Magic

First of all, I'm all for intelligent comedy. Witty dialouge is great, as are well thought out comedic set pieces. However, I have no problem in saying that stupid comedy is probably the best for sheer "OMG I almost fell out of my computer chair laughing and bashed my head" type comedic value. Enter "Magic", probably it would be better titled "The Effects of Substance-Abuse on Movie Making", because I seriously find it hard to believe that the director wasn't on something when he made this. Either way, the result is one of the most laugh-out-loud hilarious 3dmm movies I've ever seen. Welcome to randomness perfected. Brad Ross is a comedic genious, and this movie is NEVER leaving my hard drive.

The obligatory "storyline explanation" paragraph would normally go here, but really there's nothing to explain. It starts by introducing the main character, a guy who proclaims himself as "THE KILLAH!"- what follows is a movie about newspaper-reading dwarves, robots who protect deserts for no apparant reason, brief moments of philisophical pondering ("Why's the BARK of a tree called the BARK of a tree? Why aren't the leaves called MEOWS?"), and squeaky carrot boys. Don't ask me. Even more confusing is how the movie ends up being so freaking unbelievably entertaining. I mean...HOW? This is one of those rare movies where every single joke hits the mark, and considering how many jokes there are and how long this movie is, that's saying A LOT. Saying that you will laugh your ass off the first time you view this movie doesn't even do it justice.

All that said though, you do need to have a high threshold for stupidity to really enjoy it and for it to not just come off as annoying. The main character talks in a constant yell, and draws out every one of his words ridicuosly long. It's like he goes out of his way to annoy the hell out of you with every sentence, but in doing so becomes one of the funniest, most memorable characters in 3dmm history. Every line he says is funny, and it's not just him- this movie is a veritable voice acting showcase for Brad Ross, who plays up every character as much as he can for cheap laughs regarding their exaggerated voices. I can't give away too much, because the utter pointlessness of this movie is half of what makes it so funny! So many hilarious lines come out of absolutely no where!

Technically, this movie is a mixed bag. It goes back and forth between newb-ish crap animation and the unbelievably fluid cartoony stuff you might see in a "Dominator Dan" movie (just check out the fight between "Gronthor" and the Killer, back when this was released it was mind-blowing). But even the bad animation isn't there because the director couldn't do any better at that moment- it's all played up for laughs, which it gets...in spades. Very similiar is the sound category. The music is well chosen and the voice acting is side-splittingly hilarious. However, there are times when certain voices are extremely hard to understand, however, this also is the movie's way of getting a laugh out of you, with "THE KILLAH!" constantly pleading with people to repeat themselves, all while obnoxiously yelling in their faces and going into spasms across the screen. It sounds so utterly moronic, and it is, but that's also why it's so damn funny. The movie has a mind numbing quality to it, where eventually the thinking just stops and all you can do is laugh and enjoy yourself.

This movie is so hard to rate. All of it's faults- the annoying and often too loud and hard-to-hear voices, the sometimes extremely pathetic animation, the non-existant storyline- only prove to add to its comedic value, and I wouldn't have it any other way. It probably says something about me when I say that this is possibly my favorite 3dmm movie I've ever seen, something I'd much rather not think about. So, at the risk of instantaneously losing ALL of my credibility as a reviewer, I give this braindead jaunt into the realm of stupid randomness a 90% out of 100%. If this movie never sees a sequal, it will be one of the greatest injustices mankind has ever known (LISTEN UP BRAD).