Claim: Chris McKenna is a writer.

Igor is a 2008 French-American computer-animated science fantasy comedy family film about the stock character Igor who dreams of winning first place at the Evil Science Fair . It was produced by Exodus Film Group and animated by Sparx Animation Studios . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on September 19 , 2008 , and it grossed $ 30.7 million on a $ 25 million budget . It is MGM 's first fully computer-animated film . It was directed by Tony Leondis and written by Chris McKenna , John Hoffman and Dimitri Toscas . The film features the voices of John Cusack , Molly Shannon , Steve Buscemi , Sean Hayes , Jennifer Coolidge , Arsenio Hall , Eddie Izzard , Jay Leno , Christian Slater and John Cleese . The film received an Annie Award nomination for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production .