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  Review by Karst ★★★★★

  commits to the bit at an inspiring level

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  Review by brat pacino ★★★★ 6

  Phil Tippett!!!!! Phil Tippett. Phil Tippett worked on Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, RoboCop, and the Twilight Saga. this guy designed Jabba the Hutt AND supervised the CGI vampire birth scene from Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (two equally important cinematic events), and in between those ~30 years he was working on this passion project: an experimental stop-motion dystopian nightmare yuck-fest with no dialogue about the abject horrors of war, the body, and Eraserhead baby-esque creatures. to me, that’s one of the top 3 coolest things ever. Phil actually Tipped it that absolute Mad God hahahahahahaha!

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  Review by Branson Reese 10

  It's like a dispatch from a cooler alternate reality where that grody, grungy Klasky-Csupo/Oddworld/Ident/Monkeybone aesthetic just kept rolling and rolling like a snowball turning into an avalanche. This is easily the best looking movie since 9/11 that I can think of. You might not agree that a movie that features chimpanzee torture and a hallway of faceless immortal titans being shocked in electric chairs and emptying their bowels infinitely into deeper and deeper layers of Hell is beautiful but if that's true it's because you're weak. Pure, unadulterated black tar practical effect creativity. Where has this movie been my whole life? In production, that's where.

  Whiners, go complain about plotting in somebody else's comments. I don't give a shit. Let me have this.

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  Review by Mike Ginn ★★★★ 3

  Congrats to Sid from Toy Story on his first feature

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  Review by Ziglet_mir ★★★ 35

  It feels absolutely wrong to give something so filled with artistic vision, creative heartache, and endless amounts of time anything less than the near perfect or perfect score. Yet as much as I love stop-motion, this does not allow me to give this feature full praise. For something that has now taken 30 years to come to fruition, it makes sense that there is so little in way of narrative and we are instead gifted with a world so full of depth and texture that at times story would not seem to matter, but at some point through all the depraved and crude visuals, one can do nothing else except wonder where this is going to go. So as the…

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  Review by Megan Bitchell ★★ 27

  You know when you’re at an art museum and a movie is playing that you don’t have context for because it’s just a loop from a longer movie or something? That’s what this whole thing felt like for me

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★ 4

  made me feel like a teenager watching weird tv too late at night again

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★ 15

  jesus christ

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  Review by cookie ★★★★★ 7

  god gives all of us a map that falls apart 

  this is what ive been waiting my whole life for i think ? what i didnt know i was searching for within the pages of all those scary stories to tell in the dark books i tore thru in elementary school ? i totally understand why folks walked out of the theatre it’s definitely uncomfortable to feel uncomfortable … but it was a perfect metaphor for what everything feels like rn. hell on earth. haha!

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★ 25

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  There's a massive difference here between admiring all of the blood, sweat, and tears clearly poured into this hellish passion-project, and ultimately how successful it is as a film. No one, especially me, is disputing the barrage of grimy detail, the depths of its Boschian landscapes, its fantastical array of memorable creatures and freaks and weirdos. It's gorgeous to look at. But I struggled to latch onto this admittedly impressive demo-reel in any significant form. The monotonous pacing is a real mood killer, drudging forward without any sense of purpose. It lags and squelches and screams, and eventually the credits roll. Ultimately mind-numbing and a bit of a bore, even at a spare run-time of 83 minutes. This is the kind of movie that I would much rather listen to Phil Tippett speak about in a Q&A than ever watch again.

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  Review by c h r i s 🕯️🍂 ★★★★★ 16

  If you disobey me and remain hostile to me I will act against you in wrathful hostility. I, for my part, will discipline you sevenfold for your sins. 

  Mad God! Mad God! Mad God! 
  Phil Mad God Tippett!
  fear the wrath and debauchery of what 
  thirty years in the making looks like. enter a world full of decrepit souls, fuming decay, and vial visuals so bleak and hellish. Phil Tippett’s version of Hell within Hell, the inner depths of a destroyed wasteland, his painstaking eye for detail is overwhelming with constant movement, making every scene disembodied and full of despair. mad god is bitter and dehumanizing in a sense, creatures left and right working hard to rebuild just to be pushed back…

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  Review by reibureibu ★★★★★ 29

  Mud, blood, piss and shit. These are the four elements the Mad God used to create the world, a realm which belongs to the four horsemen for the apocalypse has already come. The world might end with a bang, but it was dead long before.

  There's no way to really describe Mad God for it is too visually-dense, too iconographically-loaded with new sights, sounds, and especially smells filling up every inch of the screen to even begin to be defined by mere words alone. And similarly there are no words spoken here, but if each picture is normally worth a thousand then the ones in here are worth tenfold. In this (bloody, putrefied) vein is the narrative extremely loose, hardly…