No one outside of comic book fans probably remembers this movie. Spawn was popular in the early 90s and eventually got a live action movie, two months after the incredibly silly Batman & Robin and two months after the Spawn animated HBO cartoon show came this revenge tale and what it means to be a hero.
Those of us that do remember it probably do for several reasons.
They might remember the bad special effects, or at least some special effects that don't hold up to this day, and barely did even back 30 years ago in 1997. Malebolgia a stand in for the devil, was not much better than a picture someone made on Microsoft paint or something out of the Reboot tv show. The cape was mixed, at times it looked cool, other times it looked completely ridiculous.
They might remember it for Martin Sheen, who had no business being in this movie. The strange plot, where you get to keep someone's soul if you kill them, but they have to kill you first, maybe or something like that. Sheen gets his heart linked to a nuke and the only reason that makes sense at all is that he gets Simmon's soul when Spawn kills Wynn. But for some reason the devil can't see through the hitman's 'pure' heart.
No, why we are here is John Leguizamo's Clown or..
"I'm not the Vindicator, Victimizer, Vaporizor or the Violator"
"I'm the Vibrator!"
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I don't have that quote quite right, but he is dialing it up to 10 here.
John eats a real piece of pizza full of maggots. It's a serious character but also the comic relief.
He starts as a classic clown, becomes a shovel, a cheerleader, Wanda and eventually Violator, which doesn't look too bad compared to some of the other effects in the movie. His transformation scene is obviously one of my favorites.
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