Igor trailer

Posted by Chris

May 8, 2008

I was a bit hard on the Weinstein Co. when the poster for Igor, their computer-animated kids flick was released. I basically surmised the movie wouldn’t get the support it needed to become a hit and so why were they even bothering.

But I like this trailer for the movie quite a bit. The movie is about Igor. Or, more specifically, an Igor. See this society of scientists comes comes complete with a lower caste of Igors that exist as laboratory assistants and switch-pullers. But this Igor wants to be an inventor himself, setting up what amounts to a class struggle.

Like I said I like it more than I was expecting to. But that doesn’t mean I wasn’t thinking of Young Frankenstein the entire time. If the filmmakers were able to work in a Marty Feldman look-alike character or even just include a line about how the “rates have gone up” from previous generations my estimation of the movie would go up even higher.