http://cache.io9.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png http://io9.com/tag/igor http://io9.com/tag/igor The Baron Janos makes love to a servant girl, while nearby a lady scientist wanders downstairs and reads up on werewolves. But is the thing that kills the servant girl, immediately after sex, a werewolf or something else? It's NSFW. More »
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In the kingdom of Malaria, where new CGI kids' flick Igor takes place, the weather has changed. The once-sunny farmlands are now shrouded in a permanent, toxic rainstorm and everyone has become poor. At least, until King Malbert comes along and reinvents the economy by instructing everyone to build evil machines they'll unleash on the rest of the world — unless the world pays them off. The world quakes in fear and showers Malaria with money. It's a wee liberal parable about the U.S. economy, whose industries pump toxins into the atmosphere and menace the world with high-tech weapons. And what will save the world from the nasty, bad U.S.? Hollywood show business! Spoilers and political allegory ahead . . . More »
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Igor's writer Chris McKenna and director Tony Leondis talk about the balance they tried to achieve while making a comedy/horror film. Can you make a suicidal rabbit funny? I say hell yes. In a video interview together they address the concerns for making Igor both happy and scary in an exclusive clip. Igor is in theaters this Friday. More »
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Ever since Jennifer Coolidge played Stifler's Mom many have fantasized about watching her bend and snap. Now the world's first MILF is providing the voices for the dark CG animated film Igor, playing the bad girl that slaps around the help (the Igors) plus a big-lipped Swede. We spoke with Coolidge and she told us the one thing you can't say in a kids movie, even when one of the characters continually commits suicide. Plus she told us all about the relationship between a big girl and a little guy. Also, we have some spoilery clips from Igor below. More »
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Spoiler alert! New videos from Watchmen include a look at psycho-hero Rorschach unmasked. There are also new Clone Wars videos and new hints about Terminator 4 and Iron Man 2. And new images from Igor and Dragonball. We have a ton of new Heroes spoilers, including an intriguing Kristen Bell development. Also on the TV tip, there are revealing Fringe videos, and hints about Doctor Who, Sarah Connor, Smallville and the animated Wonder Woman DVD. I say again, spoiler alert! More »
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For the first time ever, two animated science fiction movies will open the same day, this Friday. Of course, Star Wars: Clone Wars will smush the flies-in-space epic Fly Me To The Moon like... well, like a bug. But this animated traffic jam is still significant, because of what it signals: the rise of animated science fiction from a minor subgenre to a full-blown genre in its own right, complete with a range of competing styles. More »
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A new poster for Igor (at Cinematical) shows more of the animated movie's supporting cast, including Scamper, Igor's roadkill Franken-bunny, and Brain, a scatter-brained brain in a jar. I'm not sure who this hunchback-who-wants-to-be-a-mad-scientist movie is going to appeal to, but since it's coming out in September and there's been almost no marketing so far, I suspect the question answers itself. And yet it has Johns Cusack and Cleese, and could be a great film. Click through for a new plot synopsis. More »
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Every mad scientist's favorite whipping boy is taking a stand. It's the 51st annual science fair, in a land where the population is made up of both evil and mad scientists. But the people that do all the work with no reward are the "Igors." The main character Igor (voiced by John Cusack) thinks it's high time that an Igor gets a chance to outwit the scientists in their own competition. Check out the trailer and see Igor's awesome science project. Plus there's a primer on how to talk to your Igor in a politically correct manner. More »
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