Bill Plympton's The Tune
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Movie Reviews of Bill Plympton's The Tune
Movie Review: Plympton for ALL Ages
Summary: 4 Stars
Bill Plympton's hand-drawn colored pencil cartoons are a joy to look at, and very funny with their multitudes of visual puns. But unfortunately most of his films are really for more mature audiences than can be shown in a classroom setting. This is the one DVD of Plympton's that is entirely appropriate for young audiences. Kids like the silly songs and weird roaming story. It is also an excellent example of economizing animation production with cycles and "moving holds." I wish they would package it with his short film "Your Face" which is also great for kids as an example of how animation can be used to change something normal --a face-- into a million variations of funny and strange.Movie Review: Avoid this movie, save your money and time.
Summary: 1 Stars
I couldn't get through 15 minutes of this movie. The animation is amateurish and dated. The writing is as if he wrote a scene, animated as quickly as he could and then wrote another scene. It feels like a stream of consciousness, unedited, and in its first draft. Talentless crap. Within the first 13 minutes the plot is established. You realize that this is self-indulgent crap, because it is about a singer-song writer searching for a tune, so that he can keep his job, and keep his girl. This is explained by the main character. "I need to write a song to that I can keep my job and my girl friend." There are a few interesting animations that might make an interesting graphic for an album, but nothing in this random assault of imagery justifies a movie.
If you made it through that poorly written review, imagine a movie of lower caliber, less wit, and sketchier organization, and that is the movie "The Tune" is.
Avoid it.