Igor
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
Warm, breathless, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A cliché hunchbacked evil scientist's assistant aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
Our read · Igor (2008) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Igor
What watching it is actually like.
“You want goofy animated mad-science comedy with a sweet monster who wants to act.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if dated CGI and juvenile villain gags will grate on you tonight.
The reading.
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