This is a totally screwed-up film... on many levels. Wow, where does one start? First of all this movie looks like it was filmed with a home camcorder, the characters are beyond unreallistic and completely unbelievable, the concept is really weird, and the acting is some of the worst ever caught on celluloid. And yet, you get the feeling that all of it, even the bad stuff, is all on purpose. Anyway, the story is about how Satan discovers the amazing qualities of a popular modern item (well, not anymore) we all know as a DVD. He creates a monstrous cartoon character (mostly played by a guy in a costume) called Dr. Carnage and his sidekick, a ravenous monkey named Max Assassin, and places them on DVDs and drops one in everyone's mailbox (I guess since AOL did that, he thought he could too).
Some weird chick with breasts big enough to be classified as weapons of mass destruction, who also looks 35 years old but acts like a 6-year-old, finds one in her mailbox and decides to play it out of childish boredom.
Meanwhile, her parents (consisting of an obvious man in drag with a voice like John Wayne) are going out of town for the weekend and put her older sister in charge. Somehow as if planned, the "older" sister looks much much younger than the "younger" sister.
Anyway, the older sister invites some friends over, some boys who bring liquor, what have you, and throws a party. Little sister with boobs so big they have different zip codes, is watching what looks like a stupid cartoon about a mad doctor and his rabid pet monkey. Suddenly, Dr. Carnage and Max Assassin leap from the TV and extract very cartoonish (and strikingly gruesome) ways of killing everyone. All the cartoon cliches are used... safe dropped on the head, being sawed in half, spine ripped out, TNT explosives, etc. Live-action is mixed with cheap cartoon overlay and computer effects, some of which are truly hilarious and deserve really good drugs.
As expected this movie is extremely colorful, being about cartoons and all, but this is as gory as can be expected when a safe falls on your head. In a real cartoon, their head came out flat, they blew on their thumbs and everything pops out into place. But here, when a safe falls on you, you're squashed beyond recognition, your guts are coming out and brain matter is staining the wall. All through the night, everyone gets it in a different way.
Monday when "Mom" and Dad return, they find the house a mess and body parts everywhere. The drag queen mom goes into a totally hilarious spastic fit that was so side-splittingly funny that it was almost worth sitting through this entire cheap piece of crap for an hour and a half! And, I seriously stretch the word "almost". As bizarre as it was, I can't say that I didn't enjoy it.
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