Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth Movie Information:

Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth Directed by: Simon DaVision Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth Written by: Simon DaVision Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth Cast: James Vaughan, Tamsin Greig, Richard Leaf, Mark Heap, Lindsay Carr, Nick Mellersh, Grant Russel, Krisna Kumari-Bowles, Josephine Welcome, Alexander Andrew, Olivia Hill, Mary Myers

Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth U.S. Distributor: Not available at this time Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth U.K. Distributor: ICA Films

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Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth Synopsis:

Essentially, the obsolete, old-school Captain Eager (Vaughan) is returned to service to help mega-corporation MacroSpace investigate a renegade client, Eager's old nemesis Colonel Regamun (Leaf). But this is all a trap for Eager, who teams with his old flame Jenny (Grieg) and his faithful sidekick Professor Moon (Mellersh) to follow the Mark of Voth to a mysterious temple where Regamun and his sexy assistant Carmina (Carr) are up to something.

Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth Movie Review:

Filmed in "thrilling Card-o-Vision", this sci-fi mash-up is goofy enough to keep more adventurous audiences entertained. But just a bit of attention to the plot might have given it real cult status.

The plot is so nonsensical that a computer called Expositionite is on hand to explain things (although even that acknowledges that it's convoluted and implausible). Essentially, the obsolete, old-school Captain Eager (Vaughan) is returned to service to help mega-corporation MacroSpace investigate a renegade client, Eager's old nemesis Colonel Regamun (Leaf). But this is all a trap for Eager, who teams with his old flame Jenny (Grieg) and his faithful sidekick Professor Moon (Mellersh) to follow the Mark of Voth to a mysterious temple where Regamun and his sexy assistant Carmina (Carr) are up to something.

Frankly, it's utterly impossibly to follow the story, which has more gaping holes in it than it has actual plot. Characters appear and disappear at random (including Scamp the Rocket Dog), settings change unrecognisably and everything's so busy and chaotic that we're actually stunned into deep boredom about 45 minutes in. And yet, there's something entertaining here as well, as the cast and crew mix retro, Plan 9-style production values with cheap computer effects and some hysterical sight gags.

The film is a collision between the two worlds: Eager's 1950s vintage sci-fi universe of cardboard sets and storylines that are made up as they go along versus elaborate computer-generated cityscapes, mega-villains and even a ludicrously politically correct plot resolution. This is accompanies by hilariously cheesy dialog ("An honest heart can never fail!") and explosive on-screen titles ("Treachery!"), along with witty references to everything from Buck Rogers to Star Trek.

Shot over four years in the director's garage, the best thing about the film is its tacky production design. But without a story or characters that make any sense, it's impossible to engage with it on any level. They just about pull it off with the peace-and-love finale, but not quite. We're left to just laugh at it as an oddity, as we smile knowingly at the nutty juxtaposition of wobbly sets with elaborate digital effects. And sometimes those wobbles are added digitally.

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Captain Eager And The Mark Of Voth review written by: Rich Cline