Existo
“He was a Psycho Marionette and the Devil Pulled His Strings”
Certified Crap. CrapScore 69, rated by 1 admin.
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Artists resist a repressive corporate order through performance, music and deliberately provocative theatre. This independent dystopian musical spends much of its first half simply presenting the acts. Clever songs and a later comic storyline give its scrappy political imagination a lively centre.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 4/10
- Plot
- 9/10
- Effects
- 5/10
- Dialogue
- 8.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 8/10
“The resistance has chosen an unusually theatrical method of political organisation.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 69
Synopsis and movie facts
In this dystopian-musical-comedy, corporations and self-appointed guardians of "decency" and "morality" have society in a fascist choke-hold. It's up to a rag-tag group of actors, artists, and musicians to save the world the only way they know how - through the power of - wait for it - Performance Art! Led by the legendary Existo, his faithful sidekick Maxine, provocateur Marcel, and Vigo, this troupe of subversive insurgents have the Religio-Capitalist Complex in their cross-hairs. But the powers-that-be know Existo's weak spot - his ravenous libido - and seek to exploit it to derail the Revolution with a secret weapon - a curly-haired corporate-pop singer named Penelope.
- Released
- 1999
- Directed by
- Coke Sams
- Running time
- 94 min
Starring
- Bruce Arntson as Existo
- Jackie Welch as Maxine
- Mark Cabus as Roupen Dupree
- Jim Varney as Marcel Horowitz
- Gailard Sartain as Colette Watchuwill
- Mike Montgomery as Armand Glasscock
- Matthew Carlton as Jacques Patou
- David Alford as Dirk Beverage
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
Canonical film identity, release date, runtime, director credits, cast, genres, synopsis and poster checked against TMDB movie 323582.
- Review · moriareviews.com
The review praises the entertaining songs and finds the later plot funny despite a very loose opening half.
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