{"id":149010,"date":"2024-09-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=455007"},"modified":"2024-09-23T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:38:19","slug":"i-hope-someone-has-the-balls-to-import-this-pixar-style-animated-musical-about-sperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/i-hope-someone-has-the-balls-to-import-this-pixar-style-animated-musical-about-sperm\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope someone has the balls to import this Pixar-style animated musical about sperm"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.polygon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Sperma.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;%23038;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>This report comes from Fantastic Fest 2024, the annual genre film festival in Austin, Texas. We\u2019ll have more reports from the ground throughout the fest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">Immediately before Fantastic Fest\u2019s late-night screening of Norway\u2019s animated musical <em>Spermageddon<\/em>, the fest employee introducing it described it as \u201cthe most midnight movie that ever midnighted.\u201d It\u2019s an accurate summary: Rasmus A. Sivertsen and Tommy Wirkola\u2019s chipper, cheerfully transgressive look at the lives and ambitions of sperm sets out to cross all sorts of lines in the most wink-wink way possible. It\u2019s overstuffed with immensely cheesy sex puns, animated in the style of a Pixar movie (to the point where the human protagonist looks startlingly like Alfredo from <em>Ratatouille<\/em>), and features a lot of imagery of body parts that don\u2019t show up in Pixar animation. And the big climax \u2014 heh \u2014\u00a0is a musical number about abortion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Frankly put, it\u2019d take real daring for someone to try to screen <em>Spermageddon<\/em> in any mainstream American theater. And American distributors may not have the testicular fortitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That\u2019s unfortunate, largely because <em>Spermageddon<\/em> might fall entirely flat in home viewing, without the comparative formality of a big screen and the communal boost of a big audience. It\u2019s a film designed for a group setting, where you can hear the laughs and disbelieving groans as a bunch of singing, dancing sperm lament their life in the \u201cfleshy, crinkly hell\u201d of a scrotum, while calling each other \u201ccumrade\u201d and spouting lines like \u201cBetter ejacu-late than ejacu-never.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe title=\"Spermageddon \u2013 Teaser Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PxwaaZT3s3g?rel=0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Spermageddon<\/em> is not a sophisticated movie. Maybe it isn\u2019t even a good one: the story is simple and shallow, the humor is frequently juvenile, and the animation clearly shows the project\u2019s budget limitations. The wall-to-wall semen puns (\u201cI don\u2019t mean to be a cummudgeon, but\u2026\u201d) get old quickly. But the songs are catchy, and the storytelling is often engagingly weird and playful. And the screenwriters (including Wirkola, director of the Dead Snow movies and <em>Hansel &amp; Gretel: Witch Hunters<\/em>) are genre-savvy enough to know exactly what they\u2019re lampooning in kids\u2019 animation, and to make the parody elements specific and pointed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">One of the clearest indicators of what they\u2019re doing with <em>Spermageddon <\/em>comes with the opening number. Nerdy sperm protagonist Simen is already neglecting his education at \u201cScrewniversity,\u201d where he\u2019s meant to be focusing on the process of insemination, but is more interested in reading books about the rest of the human body. Pushed by his best friend Cumilla into discussing the future, he kicks off an opening number that feels like a mockery of every \u201cI want to see the world\u201d song that\u2019s ever opened a Disney movie: Simen would much rather stay \u201cin the ballsack,\u201d where he\u2019s safe from the many, many (pictured in an opening montage) ignominious fates that can befall ejaculate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Most of the rest of his fellow sperm feel differently \u2014 particularly corporate overlord and alpha-sperm Jizzmo, who has designed a powerful mecha battle-suit that he thinks will let him dominate any race to an egg. (Even in an adult cartoon about sperm, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2022\/01\/every-movie-villain-is-a-tech-bro.html\">tech bros are still the ultimate villains<\/a>.) At first, it doesn\u2019t seem like the suit will be necessary: He and his fellow sperm live in the testicles of a teenage boy named Jens, who they fear will never get laid, given that he\u2019s devoted to his Xbox, the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars movies, and \u201clearning Klingon.\u201d But Jens is about to spend a weekend at a cabin with a group of friends, including Lisa, an equally nerdy girl who\u2019s equally ready to say goodbye to virginity. Suddenly, the race to \u201cthe gilded place\u201d is on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">It&#8217;s probably best not to ask any questions about the practicalities or details of Simen and Cumilla\u2019s world. Once you start, you might never stop: Why are there male and female gendered sperm? Since sperm don&#8217;t have hands, who&#8217;s knitting all the cute little turtlenecks so many of them are wearing? Where are they getting the materials to make things like neckties, mechas, laser weapons, cigars, and books? Above all, when one particularly domestic sperm suddenly pulls out a picnic lunch for his friends, what the hell kind of animal produced the glistening bone-in ham that&#8217;s part of that lunch?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.polygon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/Spermageddon.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;%23038;crop=9.99072265625,0,80.0185546875,100\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Obviously, none of this matters. Anthropomorphizing inhuman things and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23762172\/elemental-pixar-cars-comparison\">glossing over questions about their society<\/a> is Pixar\u2019s stock in trade, and <em>Spermageddon<\/em> is openly modeled after Pixar movies. (Particularly the Inside Out films: Several sequences set in the control room of Jens\u2019 mind cross over from parody into straight copycatting.) Tonally and visually, the film is remarkably close to a semen-themed spin on the raunchy animated comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/24196793\/sausage-party-seth-rogen-review-amazon-prime-video\"><em>Sausage Party<\/em><\/a>, another film that doesn\u2019t really have coherent or consistent world-building on the brain. But that film has no real interest in its human characters, and <em>Spermageddon <\/em>does, which gives it a surprisingly sweet quality to offset all the silly stuff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Lisa and Jens\u2019 fumbling sexual encounters also push the movie\u2019s sympathies in mighty odd directions. There\u2019s a sweetness to the way this inexperienced-but-eager young couple\u2019s experiments feel through the way porn and real sex are different, or how they navigate communication and the orgasm gap. Amid all this, the sperm characters\u2019 devotion to bypassing Lisa\u2019s considerable efforts at birth control to get her pregnant feels ugly and invasive, more obscene than anything else in this lovably vulgar movie. Wirkola and company certainly don\u2019t believe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk&amp;ab_channel=MontyPython\">every sperm is sacred<\/a>, though: They kill their adorable little sperm protagonists off en masse, and the film even features an upbeat number about the value of abortion to people who aren\u2019t ready to be parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">That song alone is likely to scare American distributors away, guaranteeing that <em>Spermageddon<\/em>, as goofy and lightweight as it is, is unlikely to make it to multiplexes. The hesitance any mainstream distributor would feel about this one is understandable \u2014 it\u2019s not a masterpiece. But <em>Spermageddon<\/em> is an amusing gag with catchy songs and a lot of things viewers will never have seen in animation before. 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