RAUC Talk: So Bad It's Good: Foodfight!

Foodfight (one word) was originally going to be released in 2003, but someone stole the footage. Why someone would steal footage of this awful movie is beyond me, but it cropped up again in 2011 when it was put on auction. It was bought by "Threshold Entertainment," which I certainly have never heard of, and released in 2012.

The concept is actually kinda cool. The Marketropolis Market is a regular supermarket by day, but it becomes a huge city at night. It's populated by many brands including Mr. Clean, Mrs. Butterworth, and a version of the Cap'n Crunch guy. There's a lot of product placement in the movie, incidentally.

The movie starts out with Dex Dogtective (voiced, of all people, by Charlie Sheen) fighting a fat cat burglar named... Fat Cat Burglar... on a blimp. After knocking off some of the ugliest hamsters ever, he then pops the blimp, sending Fat Cat Burglar to his doom, yet Dex somehow survives. Fat Cat Burglar never appears again, though the hamsters unfortunately do.

Then Dex proposes to his girlfriend, Sunshine, while his annoying "sidekick" Dan Daredevil sky-writes a picture of Dex proposing... for some reason. But in order to draw the ring Dan has to do the loop-da-loop, something which "he's never pulled off before." The plane blows up in midair somehow, and Sunshine goes off to see if he's okay. She ends up disappearing.

I wouldn't miss her. She's scary!

The movie flashes forward six months, to when the flailiest guy ever pushes for "Brand X" to be stocked in the market. The owner agrees for some reason, and "Lady X" comes into the city. She attempts to... seduce Dex (this is a kid's movie), but he refuses. Soon Dan disappears, and Lady X captures Dex, too. He and Dan are put into a dryer, but they escape ("Socks! That's it! Socks always escape the dryer!"). Then they travel to the owner's computer to get Brand X recalled, as it contains addictive elements according to a big-nosed scientist. While this is happening, there's a great scene where the Brand X people are trying to get the population of the city to sing their jingle ("Brand X, Brand X, it's simple and plain"), but the people sing the French national anthem instead. Okay...

Why would the store owner ever trust this guy?

There's one scene where this scientist sneezes. It's not pretty.

Unfortunately, a guy working for Brand X turns off the power before the recall email gets sent. The next half hour (a third of the movie) is just a big fight. I won't give anymore away, should you decide to watch this trash.

So, this movie apparently cost $65 million to create. I have no idea where that money went, because if you haven't noticed from the screenshots, the animation is awful. It may be from 2003, but Toy Story was made in 1995 and its animation was pretty good.

Also, this movie is full of non-kid-friendly content. Many of the movie's quotes can't be written here ("I think I wet myself... it feels kinda nice"), as it's full of sexual jokes, racist jokes, and anti-Semitic jokes. There's also a weasel that dabbles in the black market. And there are fart jokes, too.

I would say this is worth watching just for the awful animation. You can find the full movie on YouTube. Finally, here are some of the other screenshots I took.