Never having read the comic book, I wasn't particularly familiar with the concept of El Superbeasto, but I decided to buy the DVD movie from Amazon simply because it was a Rob Zombie production.I am assuming that this is an acquired taste, whether you will like it or not. I wasn't particularly loving this cartoon. Sure it had its moments, but it was nowhere near Rob Zombie's previous movies.The story in "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" came off a rather irrelevant to me. There wasn't any particular greater coherent meaning to it. And that had me dozing off a couple of times along the way.Now, the cartoon had stuff working out in its favor as well. Especially the impressive list of people on the voice cast. There was really some nice actors/actresses on the list here, and thumbs up for that. What had to be the best moment in the entire feature was when Otis Driftwood (voiced by Bill Moseley) and Captain Spaulding (voiced by Sid Haig) showed up. Even for just that short a moment, it totally made it worthwhile. But also Dr. Satan (voiced by Paul Giamatti) made the story worthwhile to sit through.The way the cartoon made fun of itself and other cartoons was good.The Nazi zombies made the movie bearable as well, because, come on, I mean zombie Nazis just make everything much more fun. There is something oddly interesting about that combination. And it was a nice touch with all the iconic movie monsters making cameo appearances throughout the movie.I doubt that I will be popping this DVD in the player a second time, it just didn't really leave a lasting impression on me, unlike Rob Zombie's previous movies (especially "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects").Oh, and a word of warning, there is a lot of nudity (albeit animated) in this feature, and also lots of violence and somewhat what might be considered improper language by some. So you might not want to watch this if you are particularly sensitive to such things.

This animated film is categorized as a horror film. What makes it this is that it has cameos from many horror monsters and a lot of gore. Other than that, it is not a typical horror film. But that doesn't mean it wasn't great. The movie was very funny and had a lot of great moments. But you have to like this type of film. It is very crude. The voice over cast was amazing. Tom Papa was excellent as El Superbeasto. Brian Posehn was great as the horny robot named Murray. Then you have the character Dr. Satan played by Paul Giamatti. The director of the film was Rob Zombie. So he casted his wife and a few other people from some of his various films. There is also voice cameos from actors that were in old horror films. Like I said, this film really has the voice cast. The story was fun and cheesy and all the action made it possible to enjoy it from start to finish. If you like crude humor, this is a pretty funny film to watch.

I can take or leave Rob Zombie. Some of his movies like "House of 1000 Corpses" and "Devils Rejects" were tons of fun. On the other hand his remake of "Halloween" just put the zombie spin on a classic that was better in its original form. So I had an open mind when I started to watch (I say this because I stopped watching half way through) El Superbesto. This is a boring cartoon with obvious gags and gratuitous sex and violence in cartoon form that starts to put you to sleep after the first 10 times that it's done in the movie. Basically, this is Cartoon Network with a "R" rating and it bored me to death (in fact I actually put on Cartoon Network afterward so I could watch some quality animation. Rob stick with the horror and leave the animation and comedy to the professionals.

I borrowed a copy of this after two of my close friends who usually share the same tastes in film swore that this was a must-see. Goes to show that sometimes, even those that you seem to have everything in common with, will sometimes steer you wrong. The convoluted plot of this un-funny mess of a cartoon revolves around a washed-up, Luchador-masked wrestler, his sexy sister crime-fighting side-kick, her perpetually horny robot side-kick, a very white looking stripper who annoyingly talks like she's from the 'hood, a devil-faced megalomaniacal reject with small-man's-syndrome who's infatuated with said annoying stripper, his talking ape side-kick, some Nazi-zombies, and a bunch of other stupid characters. Throw them all in a blender with some retarded and/or seemingly 'racy' scenarios-and you have THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO. I'm not a Rob Zombie hater. I like most of his films-a few I don't. This is one that I obviously don't. I found nothing amusing about the 7th-grade humor and found nothing interesting or entertaining about the film in general. I found the whole film to be an exercise in tedium that took me three sittings to finish. I can't knock anyone who genuinely enjoyed this one-I'm definitely in the minority amongst my peers-but watching EL SUPERBEASTO was like watching a feature-length fart-joke...funny for the first two minutes-dull and mind-numbing any longer than that. Don't get me wrong-I revel in sleazy, sexy, gory, subversive films (read virtually any of my reviews for proof...)-but even Nazi-zombies and robots with gear-shift wieners couldn't save this one for me. 2/10