Manborg (2011)

Manborg (NR) - Review

"Death by Green Screen"

General Draculon of Hell has invaded Earth and decimated humanities ranks.  Sometime later a slain soldier reawakens;  he is cybernetically modified, and with a group of multi-cultural freedom fighters attempts to revenge the death of his brother, who once said:

"It's not about the killing, it's about family"

It's actually about the aping of popculture sci fi, anime and video games by super-lowballing the budget and shooting everything on a greenscreen found in your grandmother's basement.  While some of the costume and makeup effects are ingeniously inventive with those inside them cheesy yet likeable, the majority of the film is student grade hokum with very few real laughs.  The good quality stop motion animation and sometimes quick witted dialogue cannot overcome its short lived humor and simple rehashing of well known plots where ideas and creativity could have saved it.  The team's short film that followed, BIO-COP, proved how great Manborg itself could have been if it were just a 5 minute joke trailer instead of a 60 minute quasi-feature.

4.5 Overdubbed Australians out of 10 (MEDIOCRE)