Spawn

Episode 130: Spawn (1997)

Theme: Non-Marvel / Non-DC Comic Book Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis conclude Non-Marvel / Non-DC Comic Book Month with Spawn — the CGI fever dream that mixes The Crow × Green Lantern × Doctor Strange × a Lost ICP VHS × Fried Green Tomatoes into one flaming, rubberized, fart-joke-laced descent into 1997 chaos. It’s demons, capes, goo, biker-clown improv, hellfire… and Martin Sheen acting like he lost a bet.

The Movie Marriage: The Crow × Green Lantern × Doctor Strange × ICP × Fried Green Tomatoes

The hosts break down:

• Michael Jai White giving 130% in a movie operating at a confident 14%.
• John Leguizamo chewing more scenery than exists — physically, mathematically, cosmically.
• Martin Sheen attending the Tony Hopkins School of ACTING!! while wearing Rudy Giuliani hair dye.
• A plot that both exists and does not exist, depending on which CGI flame cloud you ask.
• Powers, tone, and rules that rewrite themselves every 8½ minutes, powered by pure necroplasm and writer’s regret.

Final Verdict:

Oz — 13 Fart Jokes from Hell
Curtis — One Michael Jackson Album Cover

Next week: We enter Summer Movies Month with Wet Hot American Summer — the only film where a can of vegetables, a talking motorcycle, and Paul Rudd’s tantrum acting all reach their peak form. Prepare your sweaters.