I did NOT understand this story AT ALL. Very strange and awkward in a bad way. The characters were confusing and scary. I felt the writers were high on something when they conceived the fruit/vegetable man...???? Hands down one of the worst movies I have EVER seen.
shareI did not particularly enjoy it either.
The whole thing felt like ripoff after ripoff.
Shrek and Fiona were there, Shreddor or whatever his name is from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a Gladiator scene, Ratatouille. Scenes that felt like Lord of the Rings.
Overall - confused story - i gave it 2/10 but am not really sure why. I guess only because i have seen worse movies.
There was a Renaissance artist who painted this way:
From Wikipedia:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (also spelled Arcimboldi) (1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of such objects as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books – that is, he painted representations of these objects on the canvas arranged in such a way that the whole collection of objects formed a recognizable likeness of the portrait subject.
However, I agree, this was a really odd, disjointed, creepy movie.
Honestly this movie was pretty awful. The book wasn't bad, and at least the veggie demon wasn't in it. Seriously, the veggie demon had nothing to do with the plot and made no sense. I liked the main rat character but that's it. Anyone notice how similar a lot of the characters are to Ratatouille? The chef looks like the mean chef from Ratatouille, the evil rat looks like the evil food critic, and then the underground mouse city looked similar to flushed away...
shareThe fruit & veggie guy was a tribute to Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the famous artist who drew people with composition of human faces & bits of "objects" such as fruit. I think most people who didn't enjoy this movie didn't understand the principals being taught in book or movie. It's not a typical Disney movie that smacks you in face with it's points & creates each character to market toys not true character development! This movie tips its hat to artist & famous techniques. Look in trivia for explanation. It's a story that should be understood by adults then explained to the children who wish to read it. My son read the book in 3rd grade & I believed at the time too dark for children of that age. (Like the father beating the farm girl until her ears bleed & she lost her hearing.) The first director was dismissed for having too dark of imagery, if that explains how dark it could've been! Watch it again with more thought to society, politics, & morals and you might see what they were attempting better. And no, not every princess needs to find a prince at the end to live happily ever after. Knowledge & friendship are what made her happy.
shareFlcracker- sorry I didn't read down further to see your post that explains the art & imagery much better than I could've done!! Your point was well done.
Why are people referring to a veggie DEMON?!? He was conjured by the chef to make the soup! That doesn't make him a demon!!!
Don't listen to them, a lot of people are ignorant. My daughter and I called him the Soup Genie, was just the natural interpretation. Demon? Yeah, that's really weird I agree.
shareAs for seeing Fiona & other characters from movies you have forgotten that the book was written well before any of those characters ever exsisted! Perhaps the borrowing was the other way around.