Disaster - Der Film

When a movie tells us from the beginning that it is not going to be anywhere near any political correctness, you know what to expect. At least you should and some of the jokes will be more than predictable. A lot of violence, flatulence and nudity ensues. Now does that sound like something you might find funny? Because if not stay clear of this.

And let's make one thing clear: I didn't rate this based on me liking everything I saw, but by the fact that it took the ball and ran with it. It is consistent from start to finish, which is something you can admire about this, no matter what you think of the content. Juvenille and gross this is spoofing distaster movies left and right ... all the way to Armageddon!

So you thought "Team America" and "Thunderbirds" were crap? Then just wait until you see the marginal and totally retarded puppet-farce called "Disaster!". It's the ultimate reason for Muppet Show creator Jim Henson to turn in his grave. I guess I must have seen a different movie than the other two reviewers on this site, as I certainly did NOT see a funny Sci-Fi parody with wit dialogs and hilarious effects, but a hugely irritating and infantile 80 minutes homage to fart-jokes. Released in my country as "Apollo 13 1/3", the plot (haha!) is identical to "Armageddon", with an asteroid threatening to wipe out mankind upon its collision with earth. All the recognizable sequences from that film, as well as several other ones, are ridiculed in a very un-funny and clichéd manner. The male puppets all are perverted and trigger-happy idiots and the females are dumb sluts with giant plastic breasts. You may anticipate crude humor about handicapped people and racist remarks towards pretty much every ethnic group living on this planet. In good old South Park tradition, the film is very gore and multiple puppets have their heads blown off or their entrails ripped out. But the humor in Trey Parker's films is actually really tasteful & original compared to the pathetic imagination of director/creator Roy T. Wood. This type of crap isn't even funny when you're drunk or stoned and I truly regret wasting the money of a rental on it.

I watched this film last night expecting to see something along the lines of 'Southpark' or 'Team America' since the movie was described as 'hilarious' adult animation. Either my definition of hilarious is different to the reviewers or they have the sense of humour of a 12 year old.

Utterly terrible in all but the standard of the claymation animation, if fart-gags, terrible innuendo, racial stereotype based jokes and puppet nudity are your thing, you'll love it. If you've passed puberty, you'll probably hate it.

As I said the only 'good' thing about the movie is the animation, along the lines of 'celebrity deathmatch', I can't fault the animators talents.

As a parody movie for disaster movies such as Armageddon and other similar movies it sort of works. Its not a brilliant movie, but I do give it 3/10 stars. If movies like Team America is your kind of movie, this might be worth a watch, but this isn't Team America. It just sort of looks like Team America, but cheaper and less well written. Its a bit more forced, cliche and it plays more on sex. It does have a good parody of Stephen Hawking.

The movie actually starts of well enough, but after about 40 minutes the movie gets repetitive and nods to Star Trek, Terminator and classic 70s Sci-fi doesn't really help in this case. Its an OK movie, but not good. There are too many fart jokes in the later half of the movie. Some of the humor seems forced and just how many claymation tits do one need to see? I could go on to say the movie has several overly stereotyped characters, including racist characters. Not for everyone.

It could have been a good movie. However there is simply too much prepubescent humor and a manuscript that ran out of ideas.

As the title suggests it is definitely a disaster of a movie. In the Netherlands I found this title in the 0,50 Euro bin, but it wasn't even worth that amount. The humor is over over over the top, the script would not have been approved even by a 12-year old who loves fart jokes and naked dolls, which is basically 3/4 of the movie. The endless repetition of this type of jokes made for a 90 minute film that felt like it had a running time of 90 hours. I'm afraid to be caught throwing the DVD in the thrash and somebody noticing it. It would reveal I actually watched this movie.

Many many negative stars.

Just don't watch it......