LLAMAGEDDON (2015)
Yeah, but are you gettin' it? Armageddon it!
Ooh, really gettin' it? Yes, llamageddon it!
Just kidding, that movie title reminds me of the Def Leppard song.
First off let me say, at least right now, this flick is pretty tough to find unless you have Amazon Prime. I guess there is a DVD out there with English subtitles, but that sounds kind of shaky since this was filmed in English already.
This one is about a group of space llama’s that have to abandon their planet after some sort of war…I have no freakin idea. The opening is literally all in animation. This goes on for about 4 total minutes of the movie’s because the budget was so low. I am actually pretty sure no one in this movie has acted in anything well known…ever. One of the llama ships (which looks like a horse trailer with wings, but everyone that sees it hilariously says it's obviously a space ship) lands near a small town. Meanwhile these two kids who are not likable in any way shape or form decide to have a giant party when their mom leaves the house. There is the tiniest bit of backstory about them not getting along and their parents being divorced that you can possibly shove into a 69 minute run time. At some point this llama with glowing laser eyes starts racking up the body count and the craziness begins.
I am not going to rag on any of the performances here because it’s pretty clear that the whole point was to make this as comedic and campy as they could. Do not go into this movie expecting anything but total and absolute nonsense and you will have a lot more fun. To be honest, I am rooting for “Louie The Llama” pretty much the entire time. Yeah – they did actually use a real llama for the majority of the llama scenes, but when they don’t, it’s gut busting hilariously.
Strong points in this movie are the more humorous moments regarding the overkill use of blood to the point of absurdity, the llama itself and the movies clear moments of understanding its own outlandish concept. I love movies that are self-aware and just go for the campy 100%. I also really like this idea and the set up (even though it’s animated) is actually kind of cool. Effects wise outside of the real llama everything involving fur is terrible and that actually works for this movie to perfection.
Where this thing fails is in the direction. There are scenes in this thing where the director has the camera right up on people’s faces, like they are trying to talk into a cell phone or something. Maybe this was an inside joke for the film crew, but I can’t think of how it wouldn’t have been vexatious for the audience. There are weird slow motion moments, that come across as not only absent of humor, but flat out annoying. The other part that drops the ball is the middle of this movie which is essentially just a long party scene that adds nothing to the film, (even humor wise) outside of a few “oh, I understood that reference”, pop-culture mentions. The party sequence also involves one of the weirdest make out moments of any movie I’ve seen in a long, long time. I also could have done without the llama space egg scene towards the end of the movie.
Even with its flaws this movie does move right along after that damn party scene is finally near over and after that almost everything is just pure nutty fun. While some are categorizing this as just comedy sci-fi, I would also throw in “horror” as well. There is just a ton of blood in this thing, but in a really, really campy way. Other cool things about this movie is that they actually had a budget for a helicopter scene and an above average soundtrack and score. The credits are pretty hilarious if you can handle profanity resembling the OFFICE SPACE typewriter scene and they actually show you the entire movie again off to the side in super-fast motion.
For me this is a 5 out of 7. It won’t be for everyone, but wow…it’s nuts and I have to give props for the concept alone.
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