Jackster's Big Movie

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***Jackster's Big Movie*** is a 2018 British animated comedy adventure film directed by Jack Evans. It is the second Plotagon film he made, following *The Lizzie Movie*. The film features Jackster in the lead role and twelve other plotagonists in supporting roles. The plot revolves around an inventor named Humberto who finds a long-hidden cloning machine and plans on using it for world conquest with a clone army, leaving it up to Jackster2511 and his friends to put an end to his plans.

With Jackster's desire to strengthen his fanbase, he started production on the film in November 2017. It was a fan-centered project, meaning other plotagonists got to participate in the film and have their own equipment for use within the feature.

When the film was completed on May 30, 2018, it was a critical and commercial success. However, when the Plotagon community was moved away from the Plotagon website in November 2018, the film became a lost film because Jackster did not want to post it to YouTube due to copyrighted music tracks that were used in the movie. On October 5, 2020, a friend of Jackster's, DBG Channel, posted a video on YouTube comprised of screenshots from the film. Jackster posted a comment there announcing a recreation cut that would restore the film. The recreation cut was completed on December 7, 2020, and premiered on YouTube on December 30, 2020 to a now mixed to positive reception. Not long after the film was initially released, Jackster wanted to start production on a sequel, *Jackster's BIGGER Movie*, but cancelled it because many more plotagonists would audition for a role in the film, leading to many delays and production issues.

As of February 18, 2022, the film is in public domain.

## Plot

An inventor named Humberto in Plotagon City is struggling to sell his inventions because everyone saw them as nothing more than fantasy. He soon finds a cloning machine that was hidden for 90 years and plans to use it for global conquest. To start, he kidnaps a teenager named Jackster2511 and clones him. After a narrow escape, Jackster unsuccessfully tries to tell his friends about Humberto. He is able to change their minds after recording footage of him taking AstralStarPictures to be cloned and then rescuing her. The group sets out to stop Humberto's plans.

After being attacked by the group numerous times while trying to lure innocent people to be cloned, Humberto creates a cloning gun from the programming of the cloning machine. After Jackster and his friends have a satisfying meal at Taco Bell, Jackster gets separated from the group when a giant robot created by Humberto captures him. Humberto then forces Jackster to reveal that his friends were on their way to Humberto's old base and captures them to be cloned. Jackster, believing himself to be a failure, buys a train ticket to leave Plotagon City. Meanwhile, Mtndewmlg calls Jackster to confront him with his betrayal, only to be told that Jackster was not really working with Humberto and is leaving Plotagon City. With that news, Mtndewmlg urges Jackster to hurry back and fix the damage he has caused.

In this period, Humberto has created even more clones from innocent strangers on the streets of Plotagon City. Upon his return to Plotagon City, Jackster meets up with his friends, who have just escaped from their predicament, and fights the evil clone army that Humberto has formed, with the assistance of TheBlueCat's clone army (which was never mentioned in any portion of the film before the climax). The clone army was diminished, mostly due to the destruction of the cloning machine, and Humberto attempts to escape, only to be captured by the police thanks to Mtndewmlg's tracking devices, and put in jail for his crimes. With the defeat of Humberto, Jackster and his friends celebrate by having an all-you-can-eat buffet from the Plotagon City Pizzeria.

## Characters

Jackster Does Plotagon (then called Jackster2511) - The protagonist of the film

Humberto - A poor inventor who plans to take over the world using a clone army made from an old cloning machine.

**Plotagonists Alongside Jackster**

* AstralStarPictures
* Alpaca127
* DanielTheSpy
* FanboyGrodan
* McBag
* Mtndewmlg
* TheBlueCat
* TheTruthOf3456710OrTheLoudLocation
* TheVampireIsDead
* ThanosQuack
* MustardPrinter478
* Rhonda (not a plotagonist, but a character created by DeadWoodFilms which resembles a base point for creating a new Plotagon character)

Jackster and his friends, as well as a host of other characters, have evil clones created by Humberto. Other characters include skeletons at the graveyard where Humberto formerly resided and many police officers. Stock characters, such as Carla, also appear in the film. At the end of the film, Kevin from *The Lizzie Movie* makes a brief appearance. DBG Channel was offered a role in the movie, but he rejected in fear of his character not being portrayed well. With the film's planned sequel, DBG accepted the offer to have a role there, but the sequel was cancelled, thereby ruining such chances.

## Release

Jackster wanted his fanbase on Plotagon to grow, so he started production on *Jackster's Big Movie* in November 2017. He allowed other plotagonists to audition for supporting roles in the film and gave them certain equipment according to their desires. Nowadays, this leads to Jackster's opinion of the characters being overpowered or hatable. This also led to dated humor and overly-long scenes.

The film was finally completed on May 30, 2018. However, when the Plotagon community moved away from its site in November 2018, the film became a lost film because Jackster did not want to upload to YouTube due to copyrighted songs that were inserted into the film, such as "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" by Elmo and Patsy. On October 5, 2020, Jackster's friend DBG Channel uploaded to YouTube a compilation of screenshots from the film. In a comment on that video, Jackster announced the recreation of the film while also sharing his current overwhelmingly negative opinion on the film. The recreation premiered on YouTube on December 30, 2020.

## Reception

### Critical response

When the film was initially released, it was a critical and commercial success, more so than *The Lizzie Movie.* Even Jackster himself thought the film was flawless. Of course, this did not last with the release of the recreation cut. The film now has a mixed to positive reception. Out of 127 assessments from the like/dislike button system, 70% of reactions were positive (89 likes and 38 dislikes).

Sammy Knight posted in the comment section: "What an abomination to mankind. The only good part of the film is the animation. The characters: hatable. The jokes: dated and not the least bit funny, especially not the running jokes. The story: dumb. Goodness gracious! This movie has sunken ridiculously low as much as it could!" TheNinjaGuy Studios says, "JBM is absolutely abysmal. There’s a ton of scenes that DRAG ON AND ON, I have don’t have that many issues with product placement but in this film THERES TO MANY, and there I a ton of unexplained things such as how that blue haired guy had that random clone army, and And how did Humberto survive driving off a cliff?!?!?!?!? And in this movie, there’s too many people in this film, overall, this gets fat 3/10" When the film initially came out, DBG Channel gave the film a 9.9/10, but after the premiere of the recreation cut, he has posted a re-review of the movie. In it, he concludes, "This movie has problems left, right, and center! It has unlikable characters, filler, a cliched storyline, and many more issues that I didn't mention because this video would be two years long! I am so happy that I never auditioned for this film! And I am also happy that there will never be a sequel to this trainwreck!" His new score is 1.5/10. A comment on said review agrees. Adventure King 1000 types, "Yeah. I saw this film. I spotted a few Cliches. My least favorite mainly is Fanboy Grodan. Plus, He does not get enough screen time." Certain cast members of the film like JPW, mtndewmlg and TheBlueCat (now known as Technekz on YouTube), also dislike the film.

As for the positive reactions, TRAVELLER gave the film an 8/10, KM Young gamer reacted positively towards the film, and JetPlayzRB and VIVID GECKO said the film "wasn't that bad".

### Accolades

 Worst Actress
 Worst Supporting Actor
 Worst Supporting Actress
 Worst Screenplay
 Best Visuals

## Cancelled Sequel

The film's initial success lead to development of a sequel, titled *Jackster's BIGGER Movie*. It was supposed to have the most of the original group of users reprise their roles, along with some new characters, one of the new characters would have been DBG Channel, who initially regretted not being in the first film.

However, the sequel was cancelled because Jackster knew this would lead to delays and production issues because of all the characters he would have to create from other users' auditions.

## Trivia

* While the film has earned mixed reviews from critics at the time of its re-release (according to a 70% rating the film has earned on reception percentages), it was (and still is to this very day) despised by the vast majority of the Plotagon animation press and fan base, being considered both one of the worst animated films of all-time, not just by Plotagon fans but from various movie critics as well, and is often debated against *Cosmopolis* and/or *LazyTown 2: Trashy's Revenge* as the worst film of the Plotagon canon; though it should be noted *LazyTown 2: Trashy's Revenge* has become the less hated out of all three movies due to it having the largest fan base along with *Cosmopolis* (which is a-bit less hated out of all three movies but through reception percentages got 33%.)
* It was the last film produced by Plotagon Pictures before its merger with Plotagon Goldwyn Mayer.
* Following the re-release, JPW said that he would never star in a user-guided film again, and pursued his dream in film directing.