What's it about: There's a place called Malaria that breeds mad, evil scientists. Most of these scientists have deformed, misshapen assistants known commonly as Igors.

A once-agricultural populace, the people of Malaria now eagerly await the annual Evil Scientist's Fair to show off their instruments of evil.

Of course, as in all civilizations, there's a deeply entrenched class divide and however much one of the hunchbacked Igors (Cusack, to be precise) wants to invent something it takes his master Dr Glickenstein's (Cleese) death for him to put his grand plan into action. World domination? That can wait... the Fair gets higher priority.u00a0

WHAT'S HOT: It helps to have A-List actors voice your main characters, but it also has to be backed by solid dialogues and very funny lines. Which this film delivers in spurts.