Blessed are you if you don’t know Foodfight!. In 2012, at the dawn of Pixar and DreamWorks cinema, an unknown production company believed they could also make a 3D movie. And for its cast, they hired – get this – Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hilary Duff, Eva Longoria, Larry Miller, and Christopher Lloyd. Its production began in 2000, ended up being released in 2012, and was one of those horrors that will go down in cinema history.
Foodfight: now playable
Until you see it, you won’t know how bad it is, on the level of the Brazilian rip-offs of Cars. But, at the time, it was destined to be a hit. So much so, that for a while it was planned that a video game would appear in stores at the same time as its release in theaters. But Foodfight!, in the end, went straight to DVD and never made it to the big screen, so, as you can guess, the video game had been canceled long before. We know that it was going to appear for PS2, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Wii, and Nintendo DS back in 2006 and its development lasted until 2008, when, finally, it was canceled without a trace.
Now, the former boss of Cat Daddy Games, the publisher that was going to release it, has uploaded all the available material to the Internet Archive, and that’s how we discovered that it was going to have 26 screens between platforms and flight screens. It was so ambitious that they were even going to have the original actors voice their characters again (Hilary Duff even recorded her part!), but reality ended up hitting them hard. The movie sank in the sea of Internet memes and no one wanted to play a game based on that flop. I wish there was an alternate universe, though, where we could have known it. Oh well.
