Plymptoons - The Classic Works of Bill Plympton (Special Edition)
by Bill Plympton
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Director: Bill PlymptonDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-07-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Indie DVD
Movie Reviews of Plymptoons - The Classic Works of Bill Plympton (Special Edition)
Movie Review: You either love em or hate em
Summary: 4 Stars
You either love these cartoons or you hate them, but I use them when doing lectures or presentations. As examples or parodies, they work well.
Summary of Plymptoons - The Classic Works of Bill Plympton (Special Edition)
Chances are, you've seen Bill Plympton's animation everywhere. Plympton's unique "morphing style" animated short films have been nominated for an Academy Award?, seen in innovative commercials and have been featured on MTV and in "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation." This special edition DVD release also includes the original cartoons published in Rolling Stone, Playboy and National Lampoon that inspired the later films. Among the Animated Shorts included on the disc are: "Your Face", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking" and "Self Portrait".Independent animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outr? "Your Face" (1987) was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. His short films--some as brief as 15 seconds--made between 1985 and 1991 showcase his unique talent much more effectively than his ponderous features, The Tune and I Married a Strange Person. Plympton's earliest films indicate that he experimented with a variety of techniques--cutouts, cel animation, stop motion--before finding his personal style: colored pencil drawings on paper to illustrate bizarre, metamorphic transitions that build to an absurd climax. Eyes slide up foreheads, lips elongate, mouths rotate, bodies distort, and heads explode in loose, scribbly sketches. Plympton is not a great animator: he uses only four to six drawings per second, less than a Saturday-morning series (full, Disney-style animation requires 12 to 24 drawings per second), and his attempts to tell a coherent story through his drawings invariably fizzle. But in off-the-wall shorts like "Your Face," "25 Ways to Quit Smoking," and the 15-second "Plymptoons" made for MTV, he emerges as an entertaining and highly original filmmaker. Not rated; suitable for all ages, although bizarre imagery may frighten small children. --Charles Solomon
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