With the exception of films like The Oogieloves and the Fred trilogy, I claim Snoopers (or whatever the movie is even called really) to be one of the stupidest films ever made. Judging by the original title, I understand that the film was originally German given an English dub, but seriously there should be no excuse for such horrible lip sync--a problem that takes me completely out of the element of a movie or show. Speaking of dubbing, the line delivery is no better either. Say what you will about films like The Shaggy Dog or whatever, but at least the actors made their line deliveries more believable and not sound like the actors just learned how to speak the day before filming began--I have literally seen elementary schoolers in a school play deliver better lines than these people. However, that isn't the only problem I have with the movie, as there are others. The film is also lazy. How lazy? About as lazy as having the same actor play both the dead magician and that apothecary (or whatever he is--the movie is too lazy to even establish any clear-cut characters). Granted, there's nothing wrong with an actor taking on multiple roles in a single movie/show, but if you're going to act out two or more characters--each one completely different and unrelated to the other--at least make each of them sound different, especially in a movie like this! But the real frosting on the garbage cake which is this movie are the "Vipers" they supposedly use. I understand that the creators of the film didn't want to hurt anyone, but Pythons? Really? Did the creators truly think we as an audience couldn't see that? Did they think people would be stupid enough to think that a Viper and a Python looked alike? Remember the scene in The Black Stallion when the boy character found himself face-to-face with a real Cobra? You know how they pulled that scene without the actor getting hurt? Glass, that's how--and the film was made in like the early to mid 1970s. What, could the filmmakers not afford a sheet of glass to pull off something like that in ther 1990s dumpster fire film?
Overall, the film had (in my opinion) a very bland plot (the leat offensive thing in the movie believe it or not), especially in comparison to the terrible acting and line delivery, the distractingly bad line-dubbing, and the insultingly awful use of effects. The film deserves nothing higher than a 1/10, and I highly recommend skipping it.
If I could recommend a movie where a group of kids are detectives, I would recommend films like The Goonies, A Series of Unfortunate Events, or The Adventures of Tintin--you can never go wrong with any one of these titles.
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