Bands on the Run



Bands on the Run is a 2011 animated comedy adventure direct-to-DVD film directed by Charles Mason and based off the Silly Bandz line of toys. The film was produced by Elastic Productions and Perfect Weekend. It was also distributed by Entertainment One.

Plot
Five Silly Bandz (a flower, a rockstar, a lightbulb, a television and an airplane) fall off a delivery truck and have to find to their way to a toy store.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) This film is a rip-off of Toy Story, and it shows.
 * 2) Horrendous, ugly and downright unfinished animation. The Silly Bandz characters look nothing like the actual product itself, and just look like random things with weird borders.
 * 3) Terrible sound effects and voice acting.
 * 4) The transitions are absolutely ridiculous and unpredictable.
 * 5) Non-existent and predictable plot.
 * 6) Copyrighted images appear throughout the film, due to the animation being outsourced from China. There is also a picture of Pikmin on a photo frame model, and mind if we tell you that the creators of this film did not have permission from Nintendo to sneak that image in??
 * 7) It permanently killed all plans for a movie franchise based on Silly Bandz.
 * 8) False Advertising: On the back of the DVD cover, you may see the screenshots (from the movie) were drawed, and you think it's from the movie, and you're wrong, it's not the screenshots from the movie, those are hand drawn screenshots that are not from the movie.
 * 9) It has absolutely nothing to do with the Silly Bandz brand of products at all.
 * 10) Error: The baby in one scene is bigger than the shopping cart. The baby shouldn't be bigger than the cart.
 * 11) Bland characters with little to no personality apart from making puns on what they're shaped like.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) The concept art shown in the credits is okay. Sadly, it was executed poorly.

Trivia

 * Unsurprisingly, according to Pan Pizza, nobody involved with the movie had any passion for it. The American crew was well aware that the movie would be horrible, and only did it to gain experience. The Chinese animation studio used to make it scammed the producers by submitting low-quality animation after two months. The producers were more interested in rushing the movie (so that it'd release while Silly Bands were still popular) than actually making it good.

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