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unbibiumQuick review of Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted:
First, they got rid of Sloach's. YAY!
Also, a 1930's Betty Boop cartoon, a Tenacious D video with titties, Rejected, the other film by the maker of Rejected, plenty of No Neck Joe, VH-1 documentary parodies, Chris Rock having bad phone sex.
You think a 1930's Betty Boop cartoon couldn't qualify for Sick and Twisted? Well, it does. It's the Betty Boop version of the Snow White story, and the ending is almost Itchy-and-Scratchy scale in graphicity, though you only see what might be internal organs for a brief moment. The strange jazz number in the middle was a whole work unto itself; I in fact have no idea how it, or the singing character in it, relates to the rest of the story, but it's awesome. And the fast pace of the cartoon was a delightful contrast to all the films at the festival which had more credits than content, or consisted of long sequences where the characters just stand around looking gross. Something was always happening in Snow White, and at times it was difficult to follow the story, but it was always pleasing to look at, and possessed the kind of animation skill you just don't see anymore..
There were plenty of hits, but a few misses too. At least two cartoons used the "pussy as cat" pun. Others were just gross. And another one, "Harry Pothead and the Magic Herb", was just a string of infantile marijuana references, kids getting high, and no other humor or other artistic content. There was one cartoon, I think it was called "Bezporno", with credits in some Eastern European language, and featured this big fat walking wedgie getting out of bed and looking excited and hearing things and rushing to the door and generally looking gross. And there were plenty of other cartoons which were two to ffive minutes long and consisted of only one joke which wasn't funny, but happens in a disgusting setting. And they had the projector zoomed wrong, which detracted a little from some of the good ones.
In "Ah, L'Amour", the other Bitter Films production, the dialogue was written and not spoken, so the male and female halves of the audience read off the dialogue. The men were louder than the women.
There was a new-to-me Plympton film called "Eat", with Plympton's trademark visual puns and progressions from mundane, literal scenes to exaggerated, detailed action. I recognized a film called "Hello, Dad" as something I saw on Liquid Television back in the 90's; the date on the credits was 1987. The title card for the Tenacious D video got applause, establishing the crowd's hipness, and I don't know which was better: the video, or the song?
And, thankfully, there was no giant ball being passed around. But that's another post.
A successful festival, and I encourage all other Arizona livejournalers to make a last-minute run for tonight's 11:00 showing, which is the last showing this year.
First, they got rid of Sloach's. YAY!
Also, a 1930's Betty Boop cartoon, a Tenacious D video with titties, Rejected, the other film by the maker of Rejected, plenty of No Neck Joe, VH-1 documentary parodies, Chris Rock having bad phone sex.
You think a 1930's Betty Boop cartoon couldn't qualify for Sick and Twisted? Well, it does. It's the Betty Boop version of the Snow White story, and the ending is almost Itchy-and-Scratchy scale in graphicity, though you only see what might be internal organs for a brief moment. The strange jazz number in the middle was a whole work unto itself; I in fact have no idea how it, or the singing character in it, relates to the rest of the story, but it's awesome. And the fast pace of the cartoon was a delightful contrast to all the films at the festival which had more credits than content, or consisted of long sequences where the characters just stand around looking gross. Something was always happening in Snow White, and at times it was difficult to follow the story, but it was always pleasing to look at, and possessed the kind of animation skill you just don't see anymore..
There were plenty of hits, but a few misses too. At least two cartoons used the "pussy as cat" pun. Others were just gross. And another one, "Harry Pothead and the Magic Herb", was just a string of infantile marijuana references, kids getting high, and no other humor or other artistic content. There was one cartoon, I think it was called "Bezporno", with credits in some Eastern European language, and featured this big fat walking wedgie getting out of bed and looking excited and hearing things and rushing to the door and generally looking gross. And there were plenty of other cartoons which were two to ffive minutes long and consisted of only one joke which wasn't funny, but happens in a disgusting setting. And they had the projector zoomed wrong, which detracted a little from some of the good ones.
In "Ah, L'Amour", the other Bitter Films production, the dialogue was written and not spoken, so the male and female halves of the audience read off the dialogue. The men were louder than the women.
There was a new-to-me Plympton film called "Eat", with Plympton's trademark visual puns and progressions from mundane, literal scenes to exaggerated, detailed action. I recognized a film called "Hello, Dad" as something I saw on Liquid Television back in the 90's; the date on the credits was 1987. The title card for the Tenacious D video got applause, establishing the crowd's hipness, and I don't know which was better: the video, or the song?
And, thankfully, there was no giant ball being passed around. But that's another post.
A successful festival, and I encourage all other Arizona livejournalers to make a last-minute run for tonight's 11:00 showing, which is the last showing this year.
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Date: 2002-03-02 01:58 pm (UTC)Boop
Date: 2002-03-02 06:41 pm (UTC)In the early '30s the Fleischer's studio did a series of cartoons featuring pop & jazz artists of the day, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Rudy Valleee. Some interesting stuff.
For a future bizarre "Sick & Twisted" I highly reccomend they seek out a Fleischer cartoon from c. 1930 "Bimbo's Initiation".