Wednesday, January 14, 2009

'Igor 2008'


The Story

Igors exist only to serve mad scientists; it's just a fact of life. If you're born with a hunchback, you are automatically subservient to some sort of crazy professor/scientist dude. But one Igor (voiced by Cusack) has bigger plans than simply obeying his dim-witted boss every time he orders a switch to be thrown. This Igor's an inventor just waiting for an opportunity to step into the limelight.

Said opportunity presents itself when his boss is killed by one of his own experiments. Finally Igor and the creatures he's created -– the low-wattage Brain (Hayes) who's not nearly as intelligent as he believes himself to be (he misspelled his own name, scrawling Brian across his cranium in permanent marker) and Scamper (Buscemi), an indestructible rabbit with a death wish -– have their chance to compete in the annual Evil Science Fair. And Igor knows exactly what will earn him first place. He's been slaving over the design of a gigantic evil woman and believes it'll be just the ticket to win first place.

he pieces her together, zaps the creature with electricity, and voila! she rises. But her evil bone is dysfunctional and everything that could go wrong, goes wrong. She's not evil -– she's Eva (Shannon), a prissy giant who loves blind orphans, flowers, and ultimately decides she's a dainty actress headed for Broadway. That sort of attitude isn't going to win an evil tournament, and as Igor stresses out over how to win he, of course, learns a massive amount of important life lessons.

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