The Amazing Bulk

Bad but in a funny way, kinda like the room. In all seriousness this movie is so awful it is actually somewhat enjoyable to laugh at.

This movie is marketed as "The Room" of superhero movies. This is not even that. Some movies are good, some are bad, some are so bad they're good and then there are very special movies that are so bad, so god awful that that they are unwatchable. This movie belongs to that last category. The thing about movies that re so bad they're good is that some effort went into making them. This didn't have that. They bought graphics and used a green screen, and very poorly at that. The acting is terrible, the shots are all so awful, the CG, my god the CG was atrocious and...I really don't know what else to say. The final nail in the coffin is that when they realized how bad their movie was, they quoted an article calling it the room of of superhero movies (which I believe is giving it too much credit) and they market it that way, trying to make it sound ironic, like that this is worth picking up for bad movie night. If you ever see this movie on a store shelf and you need something for bad movie night, don't pick this one! For the love of God, pick something else! The makers of this movie do not deserve the money they make from this crap! FIND SOMETHING ELSE!

Many of us enjoy a genuine effort to make a movie that results in a hot mess. Part of the sadistic joy is recognizing many diligent months if not years were poured into the work, only to fall gloriously short.

This movie flips the story. Luring you into the promise of a genuine Z movie, but instead is an extraordinarily lazy, pathetic, painful effort to pump out something straight to ignominious glory. This is not Birdemic. This is not the Miami Connection. It's just crap for crap's sake. Not worthy of dishonorable mention. Just indifference.

Even when taking into account that it's low-budget and taking it for what it is(which is not to take it seriously), that did not stop The Amazing Bulk from being an abomination and a truly embarrassing one at that, one where it is so amateurishly done that it would be impossible to get any novelty value.

The Amazing Bulk has to be down there with the cheapest-looking movies ever, with the (over)use of green screen looking so painfully fake. It's drably shot and looks like it was edited on a near-broken bacon-slicer(especially in the "running", in speech marks but I am not sure what it was, scenes), while the cartoony special effects look a minimum of 25 years out of date. The Monster not only looks terrible(an external review likened it to the "love child of Tor and Barney the Dinosaur" and that is a perfect summation) but is not threatening or entertaining in the slightest, it barely does anything even. The music is over-bearing and more often than not doesn't fit at all and often an excuse to show how many pre-existing tunes you can find in one movie, which are nearly all out-of-place.

It's an incredibly badly written movie too and that's being kind. The dialogue is so childish and awkward that it'd make the toes curl, if a student submitted this script as a writing assignment they would fail, and not narrowly, we're talking catastrophically. The story is stupid, unoriginal and dull and nothing else with a good number of random and irrelevant scenes, there is nothing thrilling, suspenseful or entertaining here(any fun anyone might get out of the movie would be unintentional). The stereotypical characters are obnoxious and one-note with very little personality injected in them. There is a distinct lack of effort and care in the direction and as for the awfulness of the acting, where to begin? It's almost non-existent, mannequins show more emotion and that is not a joke. With exception of the incongruously and annoyingly over-the-top General who belongs somewhere else altogether.

Overall, an abomination in every area with nothing even halfway decent about it. 0/10 Bethany Cox

Introduction:

As easily the most rip off film ever made. "The Amazing Bulk" is an essential in how not to make a film. With horrible visuals, bad acting, and garbage screenplay: this is a film that should avoided, but like a so bad it's good movie, it's worth at least one watch.

The Story & Characters:

Centering around a scientist who gets turned into a purple monster. This film has some of the worst writing of any film, and most nonsensical plot.

From a villain that makes no sense. And had basically no relavence. He could be taken out the movie, and it wouldn't change that much. To backwards motivations of every character. The film has no understanding of how to write a screenplay.

And when the film tries to be funny, the jokes are just confusing. Like when the villain is messing with some sattelites. It appears that the sattelites are trying to mimic sex. But the joke isn't funny and makes no sense. It's only when it's unintentionally funny, that the film gets a laugh.

The Visuals:

Bad CGI, horrible practical effects, and an over use of bad green screen. Now, many might see me as a hypocrite, claiming this, as I have stated that I like the Star Wars Prequels. And those films notorious for the use of special effects. Well, those films had effects that were very revolutionary for the time. I mean, ILM (the company George Lucas had), had to invent some of the technology themselves. And people loved them back when it came out. But this has no excuse.

First off, even though it was made in 2012, they're somehow than films that came out more than 10 years earlier. And the budget was very low, so the use green screen was a bad choice. It makes every frame look like an episode of "Blue's Clues". And it's embarrassing that thought it looked good. But kind of hilarious.

Conclusion:

This film is terrible. A great example of a bad movie. A movie that gives me a headache when I think about it. But makes me busy out laughing when I watch. This movie sucks, but I love it.