Trump vs the Illuminati

Should have been called "Trump's *Voice* vs the Illuminati." Could just as well have been "Buggs Bunny vs the Illuminati" for all the difference it would have made. The creator took a cute idea, and... basically did nothing with it for an hour and ten minutes.

It immediately starts out with some looong and boring exposition, and... never really gets off the ground from there. Most of the scenes consist of a simple back-and-forth between mostly static shots, with not much of anything happening. A series of still panels would have done the job just as well. The animation itself is a strange mixture of competent and lazy (eg. The near absence of human faces).

Thin on humor and ideas. Could possibly have made a mildly entertaining ten or fifteen minute short, but sitting thru over an hour of this stuff is just plain coma-inducing.

Granted, I wasn't really expecting much from an animated CGI movie with a title such as "Trump vs the Illuminati". But still, with the chance to sit down and watch it, I did so. After all, it could just happen that this was going to be a hilarious spoof or something.

Well, it was something, alright...

Let's just get down to business. "Trump vs the Illuminati" was bad. Painstakingly and irrevocably bad.

The storyline was just atrocious, and I wonder how the writer and director managed to came up with something as abysmal and idiotic such as this. I mean, this was just downright bad. And not in a way that it was so bad it was actually fun to watch. No, this was just bad.

The CGI was rigid and wooden, looking like something from an early 2000s computer game. Sure, there were some interesting details and some of the space suits were actually interesting, but the majority of the textures and characters were just horrible to look at.

And then let's talk about the voice acting. Well, for an animated CGI movie, I am sure that we can agree upon the fact that having a good ensemble of talents to do the voices is alpha and omega, right? Right. Well, hold your horses, because the people behind the dubiously animated characters had for the most part annoying voices and delivered their lines without emotion. It was the stuff that would give you a splitting headache. And the guy that did Trump's voice was pretty far off from being an imitation of Trump's mannerisms of speech and such for the most part.

"Trump vs the Illuminati" is a CGI animated movie that you should give a wide berth. Some of us suffered through this ordeal in parts or in whole, so you don't have to waste your time, money or effort.

My rating of this 2020 CGI animated movie lands on a mere one out of ten stars. It was boring, uneventful, had outdated CGI animations and were just downright ludicrous to sit through.

What more needs to be said? CGI created with Blender or the like, (but obvious;y with so little facilities available that almost every scene is comprised of cycling short animations, with jump-backs that really jar. (Witness an astronaut - with motionless arms - start at one end of a corridor, glide painfully slowly down the corridor - remaining motionless bar the glide - and suddenly jump back to the start of the corridor again, or DJT conversing with said astronaut and being in 4-5 separate locations whilst doing do! Ahhh!! At no point do the animators dare to tackle a human face, apart from vague impressions of DJT's clownish boat-race through his visor. He is never seen outside of his space-suit. (Although it is a spookily familiar shade of orange...) After 15 minutes of the most banal attempts at story and humour, I started skipping a couple of minutes at a time and quickly realised I was doing myself a favour, as I witnessed aliens, wheelchair bound Lucifer, werewolves, Alastair Crowley, Van Helsing, Dr. Jeckyll, Ra, Anubis and Joseph freaking Stalin! If I had forced myself to watch it all, I think I might have stabbed myself in the eye with shards of my melted laptop. One star for the attempt and one star for the song over the closing credits, 'Another Witch-hunt'. Avoid it. Seriously.

This movie was always going to fail in one obvious way: it's not possible to spoof Donald Trump. Nothing could be as ridiculous, absurd, bizarre, strange, repulsive and laughable as the big orange man himself.

I'm currently only half way through, but I had to make an account to give my opinion. It's really goofy and cringey and that's the only reason I've been laughing. The animation isn't the best but it's better than others. I noticed a few scenes had repeated animation and the faces were not animated for emotion or even simple talking. Very stale with the conversations as well. The storyline is a little odd but seeing it has Trump as the protagonist, I'm not too surprised. I would recommend this movie if you have a large group of friends over and you want to play a movie to get them laughing from the awkwardness. Besides all this, major props to the people who worked on this movie for thinking this up, animating and voice acting this. Ya'll tried your best.