'Spermageddon': Sex education like you've never seen it before
A Norwegian film that is an animated musical starring sperm

- Directed by: Tommy Wirkola and Rasmus A. Sivertsen
- Screenplay: Tommy Wirkola, Geir Vegar Hoel and Jesper Sundnes
- 80 minutes. Norway (2024)
- With Christian Mikkelsen, Nasrin Khusrawi and Aksel Hennie
In all my years of criticism, I never would have imagined I'd be reviewing an animated musical comedy starring sperm cells that must make the long journey from a teenager's testicles to his first girlfriend's egg. But, as it happens, the day has arrived. Co-directed by Rasmus A. Sivertsen and Tommy Wirkola, specialized in productions with a clear and powerful concept (such as Nazi zombies or the exterminator Santa Claus Silent Night), Spermageddon It is presented as a parody of Pixar's preferred narrative scheme: giving anthropomorphic characteristics and feelings to inanimate organisms, and turning physical and mental processes into corporate structures. In fact, it can be understood as a replica of Inside Out, which opens the door wide to the youthful libido that Disney eradicates from its imagination. While it is true that Spermageddon rarely manages to make the good-humored and crude gags that parade across the screen live up to its premise, and must juggle to reconcile the fertile feat of its characters with a moral in favor of safe sex and family planning, we must recognize those responsible for a merit as little as possible: they have made a film producers and more de facto powers of the film industry as its protagonists of not ending up crushed in a condom or handkerchief.