Dante's Inferno (2007)

Director:

Sean Meredith

Writers:

Dante Alighieri (novel)
Sandow Birk (writer)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The epic film of a lost young man's journey through hell.

Plot:

A darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld - set against an all-too-familiar urban backdrop of used car lots, gated communities, strip malls, and the U.S. Capitol. And populated with a contemporary cast of reprobates, including famous - and infamous - politicians, presidents, popes, pimps. And the Prince of Darkness himself.

Plot Keywords:

Pope | Inferno | Toy Theater | Dante's Inferno | Anger

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Dermot Mulroney	...	Dante (voice)
James Cromwell	...	Virgil
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Scott Adsit	...	Judge Minos (voice)
Matt Besser	...	Curtis Le May (voice)
Bill Chott	...	Ciaccio (voice)
Mike Coleman	...	Charon (voice)
Andrew Daly	...	Jim Jones (voice)
John Fleck	...	Brunetto Latini
Tony Hale	...	Pope Nicholas 3rd (voice)
Tom Hallick	...	George Sanders
Brandon Johnson	...	Pimp (voice)
Laura Krafft	...	George Sand (voice)
Martha Plimpton	...	Celia
Kit Pongetti	...	Francesca (voice)
Mark Ritts	...	Gianciotto
Tami Sagher	...	Penelope (voice)
Dana Snyder	...	Ulysses - Strom Thurmond
Janet Varney	...	Intercom (voice)
Matt Walsh	...	Fox Reporter (voice)
Paul Zaloom	...	Lucifer (voice)

Runtime:

88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Filming Locations:

Santa Monica, California, USA

Company:

Dante Film LLC

Trivia:

Head Puppeteer/Writer/Producer Paul Zaloom is Beakman, the wild master of science on TV's "Beakman's World."

Quotes:

Virgil: This is Hell, Dante. Not your personal fantasy.

A wonderfully fun, unique spin on a literary masterpiece

If you haven't read Dante's INFERNO (part 1 of THE DIVINE COMEDY), you should. And once you have, you should check on this delightfully innovative spin on that classic tale.

This isn't the INFERNO as Dante wrote it. Dante has been completely modernized; Hell resembles Los Angeles, the punishments aren't quite what you remember, and the people populating Hell are now familiar faces (Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, Condoleeza Rice). There's also a good dose of Monty Python and Mike Judge in the black humor that drenches every scene.

And while the take has its own novelty, what really elevates the film from good to great is the consistently enjoyable animation. The use of hand-operated paper cut-out puppets is wonderful. The care that has gone into crafting the sets and characters themselves is quite impressive indeed.

Highly recommended.