Review of The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009) by M N — 25 Jul 2010

Rob Zombie. I remember when he was the guy who did the entire soundtrack to Twisted Metal, then the guy whom I rocked out to, and then that guy that couldn't make a movie right if you gave him an entire movie and just wanted a different spin on it. Oh, right. They DID do that, and while the first Halloween remake wasn't a disaster the second was an absolute waste of time.

For The Haunted World of El Superbeasto I really did expect more. What kind of more? I don't know. More laughs, more enjoyment, more of something that would make this more than a way to pass the time on a dull evening. But that's about all this movie amounted to. A way to pass the time and a chance to say, "Yes, I watched it.".

The movie is based off of a series of comics done by Rob Zombie, himself, and to give you a quick summary in a few words would be to say, "Action, tits, violence, a bit of depravity, and something from the mind of Rob Zombie, all looking like it was done as a collaboration film between Rob Zombie and the guy who did Ren and Stimpy".

El Superbeasto (voiced by Tom Papa) is the 'hero' of the story, a man with an ego as large as he whose only lot in life is to score with chicks, beat things up, and then go score with more chicks. The main 'plot' of the movie, in fact, is around him wanting to score with a particular stripper (voiced by Rosario Dawson.) Sure, there's a whole part where Dr. Satan (voiced by Paul Giamatti) is trying to gain all the 'sexy powers of Hell' by scoring with the same girl, but looking at it from a true perspective that's basically taking the part of El Superbeasto and transitioning it onto a nerdy villain with an additional intent to gain power from it. Put simply, its a cartoon about people screwing.

Oh, and El Supearbeasto's sister Susie X (voiced by Sheri Moon Zombie) fighting Nazi Zombies and getting into promiscuous conversations and positions with a horny robot.

For the musical score you'll probably receive a few more laughs than you do the actual film with the lyrics at most points basically stating EXACTLY what is going on on the screen. That's sort of sad, really, to imagine that I probably laughed more at a song that's literally recapping what's going on on screen and making random commentary than some of the actual jokes in the movie. I suppose it just goes to show that if Rob Zombie can do something right, its music (HINTHINT.).

Animation, as I stated, looks mostly like a Ren and Stimpy cartoon. There's plenty of cartoon tits in various forms, tons of weird monsters and critters running around, and it seems every few seconds there has to be tits or something sexual, or else the entire 'scene' won't be complete.

To sum this all up really fast if you like odd, twisted, weird things and you don't have to have a conclusion beyond something similar to the end of an old Looney Toons episode or you're just really, really hammered, baked, or flat out bored find somebody who owns this movie and remember to borrow it from them. Don't make an actual trip to go and get the movie or stop by their house or job or whatever, unless you meant to go there for another vastly more important reason. Watch it, and then either snap it in half and save yourself the trouble of anybody ever suggesting to watch it (because once they do its sort of impossible NOT to watch. Its really that sort of movie, so bad that it has to be seen) or count yourself lucky that anything you watch after this is bound to be at least twice as good.