{"id":1728,"date":"2009-01-23T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2009-01-23T00:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T04:00:50","slug":"the-animation-show-4-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1728","title":{"rendered":"The Animation Show 4 (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, remember the ambition of vol. 2<\/a>? Those days are gone. I guess half of these were good, which is fine for a shorts program, but the bad ones were worse than ever.<\/p>\n

A good one: oscar-nominated This Way Up:<\/em>
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Not worth going into: Corky Quakenbush’s claymation Yompi The Crotch-Biting Sloup<\/em> and Dave Carter’s construction-paper Psychotown<\/em> – each of which annoyed me the first time, then came back to annoy me two more times.<\/p>\n

Voodoo:<\/em>
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Lame in the “let’s record a dull conversation then animate it” approach were Operator<\/em> (man calls information and gets God’s number), John and Karen<\/em> (relationship trouble between a penguin and polar bear) and Angry Unpaid Hooker<\/em> (this and Psychotown<\/em> are stupid enough to make me worry about The Animation Show’s future). Professor Nieto Show<\/em> (class watches brazilian insects that play soccer) and Jeu<\/em> (things spin and morph into each other kaleidoscopically, like a Gondry video but more pixellated) were pretty alright.<\/p>\n

Blind Spot:<\/em>
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Bill Plympton’s Hot Dog<\/em> is fine, but I’m ready for something new from him. Cocotte Minute<\/em> (chickens race in a dangerous kitchen) and Blind Spot<\/em> (old woman is blamed for deadly robbery because of poor security-camera placement) were inventive little violent-death shorts, and I liked Usavich<\/em> (two rabbits take a totally mad car ride) much more than I should. Forgetfulness<\/em> is an illustrated Billy Collins poem. I already can’t remember Burning Safari<\/em>, something to do with monkeys and robots.<\/p>\n

Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker:<\/em>
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My faves were Mr. Schwartz, Mr. Hazen & Mr. Horlocker<\/em> (cop arrives at an apartment for a noise complaint and gets confusing reactions from the residents), This Way Up<\/em> (two undertakers have a hell of a time making their delivery – I liked the rube goldberg bit near the beginning better than the climactic trip through hell), Key Lime Pie<\/em> (hardboiled tough guy with a weak heart is over the moon about pie) and of course PES’s Western Spaghetti<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Key Lime Pie:<\/em>
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Wow, remember the ambition of vol. 2? Those days are gone. I guess half of these were good, which is fine for a shorts program, but the bad ones were worse than ever. A good one: oscar-nominated This Way Up: Not worth going into: Corky Quakenbush’s claymation Yompi The Crotch-Biting Sloup and Dave Carter’s construction-paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,21],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}