Introduction:

The film is set in the thriving village of Malaria, whose economy is based almost exclusively on agriculture. When a mysterious change in climate causes Malaria’s crops to wilt, the people are impoverished, allowing the newly-risen leader styling himself “King Malbert” (Jay Leno) to propose a new economy based on the creation of increasingly sophisticated, bizarre, monstrous, terrifying inventions, an idea that soon becomes the community’s cultural core. Thereafter the inventors of frightening machines, who are known as “Evil Scientists”, become the ruling class and are depicted overall as commanding, arrogant figures. Those born with a hunch on the back (an evidently common deformity) are forced to become laboratory assistants nicknamed “Igor”, who are treated as an oppressed lower class and often thought stupid by the Evil Scientists who employ them. The protagonist of the film is an Igor (John Cusack) who is scientifically intelligent, despite being shunned by his own master, Doctor Glickenstein (John Cleese). This Igor brings a cynical rabbit named Scamper (Steve Buscemi) back to life from death and has made him immortal, much to Scamper’s chagrin. Igor also transplants a human brain into a life-support robot, which is thereafter nicknamed ‘Brain’ (Sean Hayes), jokingly referred as “Brian” due to a spelling error on the jar.