Evil Toons

Cartoon violence can be a controversial thing. Cartoon rape and demonic possession, however, can be surprisingly entertaining!

After the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the idea of combining live action with animation opened a world of possibilities for dazzling stories. Yet, here we are talking about Evil Toons. It’s your typical story of sexy co-eds stuck in an old house being terrorized by a psychotic demon and David Carradine; you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Except this time the evil little bastard is a cartoon that came to life from a drawing in everyone’s favourite satanic reading, the Necronomicon. That damn book has caused so many problems for so many innocent people, you’d think they would do a better job destroying it. Anyways, as you can imagine, the cartoon comes to life and all hell breaks loose.

Now for the most part this film is pretty entertaining; the girls are dumb as fuck and twice as naked, and the film does move along at a nice pace. However there are two problems with the film, and they both relate to the same thing: its title. Here’s the thing; it’s called Evil Toons. A title like that should indicate there are many evil toons that run amuck in this film, right? Apparently not; instead we get one. One stinking evil toon! That’s strike one! At least we should be able to see that toon wreak havoc, right? Again, not so much. The other major problem with the film is the toon only gets about five minutes of screen time! Are you kidding me? You promise me evil toons and all I get is one barely seen toon? That’s just balls!! So how does one lonely toon find time to terrorize a group of sexy co-eds with no screen time? Possession. That’s right, the toon possesses one of the girls, who then basically is your monster for most of the film. You see, this is what happens when you start shooting your brilliant idea without working out a budget first. Call this strike two! Fortunately for the film it never makes a third strike.

Evil Toons has all the right elements in place, but unfortunately it does not deliver. It really could have been a b-movie classic if more effort was put into it. Yet, it doesn’t completely disappoint; you get an abundance of boobs, David Carradine, a few good chuckles, and some remnants of a psychotic cartoon, so at least there’s enough there to please us feeble-minded drool monkeys. Still, it would have been great to see more evil toons…

Final Mark: 3/5



EXTRA CRAP
The Good: B-movie legend Dick Miller makes an appearance. The world needs more Dick Miller.
The Bad: It’s called Evil Toons, but it only gives you one pathetic toon. Someone declare shenanigans!
The Ugly: Pornstars do not have comic timing.
Food of Choice: Baked Ham in Champagne
Drink of Choice: Black Magic
Useless Trivia: Director Fred Olen Ray is a part-time professional wrestler who owns his independent wresting league. And if this film has anything to say, it’s that he probably wrestles about as good as he directs.
Favourite Quote: Megan - [after watching Roxanne strip] Wow, that was interesting.