carnage: The Legend of Quiltface. These people put out a movie about a mass murderer named Quiltface. Need I say more?? Normally I would say don't rent this movie, however I kind of want the rest of the world to experience what my friend and I did. We had a good time ripping on it, but in the end it just left us hollow shells of human beings. We will never recover.

Whoa! What was that movie I just wasted 100 minutes of my life on? I honestly felt drained of all intelligence for several hours after watching this "movie". 3 days? It shouldn't have taken more than a shift at work to make that film! The scariest part of the film was when it started and I realized what I had gotten into. Who's bright idea was it to actually put this schlock onto DVD? Did they honestly think that better clarity and sound would help it? Oh well, at least I'vve seen the bottom of the barrel now and I can get on with my life!

This movie is funny,corny, stupid and gory AND NOT AT ALL TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLEY which all wroks well for this film. Dont expect something serious just something ridiculous.

A couple of satanic cartoon characters are released into a house hold from a cartoon dvd delivered to the house by Satan. These 2 cartoon characters are there to kill who ever possible.In all sorts of cartoonish ways.

The acting is bad but to the point where you will keep watching, the gore is definitly there and not bad at all.The 2 daughters must be porn stars as some else stated, when you see you will be able to tell why. The plot it self is funny as the 2 cartoon killers are definitly hmorous.

To watch this you got to have an open mind on what it is. Its not really a horror movie just quit funny, silly and gorey, just watch it to have fun, that is all, and enjoy it for what it is.

A destined cult classic, I dont know ** MAYBE ***, but a film that should be viewed by horror fans that have an open mind and can watch something as ridiculous as this and enjoy it I did. Its just fun and humorous.With some very bad acting.

Also if you are willing to see this then you should check out " Meet the Feebles" ( Direcyed by Peter Jackson ) or if you already saw it then you will be able to enjoy this, cause you must be open minded to watch a movie that contains no human chgaratrers just puppets.

This movie is neat. The acting blows my mind. Also, rubber monkies and scary. I love when movies go nowhere and the story consists of people in a room somewhere find 2 rubber things and kill them and a man delivers a pizza then a superhero talks to satan and breaks a machine. All in only 2 hours. I was on the edge of my seat. not really. This movie made me attempt suicide.