Neurotica: Middle-Age Spread and Other Life Crises
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Actor: NeuroticaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Neurotica: Middle-Age Spread and Other Life Crises
Movie Review: Good Collection
Summary: 4 Stars
The first short is Bob & Margret which was on Comedy Central for a while. I like this because it is quirky. It's British. The second is even more odd, but grows on you. It's about the 3 personas of an older (like 30's/40's) trying to get a date. The 3rd one is cutsie about a guy living across from a woman and how they finally hookup. The 4th one didn't stick with me. The 5th one is the gem! the classic "Big Snit" as this has been written about so much I shan't go into it other than to say you must have it. The remaining are marginal except for Get a Job. All in all one for the collection.
Summary of Neurotica: Middle-Age Spread and Other Life Crises
Hey, guys--what's so funny about turning 40? Or unrequited love? Or sagging egos and body parts? Or bad plumbing? Find out in "Neurotica," a collection of eleven award-winning shorts from the world-renowned National Film Board of Canada animation studios. "Bob's Birthday," Oscar winner; "No Problem," Cannes nominee; "George and Rosemary," Oscar nominee; "Strings," Oscar nominee; "The Big Snit," Oscar nominee; "Shyness," "Getting Started," "Special Delivery," Oscar winner; "Get a Job," "Why Me?," "Scant Sanity."Most of the 11 short films on this noteworthy disc were made at the National Film Board of Canada during the '70s and '80s, its creative heyday. In the darkly funny "Why Me?," a nebbish-type little man undergoes all seven Kubler-Ross stages of dealing with death--in under five minutes. Alison Snowden and David Fine examine a mid-life crisis--and a hilariously botched surprise party--in "Bob's Birthday," the Academy Award-winning short that spawned the "Bob and Margaret" series. A lonely man literally wrestles with his id and superego in "No Problem," while "George and Rosemary" spoofs love among the ruined. In contrast to the zany humor of the other films, Wendy Tilby's elegiac "Strings" explores how love can arise under unlikely circumstances. This lovely, Oscar-nominated short was executed in the difficult technique of paint-on-glass. Les Drew makes points about communicating with others--and sends up the clich?s of monster movies--in "Shyness," but the film lacks the gleeful nuttiness of his "Every Dog's Guide to Complete Home Safety." John Weldon, the codirector of "Special Delivery," seems more interested in exploring the possibilities of a new computer graphics systems than in presenting a real story in "Scant Sanity." Although several of these films have been released previously, serious students of the art of animation will want Neurotica in their library. Unrated; suitable for ages 12 and older, with minor nudity and cartoon violence. --Charles Solomon
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