This is showing on Amazon Prime. I'd heard about it a few years ago, I was curious. The animation is really, truly awful. Sub-standard demo reel quality. I couldn't make it past the five minute mark.
I've worked in animation. The project I worked on in 1998 never got released as a feature film, but as a ride film. It was still light years ahead of this dreck. And it had a nice Frederic Talgorn score.
The only thing Ive seen as bad as Food Fight was some Disney rip-offs in CGI from India, Honk Kong, or Russia. Not sure who made them. What makes this one stand out in a weird way, are the big stars (at that time) they got to do voice work on this. It's beyond embarrassing.
I remember one short, probably in a Spike and Mike festival, that was about a whole tribe of tiny creatures who had faces halfway between Sy Snootles and Dumbo the elephant. The soundtrack sounded like all the instrumentalists were asked to suck on their horns rather than blow (really). It was painful.
I nominate the DragonLance direct to video film, it was truly disappointing, horrid, & one of the most poorly animated films I've ever seen. I cannot believe it was actually allowed to be released, I loved the original series of novels the film was based on.
It already has a head start in being bad by being CGI. Never been a fan of animated cartoons, with the exception of the 60s and 70s material, and I find CGI even worse. Children's TV nowadays is predominately CGI, either kitschy 3D or the utterly cheap Flash/ GIF type stuff with revolting colours. Even high priced pixar or what else there is, is something I can hardly watch. The rubbery almost liquid faces with the same 5 exaggerated expressions, the unrealistic movements, it's a chore to go through that.
It already has a head start in being bad by being CGI. Never been a fan of animated cartoons, with the exception of the 60s and 70s material, and I find CGI even worse. Children's TV nowadays is predominately CGI, either kitschy 3D or the utterly cheap Flash/ GIF type stuff with revolting colours. Even high priced pixar or what else there is, is something I can hardly watch. The rubbery almost liquid faces with the same 5 exaggerated expressions, the unrealistic movements, it's a chore to go through that.
D.S.
CGI is an art I'm slowly starting to enjoy, but only for a handful of movies made thus far. Namely the two Dragon films. However I really miss the beauty of hand drawn animation- especially hand drawn backgrounds. (Hand drawn digital background can look just as nice as painting on canvas or paper though)
Other than the plastic faces in CGI, I really dislike the computer generated backgrounds. Hate them with a passion. There so mechanical looking and lack and sense of depth.
To get this back on topic, for worst animated film, Food Fight encompasses everything that's wrong in the making of this animated film, top to bottom. The execution in writing, designing, direction - everything. And it's damned ugly to look at.
FF is indeed perhaps one of the top worst animated films ever made. Check out the Nostalgia Critic's reviews of two different Titanic animated films -- both shocking terrible as well.
Great article! Shows what happens when something is developed simply on the basis of a gimmick and greed. Especially if you don't even have an artistic vision.
The investor wanting to finish the thing no matter how bad just so they had a product they could sell. They didn't care what it looked like. Probably enough Moms and Dads purchase this turd just on the fact it's in the kiddie bin. This alone probably made back their money.
