Igor (2008)

  This could have been a great kids film if it had just managed to decide what kind of tone it wanted to have.  It could have either leaned towards spooky or goofy but tried to split the difference, ending up as neither.

All Igors in the cloud-covered land of Malaria are relegated to the role of henchman to evil scientists, but one Igor (John Cusack) wants to present his own inventions.  When his evil scientist Dr. Glickenstein (John Cleese) blows himself up a week before the Evil Science Fair, Igor seizes his chance to step out of the shadow by creating Eva (Molly Shannon), a creature designed to be an unstoppable killing machine.  Only Eva's brainwash doesn't go correctly and instead of being a force for evil, she thinks she's auditioning for the lead role in Annie.  Igor is happy to let her labor under the delusion because he is a little busy trying to keep rival evil scientist Dr. Shadenfreude (Eddie Izzard) from stealing Eva and presenting her as his own invention.

Having a secondary character (an Igor) step out to show he's more than the role assigned to him and creating a Frankenstein-ian monster that turns out to be sweet instead of scary?  Total children's movie.  Having a side character constantly attempting suicide because it hates being immortal?  Not so much.

Obviously there are a ton of spooky/Halloween-y themed movies appropriate for children.  This is not one of them.  It reads like someone took a Paranorman type idea and a committee of executives said "But will three-year-olds like it?" until the writers just gave up.  According to IMDb, Chris McKenna of Spider-Man:  Homecoming, Far from Home, and The Lego Batman Movie is the sole credited writer but with three other people (Tony Leondis, John Hoffman, and Dimitri Toscas) providing additional screenplay material.  To me, that looks like McKenna submitted a script that was bought by a studio who then brought in their own people to essentially rewrite it, but I'm just guessing.

It's streaming on Netflix but resist the temptation.  There are better titles out there.