The Chosen One (2008)
Directed by Chris Lackey
Written by Chad Fifer, Chris Lackey
Starring Laura Prepon, Chris Fifer, Chris Sarandon, Tim Curry, Danielle Fishel Lance Hendrickson
Release Date Unknown
Published December 8th, 2008
A WOC listener friend of mine gave me a DVD a while back. It's an animated movie directed by his son. I promised I would give it look. Now several months later I have finally watched the slacker meets religion flick The Chosen One and I wish I hadn't waited so long.
This irreverent little animated flick doesn't reinvent the wheel but it's a solid 80 minute distraction with humor along the irreverent line of the good folks at Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Snarky, talky, low budget satire with just a hint of blasphemy.
Our hero is Lou (Voice of Chris Fifer) a loser who just got dumped by his gal pal Rachel (Voice of Laura Prepon) and was fired from his job, cleaning test tubes for some science factory where his best pal Donna (Danielle Fishel) had moved earth to get him a gig that he promptly fumbled.
After losing his girl and his job Lou's luck goes from bad to worse when a Chinese satellite falls on his car and he's attacked by a bear. All of this bad luck leads Lou to join his buddy Zeb (Chris Sarandon), a senior citizen who share's Lou's apartment, at some scam religious gathering.
There Lou finds out that he is The Chosen One and he must travel to Kansas to stand on a mountain, more of a hill really, and hear the voice of god. So, with the help of Zeb and Donna, who's the only person he knows with a car, Lou sets out for Kansas
Trailing him are a team of super religious assassins and helping out is Satan voiced with liquid loquaciousness by Tim Curry. The Chosen One has wild, irreverent sense of humor that combines outlandishness, geek culture and blasphemy for a terrifically good time.
The animation is amateur at best but the low budget aesthete is not really all that important. The Chosen One flies on its rolling sense of humor. The college crowd will eat up the robot ninjas, the hot sci fi chick ex-girlfriend, and especially Tim Curry's devilish Devil.
General audiences will have to get past the religious stuff and if you can stand the impiety you will laugh frequently at the genial, good natured slacker humor of The Chosen One.
Now, where can you find this hidden gem? Try www.TheChosenOneMovie.com
