Rob Zombie’s first animated feature since The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is a mixture of sugar and spice, muffins and macabre. These are fitting mixtures considering his casting choice for the film’s heroine. Zombie’s ex-stripper, voice actress wife, Sheri Moon voices the film’s protagonist, Hillary Dee. Dee is a tattooed Betty Boop look-a-like. Her behavior is at times endearing, but mostly frustrating. A sweet girl, the young adult often makes terrible mistakes in her search for love after escaping an abusive childhood. Her erratic mood swings are at times unbelievable. Things get twisted when she meets who she believes to be “The one”, aptly named, B. Tre. The unexpected villain is drawn to be reminiscent of a 1950’s cartoon wolf leering at a…
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