Computer Warriors (1990) (V)

Regisseur:

Bill Kroyer

Drehbuchautoren:

Bill Kroyer (writer)
Carl Macek (writer)

Genre:

Action | Trickfilm | Familienfilm | Sci-Fi | Kurzfilm

Werbezeile:

Expect the Unexpected!TM

Plot:

When a mechanical arm at Parallax Computer Systems drops a software cartridge and inserts itself in its place...

Nutzerkommentare:

Blatantly ripped off from Tron

Besetzung

Frank Catalano

...

Animatron

Alternativ:

Computer Warriors: The Adventure Begins (USA) (video box title)

Länge:

22 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.33 : 1

Firma:

Kroyer Films

Dialogzitate:

Megahert: Any virus that fires his blaster without my permission will be neutralized by me, FASTER THAN A WOZNIAK, understood?

Blatantly ripped off from Tron

Only one episode of this was produced and aired as an infomercial in local markets. I had vague recollections of this and remembered it mostly because of short-lived toy line that accompanied it.

About a year ago I found out that this was written and produced by Carl Macek, the man behind bringing the series Robotech to the US, so I thought I'd track down a tape.

After seeing it again all these years later, I thought it made for a decent cartoon - something I would have liked to have seen when I was younger. It had some impressive CG for the time and while the story didn't have a lot of depth it delivered a lot of action.

Then, a few nights ago, I re-watched TRON and realized something: COMPUTER WARRIORS is nothing but a blatant rip-off of the concept. You've got good programs fighting bad programs, not to mention the main character's in COMPUTER WARRIORS is Romm, just like Rom from Tron.

There are way too many similarities for this to be coincidence. Had this gone to a series, I could have easily seen the Disney lawyers going after this one.