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I'm a big fan of the Drawn Together series. I own all three dvd seasons as well. So when I heard there was a movie coming out I was stoked. I'm very sad to say though that the movie is just completely terrible. My wife and I both hated it. To make matters worse they had to change their animation for budget reasons so the movie looks like a glorified internet flash cartoon. That might not bother some,and I know that was the best they could do, but it bugged me the whole way through.

Lastly...I figured that if the story wasn't that great there would at least be great jokes throughout that saved the film. Well there wasn't. I actually didn't laugh much at anything. Somehow it even managed to not be funny. After it was over we were both literally depressed at how bad it was.

That's just our opinion though. Hopefully there's more people that like it. Once more I loved the series. Literally every episode was great. But...I don't know what happened to the movie...

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There really isn't much there can be said for this movie. The story begins with Foxxy going to solve a mystery about why they can suddenly say the F word and other words normally censored by the network so it can be shown on television. The problem stems from the fact that anyone who owns the DVD's of any of the seasons views everything uncensored, so the point is actually pretty lame. From then on the jokes barely got even a laugh out of me because we have either seen them before or it simply wasn't funny. Seriously, a giant robot out to kill the Drawn Together gang and an evil villain representing a cheap knock off of Two Face from Batman attempting to erase them for being offensive. Then Captain Hero spends almost the whole movie carrying around a dead corpse of a woman that he keeps defiling and having sex with. This joke, because the lines are pretty much all the same and continues relentlessly all the way into the end of the movie, just gets so old so fast and almost made me shut it off several times.

In the end, I guess this is what can be expected when someone attempts to make Drawn Together act cohesively for longer than should ever be done; twenty-two minute episodes. The series apart from the movie was far more sophisticated and had a humor about it that was unmatched with any show that I ever watched. But this movie was nothing more than a pile of dung consistently talking about how the show was ever only offensive and never had a point or had any social commentary at all in it. The problem with that idea is that Drawn together did have social commentary attached to it in several episodes and was able to make me laugh all the time.

I would argue then that this movie is nothing more than a waste of your time and money and if you are still in the process of considering buying it I recommend that you read my review and consider it very carefully. I grade this F for total failure.

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I was a fan of the series, and I actually was a little disappointed when it was taken of the air.

It's a okay movie and nothing more, if you have seen drawn together you know what you're getting (extremely offensive and disturbing entertainment.) And I'm fine with that, the problem was that the jokes wasn't that funny, and nothing really happens. Overall a mediocre movie.

If you're not a fan I'd stay away, If you however are a fan with money to burn,

you could do a lot worse than purchasing this movie.

SGH

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I'm a fan of the series and appreciate the crude, witty, often ridiculous humor. This movie deviates from those traits and provides nothing but vulgarity. They basically loaded it with unnecessary profanity, cheap sexual humor, a few borish running gags, and sickening scenes without any of the usual charm and wit. It is also very story-driven, instead of character-driven, which was an odd twist. The style doesn't quite work, because fans of the show don't expect narrative drama, and were never emotionally invested in the well being of any of the characters to begin with. The writing and dialog seem pretty sloppy overall, and the characters feel very condensed and simplified; like they're just recycling the same gags we've seen again and again. Clara in particular felt very off, like the comedic points of her character were driven to the extreme without any subtlety.

Meh nothing but complaints from me. Very disappointing. Stick with the series.

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It's the Drawn Together TV show, with detailed male genitalia, curiously undetailed female external reproductive apparatuses, some mildly entertaining profanity, and a lot of excrement. Then it's over.

I was reminded of two separate animation features as I watched this thing.

The first was that screamingly bad Seth McFarlane junk Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy (Drawn is better, but not by much). My association between these two features was induced fecally, as both this movie and Cavalcade were absolutely fascinated with excrement. I'm not sure if animators are just way anal-retentive, or that maybe in animation classes they're constantly admonished, "You can never, ever, at all, ever, and I mean not ever, put poop in cartoons." And so these guys, when they get the chance to cut loose really go for the doody jokes, graphically, unpleasantly, and in both the case of this movie and McFarlane's flop, unfunnily.

The other film that came to mind was Ralph Bakshi's classic Fritz the Cat. This groundbreaker came out nearly 40 years ago, and this Drawn Together movie basically covered an awful lot of what Bakshi did. Yeah, this film wasn't saddled with Frit's X rating, but in terms of cartoon nudity and interactive sexual contact--where does the MPAA come down on this, exactly?--this movie is not offering anything that much wilder or wacky. There's one pseudo-lady three-way in a Bedrock dive (of which you get a tad more in the special features), which is pretty raunchy, but that's about it. And some creative penis sight gags starring some of your favorite `toon and comics heroes.

As for having a point, the one barely intellectual aspect of this movie is that they cop to the TV show being cancelled because they were just raunchy, whereas South Park continues to succeed because it is raunchy, but also delivers a social/political/ethical/philosophical point (which the Drawn characters dismiss as preachy and indulgent). There are some great shots at South Park, both in this film's art and narrative, which one could take either as jealous backbiting or respectful emulation. I have to agree with the premise, though: pure raunch can be funny (think Jackass), but if you're delivering a backhanded compliment or stinging criticism on a hot issue with your wacky little `toons showing their special areas or spewing profanity and bodily excretions, that's a more interesting, better product.

The special features are relatively good, with quite a few of them. The deleted scenes aren't really deleted scenes in that they're small bits excised from scenes in the movie. They're only an additional 10-20 seconds of content inexplicably pulled from the scenes of the movie. Who knows why these bits--which are not that bad, and certainly in keeping with the overall intentional bad taste of the product--would have been pulled. Did the producer really have a long, thoughtful conversation about pace, running time, narrative continuity, or over-the-top content with his director and artists? Really?

Bottom line: if you liked the TV show, you'll like this. The bigoted, foul-mouthed, horny, filthy, perverted, vicious and otherwise idiotic crew are free to be who they always were. I don't see a sequel, though.