6 November 2006 | sir_hotbod_handsomeface
Canadian edit is the only version worth watching.
The re-dubbed American cable edit is absolutely horrible. It rips the heart and soul out of the movie - right from the intro where Mok's code isn't referred to as "satanic", to the removal of almost all of the drug references, and the absolutely horrible replacement voice for Omar (the guy doesn't hold a candle to the original voice actor). Get the 2 disc version from Amazon with the uncensored Canadian version, you won't regret it.. the original movie, as intended.
I think the problem with this movie, ever there ever really was a problem, is that it isn't a kids movie, nor is it particularly well written or clever to be much of an adult's animated feature, but it works well for teenagers (as I was one when I first saw it, many years ago on the CBC late night movie). Given the time the movie was made animation was still thought of as "kid's stuff", or simply dirty (Say Fritz the Cat), and this movie really falls into the grey area between those extremes. Poorly marketed, no doubt, but the American cable edit exists because of this failure to the realize the market.
Mylar was based on an actual comedy club owner Clive Smith knew.
The original print of the movie was destroyed in a fire and all reproductions of the original feature film are re-copied from the original VHS release.
Recorded at George Massenburg Studio, Davien Sound, Hollywood Sound Studio
$30,379 (USA)
6 November 2006 | sir_hotbod_handsomeface
Canadian edit is the only version worth watching.
The re-dubbed American cable edit is absolutely horrible. It rips the heart and soul out of the movie - right from the intro where Mok's code isn't referred to as "satanic", to the removal of almost all of the drug references, and the absolutely horrible replacement voice for Omar (the guy doesn't hold a candle to the original voice actor). Get the 2 disc version from Amazon with the uncensored Canadian version, you won't regret it.. the original movie, as intended.
I think the problem with this movie, ever there ever really was a problem, is that it isn't a kids movie, nor is it particularly well written or clever to be much of an adult's
 animated feature, but it works well for teenagers (as I was one when I first saw it, many years ago on the CBC late night movie). Given the time the movie was made animation was still thought of as "kid's stuff", or simply dirty (Say Fritz the Cat), and this movie really falls into the grey area between those extremes. Poorly marketed, no doubt, but the American cable edit exists because of this failure to the realize the market.
Mylar was based on an actual comedy club owner Clive Smith knew.
The original print of the movie was destroyed in a fire and all reproductions of the original feature film are re-copied from the original VHS release.
Recorded at George Massenburg Studio, Davien Sound, Hollywood Sound Studio
$30,379 (USA)