Mad God

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Andy K Surreal, nightmarish epic. Like a dream. Stunning moviegoing experience Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/14/24 Full Review Justin K One off the coolest movies i have ever watched Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 11/03/24 Full Review Jay A Amazing art, lack of a plot, but it appears to be about creation, war and death. Disgusting sounds and scenes. Hard to watch. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/29/24 Full Review tyler h No plot, and some of the worst sound design I've ever heard. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 10/20/24 Full Review Michael Antony A Mikey’s Film Review: Mad God (2022) American film director and VFX supervisor Phil Tippett (73) has been one of Hollywood’s most prolific artists for almost 50 years. Specializing in creature design, stop-motion and computerized character animation he has worked with the likes of ILM and Dreamworks on such films as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones sagas, Piranha, Dragonslayer, Howard The Duck, RoboCop, Willow, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Jurassic Park, Dragonheart, Starship Troopers, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Twilight Saga and most recently, Alien: Romulus. Founding his own Tippett Studio in 1984. Mad God is his 85 minute, mostly stop-motion labour of love that took 30 years to complete, was released in 2022, is now finally available to stream. I say ‘mostly’ because cult director Alex Cox (Repo Man) appears in a handful of live action scenes. Considering Tippett’s legacy it’s surprising then that the film, while fascinating and at times truly impressive, is possibly a ‘one time watch and done’ experience. Let down by a somewhat meandering, nonsensical narrative. A masked figure from an Earth like world at war drops from the sky in a diving bell and descends into a Dante-like Hell. As we travel deeper and deeper through a cruel, miserable underworld of horrors, the figure (named in the credits as The Assassin) simply watches and tries to avoid the large monstrous creatures that dwell there. Each more terrifying than the next, who’s only reason to exist seems to be to torture, squash, flay, stomp, burn and devour the smaller thin faceless humanoid like creatures… while other entities are simply killed, liquified and fed to a further disparate array of grotesques! Masterbating dolls, perverse mutilation and an extremely visceral autopsy (to retrieve a maggot like baby) are probably not required viewing for the average animation fan! Although admittedly, there’s also a macabre playfullness here too that will delight some while repulsing others. I’ve never seen or experienced anything quite like Mad God. Unsettling but infinitely inventive. My favourite stop-motion film - the goulish A Nightmare Before Christmas is laughably tame in comparison… If you’ve ever been thrilled by Tippett’s previous work you might want to take a look. But, you have been warned - it’s not for the faint at heart!😅 Mikey’s Film Rating: 3/5* Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/05/24 Full Review Millie T This film sucks, has no essence or intention. Made to indulge in gore, and make "meaningful" statements, for what gain????? It's all meaningless! Lifeless stuffed corpse of a film, taxidermy. The frustrating thing is that so much effort went into it, but it was completely misguided. to clarify I am not averse to gore, or horror, but there needs to be some kind of juice. So much skillful model making, and yet no vision? Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/15/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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