The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act

Spoilers, of course. The movie starts off with a bit of 4th wall breaking with a ugly fish reappearance to talk about theater etiquette, which is appreciated with an eccentric fanbase like this. And then a message directly from GLITCH about spoiling, pirating, and leaking, unfortunately ironic considering it was leaked a month before it would have been published to YouTube and Netflix. I happened to stay spoiler free just for this early theater release. There is then a funny, not that helpful, mini recap from Caine. I think they included this because they know a lot of viewers…

This is honest upfront about what it is: parts eight and the grand finale of a long running television series and if you haven't seen the previous episodes, this isn't going to make a great deal of sense. Barring a thirty seconds recap and an opening scene that reminded me of Norman McLaren's line-based artwork, that is correct and so for much of the rest of this I had only a developing clue as to what was going on. The gist appears to be that "Caine" - an animated and slightly menacing set of dentures bedecked in a circus-master's costume - is holding some characters captive in his nether…