Rating of
2/4
It's No 'Wallace & Gromit'
Unknown - wrote on 01/11/16
An R-rated claymation comedy that takes place in Hell. This sounds immediately intriguing. Well, it definitely earns the R-rating. Most of the comedy comes from a great amount of profanity and lower forms of sexual references. For once, this kind of thing didn't annoy me. I found some of the dialogue to be creative. They weren't just throwing four letter words around constantly for the sake of it. There's a craft to the material that one could admire. This is a whimsical fantasy adventure type of story. In that regard, it does pretty much everything you'd expect. The voice cast is solid and the animation is just below 'Wallace & Gromit' level good. No hard negatives per-say, only the areas of missed opportunity. I chuckled continuously, but never found any big laughs or memorable gags. It's clever in it's crass ways, leaving out other areas of comedy that could come from the setting. It was missing a visual sense of humor. It felt as if you could've done this story in live action and it would all be the same. No advantage is gained by the animation route. It was an entertaining watch overall, but falls short of it's potential.
