Disaster!

This is the funniest movie I've ever seen in my entire life. If you like gratuitous violence, cliché humor, random sex scenes, farting and just raunchy tasteless over the top insanity, then this movie is for you. It is tons better than team America. I could not stop laughing, and new laughs would interrupt old laughs it just kept going and going. It's not for the easily offended or kids, but wow, what a riot. It's so over the top, but it didn't come across as trying to be, like some films just use the F word repeatedly and try to get a reaction, but this movie didn't really need to, they used a lot of other methods to keep repulsive and outrageous without being running one method into the ground. The story was good too, although a rip off of Armageddon, but that made it even better in my opinion.

I just had the luck to see this film at the Hamburg Fantasy Film Fest and loved it, why? It is so far out and funny, in all shades, good humour, bad humour and very bad humour. A little like the Team America makers decided to save the budget by using wax puppets and use the saved cash for really bad substances (I know of course that this is not the case, but look at it and you should see what I mean ;-)) The plot follows the Armageddon script and has some very recognizable scenes almost exactly taken from, it well, momentarily to change drastically and create humour this way and it works! If you like your puppet comedies tough, go and see this one. If you mind bad language and/or explicit themes and scenes, maybe reconsider...

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.

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.