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It's Nicholas Cage beating up 'puppets'. Banana Splits did something similar but was much much better than this terribly conceived piece of content. The production design is awful, the cinematography is atrocious with obligatory and gratuitous shaky cam. This really is bordering on a scam to take your money as a premium offering on the now monetary driven lucrative streaming services. Don't fall for it. Nicholas Cage has a fan base and yes he pulls some funny faces but this is just lazy, pedestrian film making that needs to stop. Avoid unless the production team have sent you a screener to watch while you're taking a dump.

Why on earth Nicolas Cage would be in on one of the worst B movie straight out of the 80's.

Does he need money that much? Or it's just that he is seeking he's past glory?

And the music... seriously...

When i saw the trailer for this movie i was exited to see it and when i saw it was added to netflix i couldn't wait to see it.

But this movie was terrible.

The acting was incredibly mediocre and cheesy and there was no character development at all.

I watched this movie hoping i would enjoy it but turns out its the worst movie i've ever seen.

The directing was incredibly cheesy and Nicholas cage's character "The Janitor" had no dialog or personnality what so ever.

If your planning on watching this DON'T WATCH IT.

This movie was 1h 28 mins that i will never get back.

This was trash...real g'barge!

It couldn't even save itself by being 'so bad, it's good', it's just bad!

What we're all witnessing, is the slow...and painful to watch, demise of Nicolas Cage.

Cage silently cleans, drinks pop, plays pinball, kills a furry robot, repeat.

All happening over the laziest backstory, full of plot holes and awkwardly put together.

Filmmakers can't get lazier than this, that's for sure.

What's the absolute point of that? Did NC fund the whole thing just for the craic? Did someone think they were onto a winner with that, or are they just massaging egos? Absolute pants, perhaps trying to achieve modern cult status, but just a disappointing fail.

Is Cage desperate or what? Can't believe some of the high ratings, this movie is just plain stupid. Do not waste your time unless you are really bored or high.

Not the worst movie I've seen. But it's pretty far down the list.

Ppl giving this nonsense "10" have gotta be high. Acting is terrible. Camera frequently zooms in on nothing, having the "target" WAAAY off center and mostly out of frame.

It's not "campy". It's not "zaney". It's just... bad. And dull. It's cage punching costumes.

I gave it a 2, as it's almost interesting... until something happens. Basically every scene is ruined by any of the characters appearing in it.

If people believe this movie is "good", or "funny"... or even remotely enjoyable... we're not far off from the "#1 movie" played within the movie 'Idiocracy'.

Not great, even with the goofy weirdness of The general premise and Nic Cage's performance.

Just a predictable and (intentionally) campy plot interspersed with the occasional bonking of a robot. But the funny parts and violent parts weren't great enough to make this more than a 5/10 (just a movie), and some other choices like the weird fisheye on the edges of the screen and not giving Cage any campy one-liners brings this movie down a peg.

What has become of you Nicolas?? You used to be in such awesome movies, but now you're fighting animatronic monkeys with a toilet plunger and slapping animatronic alligators... Such a waste of talent... This movie is truely awful.

Nicholas Cage is a mute who is 60 but pretending to be 30 with his died black goatee and (usual) bad wig. He gets locked in a "Chuck E Cheese" type building and "fights' robot characters. It's so absurd and boring at the same time. He's cleaning the place, a character comes alive, he fights it, then goes back to cleaning like this is an every day occurrence. Repeat this over and over.

Once the cliched group of high school kids arrived, I had to stop, it was unwatchable. It wasn't funny, it wasn't entertaining. It was beyond stupid. Cage was also a producer on this. I'm not sure why.

Painful on numerous levels. I don't get a lot of the praise I read here.

Now I know Nic Cage has been choosing a lot of bad roles since his US tax problems to help pay the bills but perhaps he is choosing movies based on how outlandish they are and perhaps, just perhaps he choose this one because he does not have to speak a single word in the movie (Yes is this a first?), so perhaps this attracted him to it? Along with the out there premise? I always like to give everyone the benefit of the doubt as Nic is indeed a very individual and unique actor, unlike any of the usual Hollywood clones - Then again, perhaps it was because he only had to take on 30 mins worth of acting (If you can call cleaning toilets and smashing up animatronic puppets acting?). Who knows but he is as mad as a hatter, that no on can disagree with and which adds to his allure as an actor but this choice was not a good one and that is putting it mildly!

Nic can still act and pull in the crowds as he has always been a bit of a loner and refuses to be stereotyped with recent movies like Mandy and the excellent Colour Out Of Space but oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, what was he thinking when he took this utter stinker on is anyone's guess. He probably read the script; which in his case would have been a blank page so am sure this would have enticed him and who wouldn't to pick up £50,000 for 30 mins of no acting required, just smashing up some puppets and cleaning a toilet bowl or two.

I must admit as a sufferer of OCD i was most impressed with his excellent attention to detail, cleaning the mirrors and graffiti perfectly with a spectacularly clean result most OCD cleaners would be proud of - Almost worth an extra star! Pardon my sarcasm but that is all I can find to complement in the movie so am clutching a bit at straws here to review this celluloid calamity with any positivity!

The story is completely bonkers, unconvincing even as an experimental project with terrible acting from everyone concerned; even the animatronic puppets were terrible, zero and i mean zero characterization, no scares, no real gore or decent kills and goodness me, it just dragged on and on.

When you start to check the Media Player timeline to see how long it has to go; and I always watch every movie to the end; part of my movie watching OCD but also to give every film a fair shake but this is one of the ones I really wished I could have switched off within 20 minutes.

For once the 1 and 2 star reviews are spot on with this one, it is truly one to be wiped off the bottom of your shoe with extreme prejudice!

"No wonder why Nicolas Cage want to play in this movie, it's because he doesn't have to say anything even a single word and i think that was a really bad decision to make at this character, Cage perfomance is boring, the supporting actor and actress is awful too, i hate the cinematography, sometimes the camera work is like a freaking earthquake, ridiculous story, the only good things in this movie is the ripped off five night's at freddy robot and the teenagers even though all of them perfomance is terrible, but if there is no them this movie could be even worse, so many weird things but i think they doing pretty good job at the robot like i said before, i like the design, i like how they walk but that doesn't help anything, that just one of the two good things in this movie besides that it's a piece of trash, so far Willy's Wonderland is probably the worst movie i've ever watch, i highly don't recommended"

This movie is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. Cage doesn't say a word the entire film, the victims do the dumbest things they possibly could in the lisle of a situation they know is untenable and will likely result in their deaths... The "storyline" is some kind of weird nonsense about the town sacrificing people to possessed animatronics which now house the souls of serial killers?

I don't know... The action sequences are poorly shot, even more poorly choreographed, Ava ultimately stuck fun of of the movie. I mean, it could have been very entertaining with some effort, but none was given, and so it is not. We watched PG: Psycho Goreman right after this, and we loved that... I mean PG is ridiculous, but it's hilarious and clearly a labor of love for 80s and 90s shows imagined through a lens of bizarre humor.

I only bring that up,bbecause that is what it feels they wanted WW to be, but falls short everywhere; its just not a good movie, at all.

I didn't expect a good movie, but what's the point of having Nicholas Cage fight animatronics if he's not going to go ham and chew on scenery the whole movie?

I'm not sure why Nicolas played there, but this movie is a total disaster. Boring, stupid and without any interesting action. Total waste of time.

Sometimes he can pull it right out of the bag and produce an absolutely stonking film however this is not one of them. It is almost as bad as bad Lieutenant, actually, I would say it's probably worse because I turned it off after 30 minutes.

Please can this actor go back to his good old acting roles such as the rock, 8mm, or con air???

I give the movie two stars for two reasons. One is for the interesting concept, having a Chuck-E-Chese meets Child's Play with hints of Five Nights At Freddy's. The second is Nicolas Cage of course because it's Nicolas F'n Cage but that's me being generous. Overall, I found this movie to be underwhelming even for Nicolas Cage. I can see why Cage would be interested because he gets to fight animatronic mascots. But even the fights were bland. It felt like whoever made this movie was just doing their best to compensate for their low budget. I did my best to turn my brain off but I couldn't enjoy it. I know people will complain and argue "What did you expect?"

I'll answer that question with what would've made me enjoy this movie A LOT more than what was given. This movie could've had tons of new MEMEs and GIFs for Nicolas Cage fans to enjoy.

1) Make Nicolas Cage's character actually be a Fictional Version of himself desperately looking for work and he ends up at Willy's Wonderland. Have him speak because Nicolas Cage is known for saying and doing outrageous things. Cage would've given killer one-liners while fighting the animatronics.

2) Have fun with the fight scenes and setting. I would've loved for Cage and the animatronics doing wrestling moves, kung fu moves, and Mortal Kombat-Style Fatalities. All while using the Willy's Wonderland environment. Have them going through tables, the play-pin, slides, etc. If I had a Chuck-E-Cheese setting in my movie, I would use it to my full advantage in every way. They could've cranked it to 11 by having Cage lose his mind and eat one of the animatronics.

3) Have Cage's character progressively lose his mind in a similar fashion as Ash from Evil Dead 2. Then once the teens get involved, Cage has been trapped inside Willy's for so long that he's lost a good chunk of his sanity and tries to kills them not knowing the difference between reality.

4) There was a scene in the actual movie where a pair of teens randomly have sex inside Willy's when they were previously aware of the place's dark history and had a goal to rescue one of their friends. Would've made more sense if there was some Cabin In The Woods element to Willy's with there being an occasional smokescreen that hinder's rational thinking and increases libido. This justifies why the animatronics are successful in killing people and why the teens act stupid.

5) In addition to the drug-inducing smokescreen, Cage is combating the effects with the Energy Drink/Soda Cans he keeps drinking. The movie was focusing on the soda cans as if they were an important aspect to the story. This would also justify why Cage is fighting back but also losing his mind because of the combination of the energy drinks and the smoke is too much to bear.

One of the worst movies ever. Does Nicholas Cage want to be paid extra per word he says? Did they not want to spend the money. Basically like FNAF but Nicholas Cage kills the anamtronics.

How can you go wrong with an Nicholas Cage movie? Well you can and they did.

Like others said - If your thing is cheesy B-horror flicks you'll probably love this. If your thing is Nicholas Cage movies you'll be sorely disappointed.

I'm in the last group and oh how the mighty have fallen.

So bad I could not even describe it!

Nicolas Cage on this movie is a real question mark. It is also giving me a bad view of the guy.

It is low budget and somebody forgot to read the script twice as there were so many mistakes I lost count.

Watch it if you do not have internet and the only movie available is this one!

The only good thing about this film is the fact that an awful actor like Cage doesn't say a word in it. 👏 The storyline is laughable and should be down as a comedy movie not horror.

Don't waste your time with this unless you haven't got any paint to watch dry ............