Insidious yoink12/18/2023 The first home run of the festival, for me anyway. Specky Four-Eyes: a pair of glasses results in Boy meeting Reality, and of course, they don't get along well. Too dreamy for my tired sitting-in-a-theatre-for-six-hours brain to deal with.Īmazonia: funny examination of the critter-eats-critter world of the jungle. Morris Lessmore: alas, I started to zone out on this one. I'm Bob.", which provoked uproarious laughter from the audience. The animation struck me (as it has in a number of other modern 3D-ish CG animations) for mixing occasional bits of super-realistic effects (running water) with very fake, plastic-y looking effects (the squirrels in particular).īob: The entire dialog consisted of the line "Hi. I have no previous exposure to the story/book, so no arguments over whether it did or did not meet expectations/crush precious childhood memories, etc. The Cow Who Wanted to Be a Hamburger: funny, didn't seem quite as sharp as Plympton's previous efforts, but had a properly Plymptonesque zany ending. The soccer ball lost in the minefield provided plenty of dramatic tension for the kids, while the adults had to deal with guerillas and soldiers. Beautiful, lush mountainscapes only slightly marred by the projector being aimed wrong so the picture fell off the bottom of the screen :-(. Yogurt Cups: could be sponsored by NORML starts off a bit weepy, ends funny.Ĭlichés: ? can't remember based on overly-vague description in the program guide :-(Ī kids-stuck-in-the-middle-of-a-civil-war story. If you really want your heart torn out, watch "Born into Brothels" instead. Sudden Death: Musical! Mayhem! Death! Technicolor-bright costumes! what's not to like? Good stuff.Ĭecilia's Plan: vaguely funny, but why can't somebody make a film about people who refuse to grow up _without_ having their characters live at home with Mom & Dad? 'nuff said.ĭanny and Annie: think the opening sequence from "UP", except 2-D animation over the audio of a real couple talking about their life together. (fortunately, losing in the end-but after the damage had been done).Ĭanary Suicides: Ludicrously funny. Save The Farm: Predictably angering Davids-vs-Goliath story about a developer buying land on the cheap from the gov't, then giving the previous occupants the boot, lying through his teeth, etc. Once again, _internal_ discrimination within a community that is itself discriminated against makes an appearance. Liked the audio cut-overs to the protagonist's PoV (including partly blank subtitles for lip-reading). Just a short set of notes, so that I don't forget myself.
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