Parents beware

Igor may be marketed to kids, but it isn’t at all for them | Sam Thielman

The Weinstein Company

Do your toddlers fondly recall the original, uncensored release of A Clockwork Orange? Are you nostalgic for the subtle anti-Bush fables that Hollywood craftsmen used to make in the good old days? Do you find Tim Burton movies fun, but not nearly garish enough?

If so, have I got a movie for you. MGM's Igor is the latest CGI creation to grace the screens of the local multiplex, and, like its namesake and its principal character, it appears to have been cobbled together by grave robbers.

There's the shallow lefty moralizing sewn inside the Beauty-and-the-Beast relationship between Igor (John Cusack) and his creation Eva (Molly Shannon), which is stitched to a bunch of characters from a place that looks suspiciously like Halloweentown from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Then there are the winking references to everyone from Stanley Kubrick to Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, and there are a host of B-list celebrity voice actors who appear to have recorded this little gem in about an hour before heading out to lunch.