Film: Willy's Wonderland
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant
Director: Kevin Lewis
Rating: **1/2
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Nicholas Cage battling satanic animatronics seems like an impact on board, yet Willy's Wonderland generally agrees to the absolute minimum with its innovative reason. Willy's Wonderland is all that it says on the tin: it's Nicolas Cage caught in an amusement park warding off animatronic characters. The Kevin Lewis film is just about as much fun as you bring along to it, however it's somewhat under-planned and dull to be something besides normal.
Nic plays The Janitor, a tranquil maverick speeding through a provincial town when street spikes victory his tires. Minutes subsequent to surveying the harm, a tow transporter helpfully dives in to make all the difference. He can trade the tires for a terrific yet will not acknowledge cards, and there's no ATM. The tow transporter rather offers an exchange; if the Janitor remains for the time being in the neighborhood family fun focus, Willy's Wonderland, to clean it, the fixes are free. With a shrug of acknowledgment and a refrigerator brimming with canned drinks, the Janitor will work. It becomes apparent that he's intended to be a penance to the wicked animatronics that spring to life every evening, except it's them that ought to fear the Janitor.
Totally, this is Cage's show, and it's him at his unhinged best. At a certain point, he's going to safeguard one when his watch clock goes off disclosing to him it's his break, so he takes off to swallow some caffeinated beverages and play pinball. It's as though to him saving the adolescents, battling the animals, and cleaning the café are largely important for a similar occupation he consented to do, and he'll do it - however he needs his standard workday breaks! Concerning the animatronic characters, they don't make any difference much. They appear on prompt to assault both the Janitor and the teenagers that break in to save him, yet there's no genuine character or qualification between them however much the film needs you to accept there is.
Filmed by Kevin Lewis, Willy's Wonderland is certifiably not an outwardly engaging film. With a cleaned out, quieted range and opening credits in a VCR Mono textual style intended to instill a retro VHS vibe, it rather upgrades the low spending quality. A significant part of the activity ghastliness successions are shot in a hysterical, rough way that frequently darkens what's going on. In any case, it burns through no time getting directly to the activity and knows accurately what kind of film it needs to be – a mindful schlockfest focusing on unadulterated amusement. That is it. No alarms. No subtext. No characters with establishing interest or profundity. Simply silly low quality nourishment served up with an earworm soundtrack played by an evil animatronic band.
Willy's Wonderland doesn't actually bring anything new to the 'endure the evening' frightfulness sub classification, with a fairly unsurprising do this process again recipe. In any case, Lewis has quite loads of fun with it, as Cage's pinball wizard serves the hairy fuzzies various silly bleeding beatdowns. The 'baffling calm town in no place guarding a stunning mystery' is consistently a charming set up, and Lewis adds a fittingly insane backstory to the animatronic animals and the diversion community. Amidst grants season and the ensuing substantial going dramatizations, it's invigorating to see a chief so happily accepting the silliness, completely playing into the commonplace ghastliness sayings for an engaging and entertaining hour and a half ride.
Final Word - Willy's Wonderland highlights frail characters, yet it exploits its wacky idea and gives an engaging ride. Indeed, even with a restricted battleground and a discourse free Cage, it conveys an engaging bad dream for faction film fans tingling for this sort of violent strangeness.
Wacky and Bizzare On-screen Experience!
