Rent The Banana Splits Movie (2019)
2.5 of 5 from 126 ratings
1h 26min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Nine-year-old Harley (Finlay Wojtak-Hissong) and his family attend a taping of his favourite variety kids' show. 'The Banana Split's, unaware that its eponymous animatronic rock band just learned their show has been cancelled - and the band's not gonna let that happen. As the Banana Splits break from their programming and wreak havoc all over the soundstage, the body count rises. Harley, his mum and their new pals must escape the Splits or remain their audience...forever.
- Actors:
- Dani Kind, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Romeo Carere, Steve Lund, Maria Nash, Naledi Majola, Richard White, Sara Canning, Celina Martin, Kiroshan Naidoo, Keeno Lee Hector, Lia Sachs, Lionel Newton, Daniel Fox, Eric Bauza, Buntu Plam, Jenna Saras, Terry Sauls, Avashan Singh, Lily Spangenberg
- Directors:
- Danishka Esterhazy
- Producers:
- Adam Friedlander
- Voiced By:
- Eric Bauza
- Writers:
- Jed Elinoff, Scott Thomas
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/08/2019
- Run Time:
- 90 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing, French, Latin American Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- The Banana Splits: Behind the Horror
- Terror on Set
- Breaking News! The Banana Splits Massacre
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Reviews (2) of The Banana Splits Movie
Just Bananas ! - The Banana Splits Movie review by porky
Pretty Fun Slasher Movie about Our Favourite Puppet Characters from the 60's being Damaged Killer Robots .
Not Bad Special Effects or Basic Story Line , Sadly some Really Terrible Acting makes it seem Much Worse than it actually is .
Entertaining enough for a few watches.
Good to see they got the Splits looking Bang On Perfect . Would have been Unforgivable had they got them looking Wrong .
4 out of 4 members found this review helpful.
Flipping like a pancake, popping like a cork (mild spoilers ) ... - The Banana Splits Movie review by NP
Updating children’s favourites The Banana Splits from their late 1960s television show, into rampaging robotic killers, could have gone either way. As it is, I had a great 86 minutes with this, although the omission of the ‘Banana Vac’ character from the original (a truly creepy moose-head that hangs over the doorway with light-bulbs either side of his head) is a missed opportunity. He was the most frightening one of all!
The idea of making Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky into robots is a development I was in two minds about. Seeing them move in stilted ‘robotic’ ways looks awkward and unconvincing (I can’t believe I’m reprimanding a Banana Split for being unconvincing – and that’s the beauty of this; it’s almost critique-proof, so bizarre is the premise), but seeing them in half shadow, with half their faces ripped off, revealing a bright red robotic eye is the stuff true childhood nightmares are made of.
The balance is rather good. Lines like, “Tear those fuzzy b******s apart,” and “We’re about to go on-air, and I’m a Split short,” are laugh-out-loud funny, and some of the adult human characters are exaggerated to ridiculous lengths so their flaws and stupidity is more cartoon-like than the Splits themselves, but – and this surely can’t be a spoiler – kills occur, and when they do, they are played straight and treated seriously. And gruesomely. But because the characters are so extreme (some less pleasantly than others), you don’t feel too guilty about cheering when they are dispatched. The juveniles are appealing, which doesn’t always happen. Some of the grown-ups are intentionally irritating – but not for long.
The pacing sometimes flags, but when the characters are on screen – especially when they are committing atrocities in front of a live studio audience of screaming children – it’s difficult to look away. Great fun. 8 out of 10.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.