The Spanish director-writer of this film has created a real piece product. In the sense that, firstly, in his work, he did nothing else but inventing and transferring his amazing world to the screen, once demonstrating it in a short format, in order to develop the story in this full-fledged production for a standard hour and a half; and, secondly, the uniqueness of the work still lies not in this, but in the fact that it is positively insane fiction, mixed from several genres a bright cocktail with a special unique taste.
At first, it may seem that before us a “superhero movie”, where a brave character wanders in a suit with typical rubber muscles. Partly this is so - the main character is really a hero called Baron, waving a sword, aptly firing a pistol and with a grotesque inflatable sponge silhouette, clearly borrowed from the insides of a soft sofa. However, the production is related only to the clip manner of shooting, because the story is based on a futuristic version of the comprehension of religious motifs and horror, showing some completely unthinkable world of the future, where people, enlisting the support of a friendly alien race, reminiscent of relatives of the merry Alpha from the series of the same name, are waging a large-scale war with hordes of hellish demons. On such a plot easily lies the Alliance, serving God, consisting of the Baron, who imagines himself as the Savior, people, mutants and aliens, who holistically represent the community of steampunk cyber-metal crusaders and inquisitors, sprinkling prayers, based in the headquarters-ship, plowing the orbit of the Earth, and confronts them with the alliance of the grotesque lady Perverted – in this comic image, the quirk of Babylon, and Ragnarok, whose squeering and esqueering robots, are scribly selected by epepeptics. Naturally, in addition to local battles, there will be a whole large-scale battlefield of two troops against the background of a medieval castle with huge cannons behind the shoulders of the Alliance and Satan himself, who descended from the famous astronomy of the hypothetical mysterious Planet Nine to support monsters. All this is nonsense impossible, not even counting the Iscariot bomber carrying an atomic bomb!
But wait, this is just the beginning, because the author genuinely bribes not so much with a bright fantasy as with a way to recreate it on the screen, often using frank puppet models, making them full-fledged participants in events, without hiding or masking the puppet “cartoon”, fully adjacent to living people. And since the fairy tale is quite adult, where there are tons of self-harm, juicy shootouts, buckets of red paint and various cut-offs of the limbs with forged steel, there will be figurative actresses in minimalistic costumes, who turned out to be among the toys - an indescribable effect that causes laughing and tenderness. The director, as a true fantasist, is not ashamed of this, contagiously immersed with his head in his game, in his plot, easily and simply using, for example, a puppet plane on a rope or soldiers. But don't think it's an ugly thrash. On the contrary, the toy versions of the characters look diligent and skillful to adequately work out all the expensive visual scenes for which the author simply did not have the means, so he resourcefully manages the time-consuming archaic process of frame-by-frame animation, animating all sorts of small dolls or dummies in human growth and even more. It is impossible to keep silent about the worthy work of the costume designer-decorator, who invented peculiar outfits, armor, technique and appearance of monsters, giving the necessary immersion in the presented futuristic version of the prophecy from Revelation, when faithful servants of different gentlemen are forced to irreconcilably feud, shooting blasters, bullets, mechanical hands, fencing swords, grabbing claws, blowing fists and devouring live, as if the course of times went mad, having gathered in one place different eras, even surprisingly giving out something.
The movie is really funny. It is exceptionally entertaining, as frankly stupid, but still an amusing fantasy with exciting adventures, desperate fights, amazing costumes, outlandish creatures made of painted plastic, foam, metal, wires, rubber and something else that on the screen constantly moves, blinks, talks, causing a smile and sympathy for the fictional author, who did not despair that there is no huge budget for expensive “avatar” special effects, and bypassed the easy way of cheap, faceless computer graphics, exclusively with his own hands, a small magician, kisses, and a lot of his own life.
6 out of 10