From Transmorphers to The Fast and the Fierce, the mockbuster market is flooded with shameless low-budget imitations of popular Hollywood movies.
The moviegoing market is flooded with “mockbusters” that rip off the plots and characters of popular Hollywood blockbusters with inferior actors, visual effects, and overall filmmaking. Mockbusters usually feature a very similar title, storyline, and poster art to a recent Hollywood hit in a sneaky attempt to trick viewers looking for the latest blockbuster into watching the wrong movie.
19 The Little Panda Fighter The Brazilian animation studio Vídeo Brinquedo is notorious for making knock-offs of popular animated movies with much cruder animation and much less imaginative storytelling. The Little Panda Fighter, their rip-off of Kung Fu Panda, is a prime example.
15 Atlantic Rim The Asylum’s answer to Pacific Rim was named after a different oceanic rim: Atlantic Rim. With its story of humans in giant robotic suits fighting kaiju monsters, Atlantic Rim borrowed everything from Pacific Rim – it even borrowed its iconic scene of a robotic suit crashing down on the beach . Without Guillermo del Toro’s visionary eye behind the camera, it’s just robots smashing into monsters.
12 Ratatoing Vídeo Brinquedo’s mockbuster version of Ratatouille, Ratatoing, tells a similar story about a rat who dreams of being a chef and sneaks into restaurants to collect ingredients. Ratatoing is missing the heart and humanity that made Ratatouille a masterpiece, not to mention its awe-inspiring visuals.
9 The Da Vinci Treasure Released in the same month as Ron Howard’s blockbuster film adaptation of The Da Vinci Code, The Asylum’s The Da Vinci Treasure revolves around treasure hunters following clues left in the works of Leonardo da Vinci to a secret that could alter Christianity. The mockbuster plays more like National Treasure than The Da Vinci Code, with flagrant historical inaccuracies and lazy storytelling.
5 The Fast And The Fierce The Asylum was late to the game with its rip-off of The Fast and the Furious franchise. The Fast Saga was on its eighth installment by the time The Asylum made its own version: The Fast and the Fierce. Despite taking its title from the Vin Diesel street racing franchise, it has very little in common with it.
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