Best movie of this year hands down!

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Never having read the comic book, I wasn't particularly familiar with the concept of El Superbeasto, but I decided to buy the DVD movie from Amazon simply because it was a Rob Zombie production.I am assuming that this is an acquired taste, whether you will like it or not. I wasn't particularly loving this cartoon. Sure it had its moments, but it was nowhere near Rob Zombie's previous movies.The story in "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" came off a rather irrelevant to me. There wasn't any particular greater coherent meaning to it. And that had me dozing off a couple of times along the way.Now, the cartoon had stuff working out in its favor as well. Especially the impressive list of people on the voice cast. There was really some nice actors/actresses on the list here, and thumbs up for that. What had to be the best moment in the entire feature was when Otis Driftwood (voiced by Bill Moseley) and Captain Spaulding (voiced by Sid Haig) showed up. Even for just that short a moment, it totally made it worthwhile. But also Dr. Satan (voiced by Paul Giamatti) made the story worthwhile to sit through.The way the cartoon made fun of itself and other cartoons was good.The Nazi zombies made the movie bearable as well, because, come on, I mean zombie Nazis just make everything much more fun. There is something oddly interesting about that combination. And it was a nice touch with all the iconic movie monsters making cameo appearances throughout the movie.I doubt that I will be popping this DVD in the player a second time, it just didn't really leave a lasting impression on me, unlike Rob Zombie's previous movies (especially "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects").Oh, and a word of warning, there is a lot of nudity (albeit animated) in this feature, and also lots of violence and somewhat what might be considered improper language by some. So you might not want to watch this if you are particularly sensitive to such things.

Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The (2009) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Even though this is an animated film it pretty much has everything you'd expect from a Rob Zombie movie and that's gory violence, non-stop profanity, graphic sex and nudity in just about every frame. The film centers on Superbeasto (Tom Papa), a masked Mexican wrestler who must destroy Dr. Satan (Paul Giamatti) with the help of Suzi X (Sheri Moon Zombie) and her robot assistant. I really wasn't sure what to expect from this film since I wasn't that big of a fan of Zombie's regular movies but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise, although I'm sure many will be turned off by the extremely adult nature. If you're easily offended then it's probably best that you skip this thing but if you're got a dark sense of humor then you'll probably find yourself laughing at many of the situations. I think what I enjoyed most were all the nods to previous horror movies as the film not only pays tribute to the likes of KING KONG, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and various others but we get countless monsters including Frankenstein's monster, the Gil Man, Dracula, various werewolves and countless other creatures. We get Nicholson's character from THE SHINING as well as a Peter Lorre character doing a Jekyll and Hyde part. We even get some non-horror actors like Katharine Hepburn in a brief part. Zombie certainly has fun paying respect to these older films and we even get a prologue that goes word for word on the one from FRANKENSTEIN (1931). The vocals by Giamatti, Paga and Zombie are all good and we also get Clint Howard, Danny Trejo, Rosario Dawson, Geoffrey Lewis, Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Ken Foree among others. As with other Zombie movies, this one here is full of dirty profanity that ranges from constant "F" bombs to the redneck humor you'd come to expect. Many of the jokes are sexual in nature but they work here because nothing in the film is meant to be taken too serious. The animation looks pretty good but I think it's the dark images of the screenplay and the brains behind it that makes the film so memorable. Running under 80-minutes, the film eventually runs out of steam but for the most part there's quite a bit here for horror fans to eat up.

If you expect something that is intelligent please go back to watching your average cartoon.Smooth, fluid and stylish animation does not hide this strange cartoons weird illustrations.However the voice acting is fantastic, great timing and sense of style.Fun soundtrack and zany visuals put this in a similar category to Drawn together and other dark parodies.Some sections appear like they are straight from a underground forum or viral video's.Rob Z has done a fantastic job.9/10

I can take or leave Rob Zombie. Some of his movies like "House of 1000 Corpses" and "Devils Rejects" were tons of fun. On the other hand his remake of "Halloween" just put the zombie spin on a classic that was better in its original form. So I had an open mind when I started to watch (I say this because I stopped watching half way through) El Superbesto. This is a boring cartoon with obvious gags and gratuitous sex and violence in cartoon form that starts to put you to sleep after the first 10 times that it's done in the movie. Basically, this is Cartoon Network with a "R" rating and it bored me to death (in fact I actually put on Cartoon Network afterward so I could watch some quality animation. Rob stick with the horror and leave the animation and comedy to the professionals.