Plustown
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
Usamah Harvey
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Verity Robins
Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.
NileFortnerBoogieBuddha954
Hell & Back truly does have an all star. We have Mila Kunis, Susan Sarandon, Danny Mcbride, Rob Riggle, Nick Swardson, T.J. Miller, Jennifer Coolidge, J.B. Smoove, Michael Pena, Brian Posehn, David Koechner, and more. Sadly we do not get an all star movie.Hell & Back has some of the workers behind Robot Chicken. I think Robot Chicken is a decent show. On the other hand, we honestly in my opinion have a not so good movie. I personally didn't find it funny, and in my opinion, Robot Chicken is much better.The movie has some nice claymation/stop motion animation behind it. But, the movie itself falls short. The story is there, the talent is there, but the jokes are completely absent. I know comedy is very difficult to write. Writing comedy isn't like writing other films. For instance, a horror movie can have a loose story, but amazing practical effects. With comedy it's either funny or it isn't.I believe this movie could have been much better, and I truly wanted to enjoy it. I personally wouldn't pay $ to see this. Wait until it is streaming or something. I don't even know if I can say this legally, but you can just bootleg this sh*t, if you want to see it. However, I saw the whole film on Youtube for free, and it really isn't worth the time.So these are my final Bitchin' Buddha thoughts on Hell & Back. With some new and clever jokes, this film could have gotten two thumbs up, and have been a cult classic. If you like this film, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I believe the jokes could have just been a little better. I believe Hell & Back earns a...4/10.This review is brought to you by Boogie Buddha, and remember, don't just get down, but get Boogie. Thank you for reading and viewing. I wish you an amazing day as always. :)
Neddy Merrill
You wonder what the attraction is for the makers for "Chicken Run", "Box Trolls" and for the Bro Comedy "Hell and Back" to stop motion animation. It's not as if going through the painstaking and laborious process automatically yields a visual character superior to less labor- intensive production methods. So why not just make it a cartoon? Anyway, the plainly descriptive-titled "Hell and Back" lifts the way Satan from South Park is rendered whole, gives him "Breaking Bad's" Bob Odenkirk's voice and drops him in a bro comedy. There he trades the standard bro jokes (mostly homosexual panic quips) with the slackers who inadvertently fall into his underground realm. None of it is terribly entertaining but there are enough laughs to make it all fairly innocuous.
TheDragonDane
I have never seen so much talent go to waste with possibly one of the most unfunny, uninspired, boring, empty hollow script I have ever seen. How did this get green lit who in their right mind would read this script and sacrifice all their time, effort and talent to be in this? I honestly wonder if they are personally ashamed of themselves.These writers so thick in the head actually think adult humour is nothing but spamming the f word and saying penis over and over again. That's the movie there's not even a story to fall back on.It is the most desperate attempt of adult jokes I've ever seen. And That's the only thing the films going for…. Nothing else but telling jokes which is an awful decision for ANY filmThis is what someone would assume South Park/Superbad were like just by a quick glance. Without understanding there's more depth to the raunchy jokes. Nothing in the script works, the characters are empty one dimensional shells just to tell a joke... One character is an unlikable jerk, another one is fat, another one smokes weed, and another one is horny..... HAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!! The story is stretched so thin and one of those, "setup with nothing else going for it" type of films.The most disgusting part of this movie is it's advertised as an adult film while it treats us like children. When in reality most mainstream animated films are pretty mature in the first place. So what is this trying to prove?The best thing I can say about the film is like I said, the voice talent, animation, set design and art direction. Its perfect proof that great presentation can never save an abysmal script and It will ruin the experience for pretty much everyone. This film is an insult to those who pulled their weight and put effort in this project.I'm actually sorry about saying all those awful things about, Grown Ups 2, Jack and Jill, Doogal, Not Cool and even Tusk. Those movies are freaking masterpieces compared to this thing and that is saying a lot. This movie just ticked me off.... Because literally in the first 6 minutes of this 86 MINUTE MOVIE I was already done and regretting my decision to sit through this..... I persisted at 1.5 speed and it still was torture. Glad this was a flop and how nobody knows about it.Everyone involved should be personally ashamed of themselves. This film appeals to nobody….This is the worst stop motion movie I've ever seen and the worst movie I've seen in my entire life as of 1/11/16. (Coming from 1000+ films)1/10 And that 1 point is just to be generous to the people who tried to make the best out of this.
Clayton Holloway (Darkhorse_Knight)
Hell and Back might just be the best Stoner Comedy-Adult Claymation that takes place in Hell...only because it's the ONLY one. Okay, now to be fair with this, I will say that the voice work of this film is...alright. The jokes vary from hit-and-miss (mostly though, they miss). The adult content has been amped up so much that it feels they just broke it off to see if it can go higher. Yes, this one of the raunchiest movies I've ever seen. Not just this year, period.The story is about 3 'Bros' who work at a piece of crap of a ghetto carnival. While trying to figure out how to save it from being foreclosed, one of the main characters named Remy(Nick Swardon) locates a book of Beelzebub within the fortune teller's shack, and starts to get interested in it. Soon, his friends Augie(T.J. Miller) and Curt(Rob Riggle) show up, and Remy forces them in to some kind of satanic ritual over a mint. I wish I was kidding. Soon, Curt breaks his oath for not having a mint, and so he ends up going to Hell, and it's up to our two bro-tagonists to come and save the poor man from the Devil(Bob Odenkirk)Now, the biggest problem with the film is dealing with the likability of our main characters, especially Remy. Remy is one of the worst written character's I've seen in a movie to date. He isn't funny in his jerkiness, he's just a bloody douche. Not only is he bad, but another character named Orpheus(played by Danny McBride) is just as badly written, if not worse then Remy. And these two BOND in their overblown, flanderized nature. Also, the Devil, for being the whole 'Prince of Darkness' and all, is very underwhelming. His jokes aren't funny in the slightest, and he has this other form where he's dressed like a hipster and it's stupid as hell. or in this case, stupid as there.Jokes are a big part of comedy, and they need to be quick as so the audience can't think to hard on them, otherwise you risk having the audience unravel it and finding a sort of fridge horror behind it. Jokes in this movie drag out for too long, even the legitimately funny ones, and they feel rushed as a result. A noteworthy series of the good ones involve a suffering spirit trying to take punishments from a demon, but the punishments are really subpar and no big deal, and the demon ends it with "Heh heh, Welcome to Hell." However, those jokes are vastly outnumbered by toilet humor that feels like it belongs in a bad kid's movie, and stoner comedy that feels like the throwaway gags ripped from that movie American Ultra.However, I can't help but see some light in the dark of this film. The animation looks OK, the music is good(and that includes the songs Orpheus sings), and the design of Hell is pretty good for what they got. I also found that the implied romance between Augie and the half-succubus Deema to feel nice and a good mold breaker towards the rest of the film's mediocrity. It's surprisingly traditional given that the demon herself is literally a female sex-crazed monstrosity. But, she and Augie are the closet we get to likable characters.This is a big disappointment for me and for those who want to see a smartly written comedy. "Hell and Back", however, lived up to it's name. I wish it were better, but it's still an underwhelming, mediocre stoner film that just so happens to be claymation and in hell.
