The land of Malaria was once a sunny happy place, but then the sunny days ended. The economy collapsed and the king decided on a new economy of evil inventions. Igor (John Cusack) wants to be more than the stereotypical assistant to his worthless master Dr. Glickenstein (John Cleese). He wants to create his own evil inventions.The animation is bright despite the fact that the sun never shines. It's very cartoonish while trying to create some smarter material. The problem I had is that I didn't love the characters. I get the sarcastic spin on the traditional fantasy. It doesn't make them lovable. John Cusack just doesn't have the voice. It doesn't match the cartoon. While I understand that they intentionally created an opposite Igor, it's just hard to see Cusack in that role.

When I first heard about a CGI movie being made called "Igor", I was pretty excited--it sounded pretty cool and the publicity photos looked interesting. Yet, despite this, I never got around to seeing this in the theater. Now that I just saw it on Showtime, I am thrilled that I never got around to spending my hard-earned cash on this very limp film.The film starts well enough--you learn that 'Igors' are a group of assistants who get educated on how to be the perfect assistants for mad scientists. They are to blindly obey, have no creative thoughts of their own and have no real purpose other than to serve. Oddly, however, the Igor of the film's title is different. He wants to become a mad scientist himself and secretly has been experimenting--creating a dumb talking brain in a jar as well as an indestructible rabbit who is suicidal. Now, his ultimate creation, a giant female monster is about to be unleashed--all it needs is for Igor to push the switch and send a bazillion volts into her to bring her to life. But, sadly, she turns out to be very nice--and who would give this the award for the upcoming mad scientist science fair?! And, on top of that, a truly evil mad scientist is bent on stealing this invention for himself.The film is a very unusual CGI movie artistically. The CG is unusual but also not particularly pretty--looking a generation behind some of the other CGI movies that debuted in 2008. It's a style that you'll either love or hate--and I hated it. However, the CG was the least of the film's problems. The story simply is bad. As a children's movie, it's really unacceptable for younger audiences as it's pretty violent--with some nasty deaths and language issues. As a film for adults, the story seems pretty dumb. Case in point--the entire end of the film--which an incomprehensible mess involving the nice monster becoming mean and destroying everything while dressed like Annie and singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow"!! So would I recommend this film? No. But I guess for ages 10-12 it's not too bad--anyone younger shouldn't see it and anyone older would be shocked by the incomprehensible lameness.

this animated film is sort of a riff on the original Frankenstein film.but it adds its own elements to the mix.it is entertaining and has some amusing moments,but it's not what i would call hysterical.there's romance angle which works well here.and there are a few good action sequences.the whole thing is only about 81 minutes(minus the end credits)but it does drag a bit at times.the voice work is excellent though.i was particularly surprised to find that Jay Leno voiced one of the characters.he did a really good job.and it's not the character you might think.overall,though i liked the movie,i can't say it was stellar.it passed the time for 81 minutes,and like i said has some amusing moments.for me,Igor is a 6/10

Igor relies solely on childish humor and sucky jokes. And most of the characters are annoying. Scamper, Brain, and The Orfans are the only characters I can stand. Igor is a child living in a grown man's body. The Jennifer Coolage character is just basically a talking background character as he never really does anything important to the plot. the Annie jokes later in the movie are mostly just filler material.And it's obsessed with Insaulting Apes much like Tak & The Power of Juju, Squrriel Boy, & The Mighty B!. In a scary scene I saw, That one Ape Robot or whatever that thing is said to the titled character (Igor) that He going to use his hump as a speed bump!' A different scene had The same Gorilla villain robot thing asking that Igor's master that he didn't create LIFE!!? I was not at all impressed with this that villain. The humor was juvenile, the characters are stupid, and the story completely predictable.BOO!!!!! FIN