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[[File:delgo.jpg|frame|Even a little [[Interspecies Romance]] couldn't draw in the crowds.]]

{{quote|''"I... purchased a ticket to ''Delgo'', in the process doubling its gross for the week... [It] sends out the heartwarming message that if you overcome all manner of obstacles en route to realizing your biggest, most ambitious aspiration then you too can become a laughingstock to the entire world."''

{{quote|''"I... purchased a ticket to '''Delgo''', in the process doubling its gross for the week... [It] sends out the heartwarming message that if you overcome all manner of obstacles en route to realizing your biggest, most ambitious aspiration then you too can become a laughingstock to the entire world."''

|'''[[Nathan Rabin]]''', [http://www.avclub.com/articles/floppiest-flop-case-file-126-delgo,16751/ My Year of Flops]}}

A 2008 animated fantasy film, ''Delgo'' is the brainchild of Marc Adler, a technology wunderkind who managed to build his own Atlanta studio and scrape together a $40 million budget from well outside the Hollywood system. The film holds the dubious honor of the [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/worstopenings.htm?page=WRSTOPN20&p=.htm worst wide-release opening in ~~movie~~ ~~history~~]: it was released in more than 2000 theaters and earned less than a million dollars in its first and only week.

A 2008 animated fantasy film, '''''Delgo''''' is the brainchild of Marc Adler, a technology wunderkind who managed to build his own Atlanta studio and scrape together a $40 million budget from well outside the Hollywood system. The film holds the dubious honor of the [http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/worstopenings.htm?page=WRSTOPN20&p=.htm worst wide-release opening] (which it held until the 2012 release of ''[[The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure]]''): it was released in more than 2000 theaters and earned less than a million dollars in its first and only week.

The story is set in the land of Jhamora, where a group of lizard-people called the Lockni allow a group of displaced dragonfly-people called the Nohrin to settle on their lands. The Lockni immediately regret this decision when a power-hungry Nohrin named Sedessa (Anne Bancroft in her last performance) tries to enslave them. Sedessa is exiled but returns fifteen years later, bent on conquest and with an army of ogres backing her up. It's up to Delgo, the telekinetic son of one of Sedessa's victims, and a cast of colorful side characters to stop her.

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As an epic love-in-a-time-of-war story set on another world and driven by an auteur's singular, risky vision, it's sort of like a Bizarro-world ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''. The filmmakers certainly thought so, and [http://www.cinematical.com/2009/08/27/delgo-creators-mull-avatar-lawsuit/ actually considered suing Fox and Cameron] after seeing ''Avatar's'' first trailer. Not much seems to have come from that.

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* [[All There in the Manual]]: The film's website gives names for the various creatures in the background. It's also the only place where the Ando (Sedessa's army) are referred to by name.

* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Sedessa's weird bald gryphon-thing. Completely apropos of nothing, right in the middle of dramatically gloating before the defeated king, is a "comedy" scene where it urinates on the king in explicitly doglike fashion.

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