Upland: Ogres

"*It's all ogre now!*"
- Tagline

**Upland: Ogres** is a fantasy action/adventure drama film. It is a sequel to Upland.

## Synopsis

Thousands of years ago, the Elemental Ogres won a battle against the slave-holding Zombi but were banished to Earth. After the Zombi are revived as zombies, the Ogres are recalled to join forces with the warriors of Upland.

## Synopsis

The main antagonist from the last movie, Eyeangle, finds himself shrunken and in a cage at a carnival freak-show on Earth. Eyeangle's second-in-command, Wolfgang, travels to Earth to free him and transports Eyeangle back to Upland via a portal. Eyeangle's return is followed by a flashback to 1,000 years before the events of the film, when Upland was ruled by a malicious race of huge monsters called Zombi. The Zombi forced the inhabitants of Upland, save for white humans, to work as slaves, but the Ogres took a stand and started a war against the Zombi. Soon, the Ogres fought the autocrat of the Zombi and cut off the source of the Zombis' power, the Cadaverous Fist of Zombaite. However, this success backfired on the Ogres, who were sent to Earth to live as powerless humans, their souls only returning when they are needed the most. As time went on, the Ogres were gradually regarded as nothing more than folklore because of their inexplicable vanishing and the revisionism that came as a result.

Back to modern times, Dillon and Tanner Guidesworth are summoned back to Upland, along with Emily and her boyfriend, Riff Pogson, to help fix Nasim Alya's flying ship, the Bad Ol' Ship. The trio meet many new people as they find resources for the ship, including Romo the Homo, who is abducted by Dong Wrestler the gladiator but saved after Dong is defeated. Romo tells Dillon and Emily that Eyeangle has returned and has inadvertently revived an old Zombie Conquistador, which recruits Eyeangle as his new king and searches for the Abandoned Metropolis of Zombaite. The Upland Warriors are thrust into a race against Eyeangle to the Abandoned Metropolis, Romo telling them that he knows a huge zombie that can stop them. While trying to revive the zombie, Dillon finds "Codex" which is the spirit of Ermit's robot, who also helps the Upland Warriors on their quest. Emily and Riff begin to argue and ultimately break up after discovering that Riff date-raped many girls and she was almost one of them.

The Upland Warriors travel to an ancient bank which keeps a map to the metropolis of Zombaite, but Eyeangle gets there first and tries to crush Dillon with an avalanche. Trying to save Dillon, Codex sacrifices herself by protecting him from the falling stones, using her zombie body to do so. Eyeangle and his Zombi break into a vault to find the map, but the map is obliterated, detecting that it was not taken legitimately. Wolfgang memorizes the map in its entirety, however, and finds the location of the abandoned metropolis with Eyeangle's aid. Meanwhile, Codex tells Dillon to chase Eyeangle and find the Abandoned Metropolis of Zombaite, before fading away, dead. As they continue their journey, Dillon, Tanner, and Emily meet a prophet and face their worst sins; Emily is unable to contend with the fact that she killed a baby as a toddler.

Despite the Upland Warriors trying to reach the Abandoned Metropolis of Zombaite first, Eyeangle reaches the Cadaverous Fist of Zombaite and fuses into a sizable Zombi, preparing his genocidal conquest over Upland. Dillon and Emily soon reach Eyeangle within the Metropolis of Zombaite, only to learn that the zombie dictator is invincible unless the Cadaverous Fist of Zombaite is torn off of him. With the aid of Romo and Pogson, controlling the body once inhabited by Codex, Emily and Dillon almost sever the fist until Emily has her power drained after a brutal beating and Pogson is shot in the forehead and killed. However, Dillon and his Upland Warriors are able to rip off the Fist of Zombaite, returning Eyeangle to his typical form and preventing him from leading his Zombi soldiers past this point. The Zombie Conquistador carries Eyeangle and Wolfgang out of the crumbling metropolis and to the safety of a floating isle before dying. Dillon, Tanner, and Emily return to Earth and someone new takes Emily's place.

In a post-credits scene, Eyeangle and Wolfgang enter his acropolis where they find Eyeangle's mother, who is only seen in silhouette, the scene ending before anything else happens. In another post-credits scene, Ravenous Beasts have a dance party around the dismembered Cadaverous Fist of Zombaite.

## Parents Guide

### **Sex & Nudity**

Mild

* Two invisible characters (only identifiable by their eyewear) are briefly seen performing a sexual act; nothing is shown but it's clear what happened.
* A few of the women in the film speak and act seductively.
* Some of the characters wear tight clothes, and some (mostly non-humanoid) creatures are shown completely nude but without genitalia.
* The term "hentai MC" is used in reference to a character's hair but there's no sexual connotation.
* Riff tries to spike Emily's drink; he fails but he makes it clear that he's raped girls through this method before.
* Playful comments about Emily’s curves are made by her mother, including a use of “tits.”
* Emily’s clothes are torn off by Eyeangle and it is heavily implied that he is going to make her father remove her lingerie but he is stopped before this happens, we see cleavage.
* The teleportation back to Upland has the side effect of enlarging Emily's breasts, there's no direct mention of this but she is in a clear state of distress over it and there are gags where she gets stuck in tight spaces and one where she has to squeeze on a breastplate with strenuous effort before it pops off.
* A red light district is present at the Pirate Carnival, with prostitutes and dancers of several gender identities wearing scantily-clad outfits and suggestively gyrating.

### **Violence & Gore**

Moderate

* The beginning of the film shows the Zombi dictator having his hand ripped off; the wound is depicted and purple blood comes out, although it looks more like a mist.
* We see characters bleeding from the head, orifices, and arms, although nothing extreme is shown. Some of the creatures have blood-stains on their teeth, claws, and weapons.
* Zombies and corpses are seen in various stages of decay, some are charred and others have exposed bones, but no bleeding is shown aside from mouths and noses. Some are decapitated with a black neck wound and others have exposed brains, hearts, sinew, flesh, and intestines (only the hearts are red, the rest are discolored).
* A Drow Giant has an empty eye socket with torn-up skin and black flesh in and around it.
* Zombies and other monsters are seen with green blood spraying out of them when they're shot or stabbed. Giant spiders and insects are shown with bloody woundsn and blood pooling out of their bodies after death but it's usually obscured by green acid that also bleeds out of them.
* Some of the enemy soldiers are killed in explosions (no gore is depicted, but the explosions themselves are seen and screaming is heard).
* A Zombi is crushed by an avalanche that a villain specifically causes, they slowly die after this; although the scene isn't very violent, it's pretty disturbing.
* Some of the villainous creatures are stabbed by harpoons, crushed to death, shot, exploded, slashed, and set on fire. One character (Gaslight) douses rival creatures in gasoline and burns them alive.
* One sequence depicts multiple animals getting killed in quick succession. Most of this is offscreen or they bleed green but a cat is bisected just out of frame and red blood drips on a girl sitting below it (it's implied that this is her pet at first but it's later revealed that this was a different one).
* Riff gets shot in the gut by Eyeangle a few times and blood seeps through his shirt; Riff is killed by a shot to the head but all that is seen is a spot of blood on his visible Earth form as blood pours from his mouth and nose.
* Drunkard abused and killed his son in a drunken rage; we see blood pooling under the door of the room they're in and blood on his mouth and claws.
* A character gets impaled through the brain by a pencil; we see an X-Ray of this.
* Emily is horribly beaten and has her clothes ripped off in front of her parents, it is heavily implied that Eyeangle would’ve made her dad rape her but he is stopped.
* There is a comical scene where the Upland Warriors get killed, including accidentally slaughtering each other, there is some mild and discolored blood but it is played for humor and none of them are human.

### **Profanity**

Mild

* Some swearing but not much that's PG-13 level. Hell, damn, ass and bastard are used. Bitch and douchebag are also said and there’s one use each of “prick” and “tits.”
* The villain, Eyeangle, verbally abuses his assistant, Wolfgang, throughout the film.
* Eyeangle states that he named the Zombi Ogres after 9/11 and the overseer in the intro says racist things about black people, not swearing but disgusting language.

### **Drinking/Drugs/Smoking**

Mild

* One character, Drunkard, constantly drinks a magical beverage that makes him beast-like. The beverage is explicitly a magic-infused beer, with his ”beast form” being a metaphor for drunken behavior, and Drunkard is addicted to it. It is implied that Drunkard killed his son because of his addiction but it's later revealed that the drink was cursed by Matangle so that he'd do this.
* Beer, wine, and other alcoholic beverages are mentioned, depicted, and consumed (including by characters under 21), with accordingly drunken behavior.
* Characters are seen smoking pipes and cigars.
* A character shows the stereotypical signs of drug use and its implied that he has consumed drugs, but this is not shown onscreen.

### **Frightening/Intense Scenes**

Moderate

* Some of the creatures appear frightening and disturbing, with glowing eyes, teeth, and claws. The zombies and Drow Giants are especially creepy.
* Battle scenes can get intense and many of the Upland Warriors die by the end of the film.
* Codex’s death/murder is rather sad.
* The film tackles death, war, discrimination, hate, gambling, mental and physical disabilities, child abuse, corruption, addiction, family dysfunction, and verbal abuse.
* It is mentioned that Dillon Emeril is a failed abortion a few times, although this isn't as prevalent of a theme as it was in the first movie.
* A haunted house is visited and some disturbing things are seen/heard, mostly a family acting very strangely and massacring animals; it is later revealed that they are possessed by a race of evil wooden puppets with creepy faces, some of which are in a ghostly form and can't be defeated.
* Riff gets shot many times by Eyeangle and inevitably killed; while his death is intentionally cruel, some viewers might find it satisfying given what the he did in the past, but this is an extremely tearjerking scene nonetheless.
* Drunkard's backstory is very disturbing and unsettling, he is seen splattered with blood after killing his son and goes crazy as a result of this. The killing of his child and Drunkard's behavior, especially compared to how he was portrayed before this point, is likely to scare children.
* It is confirmed that Emily slaughtered an infant when she was a toddler, not shown but a disturbing description is given.
* Emily is beaten until she is deeply bruised and stripped to her lingerie in front of her family, Eyeangle nearly makes her father strip her nude. Most disturbing part in this.
* There are scenes throughout the movie that are extremely unsettling and scary for young or sensitive viewers.
* The intro has brief depictions of racist slavery, there's no onscreen violence aside from a whipping that leaves blood on a slave's back but it's disturbing.
* Many scenes of intense peril are present, including Dillon getting trapped under a burning metal structure and having to slowly guess how to climb his way out, airships/planes and tanks crashing, precariously hanging off of a collapsing precipice and having to climb up it, and being trapped in a helicopter sinking underwater.

Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, intense peril, and action, crude and sexual material throughout, and mature thematic content.

Suggested ESRB Rating: T for Blood, Comic Mischief, Drug Reference, Sexual Content, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence

### Certification

* Argentina: 13+
* Australia: M
* Austria: 12
* France: -12
* Germany: 12
* Greece: 16
* Hungary: 16
* Indonesia: 17+
* Italy: VM14
* Japan: PG12
* Malaysia: N18
* Maldives: 15
* Norway: 12
* Poland: 15
* Philippines: R16
* Switzerland: 16
* United Kingdom: 12
* United States: PG-13
* United States: TV-14 (TV rating)

### Ratings info

UPLAND: OGRES is an animated action/adventure about young commanders in a fantasy world who uses his alliance with special giants to track down a villain who, after enacting devastating murders and warfare in the last movie, now plans to rule their realm with an all-powerful gauntlet.

**Threat (4/5)**
There is sustained threat throughout most of the film, and which includes prolonged scenes in which scared and stranded characters fear for their lives at great heights. There are some intense and prolonged sequences in which giant zombies use heat beams to cause destruction, panic, death and injury, leaving people trapped in the aftermath. There are also associated scenes of emotional upset, notably in scenes in which corpses are shown. Two people are stranded in a chamber full of exploding bodies which set their surroundings on fire and must escape a net that they have been trapped inside. There are frequent, loud jump-scares.
**Violence (3/5)**
There are frequent prolonged battle sequences between many fantasy entities and between human characters and the main antagonist, with use of guns, knives, and other weapons. Bloody detail is minimal but there is pervasive destruction and mayhem wrought. Characters use machine gun to kill attacking zombies, elves, and other creatures, the impact causing blood spurts to erupt briefly. Creatures are also impaled, badly burned, and dismembered. Stronger moments include a person being impaled, a man shot in the stomach and head with brief sight of blood, magic exploding a man's head from within a helmet, and the implication someone is decapitated. Fantastical monsters are attacked using magic, resulting in brief gory injuries. There is a scene of dogfighting where it is implied a dog bites another's head off.

**Sexual violence and sexual threat (3/5)**

There are moderate references to a young man having drugged and raped women. A villain removes a woman's clothes and crudely comments on her, but there is intervention before he can go any further. Other scenes involve testimony from and moderate references to a sexual assault hearing. A film within the film depicts a woman being chased and harassed by a large gang of men.
**Sex (3/5)**

There is a comic scene of implied cunnilingus. Another implied sex scene involves two invisible characters, only identifiable by their eyeglasses, thrusting; there is no explicit mention of sex. A woman jokingly 'refreshes' her vagina with a candle before engaging in sex. In one scene, a woman holds a vibrator while talking to her friends; however, there is no accompanying sexual activity. There is a comic scene in which a man believes he is about to get circumcised. There are also moderate comic verbal and visual sex references, including to erections, prostitution, sex, masturbation, and genitals. There are physical gags involving a young woman's breasts.

**Discrimination (3/5)**

There is a brief scene depicting black slaves and abuse towards them. They are dehumanized and treated as inferior, but no racial slurs are used and racism is clearly condemned. There is a discriminatory bullying sequence featuring moderate threat and emotional upset. In another scene a boy with a limb difference is seen trapped in a cage at a carnival 'freakshow' while an announcer shouts about the “gimpy hideousness” of the “crippled mermaid boy”. There are occasional brief scenes of transphobic behavior and a transgender girl has her hair forcibly cut short by her mother. The film carries a clear anti-discrimination message.

**Suicide (2/5)**

There are infrequent, non-graphic references to suicide and suicide attempts.

**Language (3/5)**

There is implied strong language ('fracking') as well as moderate terms ('prick', 'bitch') and milder ones such as 'shit,' 'tits', 'ass', 'bastard', 'damn', 'hell', 'piss', 'douche,' and 'God.'

**Injury detail (3/5)**

A large wound is seen on a young man's forehead, and there is occasional sight of blood and cuts to faces. There are scenes of fantastical bloodshed, including spurts of black blood in fights against zombies and giants. Fantastical monsters are sloppily dismembered. Decapitated zombie heads are shown. A Pitbull is depicted missing an eye after a dogfight. Occasional sight of zombies in some states of decay. Blood briefly pools under a door after an implied murder.

**Theme (2/5)**

The film has scenes dealing with grief, bereavement, and remorse for murder, which are the main motivation for many characters.

**Rude humor (2/5)**

There are jokes about wetting and soiling pants, farting, spitting, and vomiting, as well as the removal of an object inserted in an animal's anus (no nudity is shown). A character is named Dong Wrestler.

## Raising Children Network

* Upland: Ogres Age: 14+
* Age suitability: Not recommended for children under 12, Parental guidance for children under 14, Suitable for children over 14
* Watch out for: Use of violence, Disturbing scenes
* Themes: Racism; resurrecting the dead; manslaughter of children and where it stems from; dogfighting and gambling; self-sacrifice and self-hatred; date rape drugging.
* Violence: Contains graphic, bloody, and intense action violence; self-sacrifice resulting in the deaths of major characters including a teen, and the mutilation and killing of fantasy animals. Examples include:
	+ A number of pit battles between magic avatars where they battle until one is decapitated while people wager which fighter will kill the other. In one scene Dillon uses a magic dog to tear the legs and face off of a much larger dog, following the battle countless pirates chase him while threatening him with guns but the pilot saves him.
	+ A threatening zombie ogre pursues major characters it towers over, who fall off of a cliff but flee with only bruises.
	+ In a later scene, Dillon and others are pursued by the fearsome ogre who shoots a wrist-mounted machine gun at them, they flee on another giant zombie with the ominous monster chasing them very quickly. After a deadly pursuit where Dillon uses a laser rifle on the zombie's wrist to explode many attacking helicopters, the evil ogre shoots a mountain and causes an avalanche that buries the zombie and kills its soul but only slightly injuring anyone else.
	+ A goblin tackles his son to the ground before clawing and biting him offscreen in a drunken rage, blood pools under the door of the chamber they're in and it is said he was killed.
	+ Several extended combat and war scenes between thousands of threatening monsters and a heroic force of humans and fantasy species with guns and blades used.
	+ An invisible teenager punches a teen Nazi repeatedly before getting shot in the head; in the "Earth realm" where he is visible, blood comes out of his corpse's forehead and mouth.

### Content that May Disturb Children

#### Children Under 5

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, Upland: Ogres has some scenes that could scare or disturb children under the age of five. For example:

* There are many scenes depicting scary-looking monsters and an evil teenage man with long black capes and terrifying-looking faces. The main villain constantly rides on a tsunami made of tens of thousands of black bugs which has a very threatening and scary appearance, transforming and moving at the speed of light.
* Wooden mannequins with blank eyes unexpectedly jump out at the screen and shriek, constantly twisting their heads and limbs around like breaking bones with crunchy sounds.
* The heroes are monsters with menacing weapons and guns that might terrify young children.

#### From 5-8

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

* On a plantation, an overseer berates and whips his slaves and a sells a child to an implicit pedophile before he is stopped by the heroes and all of them are freed.
* A child walks into oncoming traffic with cars loudly swerving around him and honking. Dillon runs after the boy, dodging traffic before he is hit and collapses to the street with a broken leg, unconscious. The child is upset upon seeing this and is very nearly hit many times but crosses safely.
* We hear that Emily suffocated a baby when she was 4 and upon rediscovering the memory she is in an extremely depressed state in many scenes and harms herself.
* After a boiler room explodes, Dillon is trapped under machinery as the room slowly burns and he slowly drags himself out by blindly grabbing and pulling at pipes. Dillon's hair eventually catches on fire and he begins to panic but escapes from the burning area and puts it out before he is injured, only for the ship to explode as he grabs onto a crate. Falling through the sky, Dillon is barely able to grab the hand of his comrade on another ship and his fingers begin to slip before he is lifted on.
* A young girl runs into a burning ship cabin to try to save people but it explodes (we see the giant flaming explosion in slow-motion), the force throwing Tanner off of the ship before he is saved by one of his monstrous soldiers. A short time later we see an entire army standing around a gravestone at a funeral for the girl and the soul of a giant that protected them before. There are a couple of scenes depicting the girl's family in an extreme state of anxiety and depression after her death.
* In an extremely emotionally intense scene, many fantastical monsters and a teenage boy sacrifice their lives while trying to stop Eyeangle and to defend Dillon, Emily, and Tanner.

#### From 8-13

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

* We hear that Dillon was a failed abortion and thought his mother wished he was dead for almost his whole life.

#### Over 13

Younger children in this age group may also be disturbed by some of the above-mentioned scenes.

### Sexual references

There are some sexual references in Upland: Ogres, including:

* A mother talks about puberty with her teenage daughter, making reference to menstruation, pubic hair, and the development of her breasts.

### Alcohol, drugs and other substances

There is some use of substances in this movie, including:

* A pirate acts in a comical, high manner - speaking slowly in vernacular, seeing things that aren't there, and eating copiously.
* Teenagers at a party hold and drink beer and cider from Solo cups.

### Nudity & sexual activity

There is some sexual activity in Upland: Ogres, including:

* Dillon walks in on an invisible couple (represented by pairs of glasses) who appear in a sodomizing position and all three of them scream.

### Product placement

There is some product placement in Upland: Ogres, including:

* An Android phone is used by Dillon many times early in the film.

### Ideas to discuss with your children

*Upland: Ogres* is an animated action adventure dark fantasy film targeted at older teens and adults. Positive messages relate to friends supporting and forgiving each other as well as the importance of honesty and the drive to atone for your mistakes, no matter how impossible to forgive they seem. However, the film does contain some graphic and intense animated action violence and blood, very scary images and themes that are likely to disturb children under twelve. It is therefore not recommended for this age group and parental guidance is recommended for the 12-14 age group.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

* Selflessness/self-sacrifice: a few of the film’s major characters display selflessness and self-sacrifice for both allies and strangers, with an obvious distinction between self-sacrifice and self-hatred.
* Forgiveness: the film portrays forgiveness as having a very vital role in supporting someone and as a means to heal psychological injuries.

Parents may wish to discuss Dillon's seeking of revenge for the killing of his allies and the consequences of this type of action, along with Riff's history of rape and whether he can be forgiven after he sacrifies himself.

## Deaths

* Drunkard's Son: Clawed and bitten to death, bled out.
* Flamethrower: Impaled through the chest by a spear.
* Treant: Decapitated and dismembered before getting burned by a flamethrower.
* Dragon Borne: Stabbed by a harpoon in an unseen area.
* Doctor Devilry: Slashed by a bladed cross and killed.
* Drill Instructor: Doused by water and charges into a wall, exploding into pieces.
* Dragon Drone: Optics are broken, which causes him to crash into the ground and blow up.
* Tornado Turtle: Sucks in a grenade while using his vortex, explodes.
* Falchion Fire: Has his fire put out by urine streams, armor breaks apart before having his arms and head cut off.
* Shell Shock: Shell is broken before getting decapitated, pink blood gushing out and painting the walls.
* Thunderstruck: Has his cloud legs sucked off by a vortex before getting shackled to an explosive and blown up.
* Easter Eggs: Burned to death and decapitated, before having her legs ripped off and eaten like drumsticks.
* Hydra Flash: Has his eyes stabbed before getting beheaded, leaving a gory wound that sparks with electricity.
* Root Wrecker: Mutilated to death before getting burned by a laser.
* Terra-Misu: Smashed to pieces and has his crystal parts shattered.
* Gaslight: Doused with heavy water before getting his head smashed.
* Masterdroid: Short-circuited before getting ripped open and having his inner-workings torn out.
* Riff Pogson: Shot three times in the abdomen and once in the head.
* Zombi: All of them died twice, both times from the severing of the Cadaverous Fist of Zombaite.
* Buggs: Sprayed by pesticide and crushed into oozy pieces.
* Sixth Sense: Has his eye inflated and popped, body loses his will to live.
* Blubber: Gets his ribs torn open and decapitated.

## Tropes

* Amusement Park of Doom: Bowers' Pirate Amusement Park.
* Big Damn Heroes: The final battle; Eyeangle - by now a titanic Zombi - corners the Ogres by obliterating the teleporter, their only way to flee. All of a sudden, Romo the Homo comes to the rescue - with the sudden reappearance of Riff Pogson, controlling Romo's Zombi that was smashed to death with Codex early in the movie.
* Bullet Hell: Continuing the first films tradition with magic battles, Ravenous Beast mixes it up with *Ikaruga*-like Bullet Hell, using a mix of deadly crimson bullets and healing blue rounds, while Emily uses a gadget to invert which shots are which.
* Dies Wide Open: Riff Pogson's Earth form, which is made even creepier by the fact that his eyes had been shut for the entirety of his stasis.