IMDb plot summary: A quiet drifter is tricked into a janitorial job at the now condemned Willy's Wonderland. The mundane tasks suddenly become an all-out fight for survival against wave after wave of demonic animatronics. Fists fly, kicks land, titans clash -- and only one side will make it out alive.
Directed by Kevin Lewis. Starring Nicolas Cage, Emily Tosta, Beth Grant, and Ric Reitz.
This is absolutely ridiculous. The premise alone is ludicrous, but then we do actually get these amazing scenes of Nicolas Cage wordlessly battling animatronic gorillas or ostriches or whatever else there is, and it's just a whirlwind of goofy. It is the right kind of goofy, though. It's just having a very good time playing around with this concept and letting it be exactly as ridiculous as it sounds. If anything, the ever-so-slightly more grounded subplots of the teenagers drag it down a little bit, but not much, and it all ends with a truly satisfying climactic scene. This movie knows exactly what it wants to be and goes for it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Willy's Wonderland > Fahrenheit 451
Willy's Wonderland < Dark Passage
Willy's Wonderland > Fantasia 2000
Willy's Wonderland > The Artist
Willy's Wonderland < Manhattan Murder Mystery
Willy's Wonderland > Inside Llewyn Davis
Willy's Wonderland > The Hudscucker Proxy
Willy's Wonderland < The Fantasticks
Willy's Wonderland > Kursk
Willy's Wonderland < Frankenweenie
Willy's Wonderland > An American Werewolf in London
Final spot: #971 out of 3391, or 71%.
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