Quest for the WORST Movie Part 15: Foodfight!

Oh boy.

In this quest I knew there would be some dark places I would be going. There were going to be some REALLY BAD movies I’d be watching by myself or with victims (people who are “lucky” enough to be with me on parts of this quest).

This has got to be one of the lowest lows that there has to be…. FOODFIGHT!

If you look at the details of this movie, you would expect something cheesy….and for the kids…but with what looks like a great cast you think it would be something of high calbur, maybe a treat you’d never forget.

Well….if you watch it you most certainly won’t forget it. I know I won’t.

The movie is based in a supermarket where there logos basically come to life and do things, but then the evil Brand X comes along and tries to take over. So yes, you have a typical battle of good verses evil, and you do even have a Foodfight (roll credits…um, will I get sued by Cinema Sins? Sorry guys, love your work, kisses!).

But….

This movie is absolutely awful on pretty much every level that you could imagine….and I’m not kidding. The animation is awful, the lip sync is atrocious, the storyline is so cheesy it could be used for fondue and it also feels that it should be for adults and not for kids. When people say that this is the worst animated feature they’re not wrong. But, there are reasons why this happened.

Back in the mists and dawns of history (oh OK…only back as far as 1997) there were plans for an animated movie featuring several logos/characters from big brands. Chester Cheetah, Mr Sheen, Energizer Bunny, Mr Pringles and more were to feature. No, this movie wasn’t just a bid promotion for all this products (no, really….I know, right? ) but an amazing movie for kids and adults alike. When everything was getting done and it was slated for a Christmas 2003 release, this epic movie was going to make Threshold Animation Studios “The next Pixar” apparently.

Then “disaster” struck.

The movie was about 60% complete when the companies hard drives were apparently stolen and Threshold cried industrial sabotage. I personally find this rather suspicious as there appears there was no backups….this is one thing you ALWAYS do (although saying that there was a time when Pixar almost lost an entire movie due to not backing up…or so they thought).

The movie had to be made from scratch and was given a “live action” approach which is totally different from the original from the original version of the movie….and it was rushed and slap dash, after all most of the budget had been used up on licencing products, mascots, actors (they had people like Charlie Sheen, Hilary Duff, Eva Longoria and Christopher Lloyd) and production. They’d hoped to have to have the movie ready by 2005 but that never happened, finally being released in 2012 after the assets were sold to Boulevard Entertainment.

The trailers and footages that can be seen in various places shows a totally different type of animated movie so maybe it would have been something completely different something that was really good, average… Or at least better than what we have now…. But sadly I guess we will never ever know, which is a pity.

What we did get as I say was totally bizarre. There were scenes that bordered on R-rated with how sexual they were, the lip sync was rubbish, the animation was awful and the story was pretty much non-existent. It makes you wonder how true the rumours that this movie was a front for mafia laundering was.

Anyway, if you REALLY want to see this movie it’s amazingly rated PG and available on DVD.