The Dish
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The Dish
Starring: Sam Neill , Billy Mitchell (II) , Rosalind Hammond , Christopher-Robin Street , and Luke Keltie
Director: Rob Sitch
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ASIN: B00005MKKS
Release Date: 2001-08-31

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The Dish, a good-natured and effortlessly funny Australian drama-comedy directed by Rob Sitch (The Castle), is filled with warm-hearted characters and has a factual hook that's irresistibly inspiring. This cumulative goodwill springs forth from the rural town of Parkes in New South Wales, where a 1,000-ton radio observatory dish is recruited to relay telemetry, voice, and television signals from the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in July 1969. To make sure the dish delivers Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind" to 600 million eager viewers, site director Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill, at his gentle best) relies on a three-man crew consisting of an American NASA watchdog (Patrick Warburton, resembling a bearish Clark Kent), a sarcastic engineer (Kevin Harrington), and a lovestruck math whiz (Tom Long) who's pining for the sister of the dish's rather dimly overzealous security guard (Taylor Kane).

Numerous other supporting characters add color to the proceedings, and crises arise (albeit briefly) when power outage, signal loss, and windstorms threaten to spoil Parkes's proudest hour. It all rates a bit high on the cuteness meter, but The Dish is so smoothly amusing that you won't object to its eagerness to please. By focusing on the Aussie locals, the film reminds us that the moon landing was an occasion of global unity, and pride in all humanity is reflected in the wondrous smiles of Cliff, his crew, and the citizens of Parkes. That they played such a small but pivotal role in this historical milestone is just one of many joys to be discovered in this delightful little movie. --Jeff Shannon

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5 out of 5 stars Feel silly adding to this uniformly favorable pile of reviews.......2007-07-22

A charming and surprising movie. The cast and script are superb. Sam Neill, as always, is a joy.

Two things:

- The film is an education on the often subtle but important differences between Australian and US cultures (I instantly noticed there are strong similarities to Anglo-Canadian life). This is a nostalgia-drenched trip down Aussie memory lane. Particularly interesting is how Australia of 1969 seems more like the US of around 1950 or even earlier. It's a bit disorienting and if you watch this with younger people you might want to give them a little background. This hardly seems like the same world also inhabited by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and Jimmy Hendrix.

- The film is a good kick in the hinder about what that moon landing meant to all of us and how tragic it is that a generation plus has not seen its equivalent. The Apollo landings marked the end of an age of exploration that had begun 500 years earlier; none of us back then could have anticipated how disinterested and unambitious humanity would have become in only 40 years.

5 out of 5 stars The Dish.......2007-04-10

This is one of those movies I watch over and over again and with my family. I am an amateur astronomer so it interest me to watch how we came to first land on the Moon and perhaps from an inside view of how things were done. All the actors do a great job of telling this story.

5 out of 5 stars Fun and great history, too.......2007-03-25

Saw this in the theater and enjoyed it again just as much on DVD. It's 1969 and the people of Honeysuckle Creek, Australia are very excited because their satellite dish will be used to transmit television images of the first moonwalk to the world. There are lots of wonderful characters, from the lovelorn engineer too shy to ask out the pretty local girl, the redfaced mayor with the space-obsessed son, the NASA by-the-book American who's been sent to oversee the Australians, and the calm bespectacled leader of the Dish's crew. When disaster strikes in the form of a power outage, the town's chance for fame and glory appears about to fade away. Can the intrepid engineers save the day? There's actual footage from the launch and moonwalks which are still riveting almost 40 years later.

4 out of 5 stars "The Dish" leaves us feeling good.......2007-03-05

I orginally discovered "The Dish" when a neighbor brought this unknown movie over to watch with us one evening. I was interested in the subject matter having taught Astronomy at the college level and also spent considerable time in Australia. So, we put it in the DVD player, and an amazing thing happened: We really were taken back to 1969, and our surroundings, and the people we were with, were as real as life.

This movie title provides no evidence just how much you will take away from it. As an American, it gave me a taste of the pride and sense of accomplishment we all felt as Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon. (Before "America Bashing" became popular, mostly among the members of our own media.) As a human being, it brought back that amazing day in July 1969 when we all broke the bonds of gravity and watched one of us walk on another planet (well, moon, actually...) for the first time in history.

The movie brings out all the small events, triumphs, and errors, that combine to make any great achievement possible. It tells the stories of the 'regular' people of Parkes, a small town in New South Wales, who, by doing their jobs, helped bring the images of the first steps on the moon to eyes all over the world.

It examined the most intriguing questions that needed be answered before we took the steps away from our Earthly home; like: "How do they go wizzz up there?" (Evidently remains unknown to this day!) Or, " Without the co-ordinates, how do we find the Moon?" (Answer; Look out the window!) And, "Is this mission really funded by the CIA?" (Answer: Not completely.)

From the NASA project manager who is terrified that he'll screw up his big opportunity, and the engineer who forgot to prime the fuel pump on the back-up generator, to the love struck mathematician who tries to ask the love of his life for a date and the mayor's 'radical' daughter who is convined that everything is a CIA/imperialist plot, the cast brings the characters to life and leaves the viewer with a real feeling of having been there sharing it all with them.

The sound track makes us feel like it really is 1969. The choice of music is perfect. You will really laugh, and there may be a few tears of pride and happiness as you watch the very believable cast bring 1969 small town Australia to life. One of the best movies I have ever seen. You'll watch it over and over.

4 out of 5 stars A sweet-natured movie, well acted and amusing.......2007-01-14

Terms such as "charming," "sweet-natured," "gentle" and "good-spirited" may mean the kiss of death for some movies. It's also possible that the movie in question just might be worth watching because it is well-made, deals with a genuinely inspiring topic and features some classy actors. For me, The Dish falls in that category. The dish is a 1,000-ton radio telescope plunked down in a sheep pasture close to the New South Wales town of Parkes. It's purpose, as part of a NASA network, is to help track Apollo 11's voyage to the moon and to relay television pictures of Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to set foot there. Sam Neill as Cliff Buxton heads the team running the radio telescope. There's also Al Burnett (Patrick Warburton) as a NASA representative, Glenn Latham (Tom Lang) as a young and excruciatingly shy mathematician and computer whiz, and Mitch Mitchell (Kevin Harrington), who's job it is to see that all the mechanical functions work without a hitch.

We know Armstrong made it and we know television showed us his first steps. For those of us who were around, we also remember how amazing it all was. What we learn in this gentle comedy are the crises that happened. One morning, for instance, Cliff says, "Glenn, come here." "What?" Al Burnett looks at Glenn. "Every coordinate in this book has been changed," he says. "Yeah... I changed them," Glenn says. "Why?" "Because they were wrong." "Why were they wrong," Al asks. "Dunno," Glenn says. Latham steps in. "What about them were wrong," he asks Glenn. "Oh! Well," Glenn says, "the figures NASA gave us were for the northern hemisphere... and we're in the southern hemisphere? I can change them back but then you'd be pointing in the wrong dir..." "Glenn, it might be a good idea for you to tell us these things," Cliff says. "Oh, sure, I just didn't want to worry you... Cuppa tea, Al?"

There's the pride and enthusiasm that overtakes everyone living in Parkes, the visit from the U.S. ambassador and the Australian prime Minister that sends everyone into a tizzy, the near disaster that occurs when contact is lost with Apollo 11 and how an amusing appearance of imperturbability is maintained in public when everything from failed back-up generators, wiped-out computers and a gale promises one of the biggest let-downs -- no television broadcast -- for the entire world. For me, one of the reasons this movie works so well is because Parkes is an idealized small town where everyone knows each other, there are absolutely no secrets, and where the people have personalities which are calculated to be amusing but which aren't manipulated into becoming caricatures. Bob McIntyre (Roy Billing), the mayor of Parkes, is a fireplug of a guy who resembles Bob Hoskins. The technical aspects of what's happening may go over his head, but he's willing to give the benefit of the doubt to almost anyone. His relationship with his wife, May (Genevieve Mooy), is friendly, loving and pleasant to observe. We learn a little, and occasionally a lot, about the people of Parkes and we wind up liking them. This is comedy, but it's gentle stuff. When we smile at a person's puzzlement, dialogue or reaction it's because we appreciate the situation, not that we're enjoying our own superiority.

Sam Neil, smoking a pipe and wearing a sweater, provides the steady center of the movie. He does a fine job. The Dish is more or less based on a true story and we're told at the end that the radio telescope is still part of the NASA tracking network. The DVD transfer is first-rate. There are no significant extras.
Dish Dogs
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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Dish Dogs
Starring: Sean Astin , Matthew Lillard , Brian Dennehy , Shannon Elizabeth , and Maitland Ward
Director: Robert Kubilos
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ASIN: B00004TX5U
Release Date: 2000-08-29

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3 out of 5 stars Please enter a title for your review.......2007-04-15

i was going to write a review that just said "as good as swingers", then the movie reached the halfway point and fell apart. the non-serious guy suddenly gets all mad at the serious guy for no reason. then the friendliest stripper ever has sex with the serious guy and consequently gets mad at him for no reason. it seems like maybe there were deleted scenes that would have made the fights make sense.

5 out of 5 stars a great film!.......2003-07-28

this film rocks. dont let anyone tell you otherwise.
the plot is completely original (a rare thing these days) and is funny, cute and very entertaining. Sean Astin, as usual, is brilliant, funny and manages to get the audience to side with him despite his character being a bit... odd. Even Matthew Lillard, who i normally find intensely irritating, is very watchable. The chemistry between the two of them is brilliant (hell, they're more entertaining than Astin getting it together with Shannon Elizabeth...)
A very entertaining film, definitely worth a watch!

1 out of 5 stars 1-1/2 stars -- Movies don't get much wacker than this.......2003-04-15

Morgan (Sean Astin) is a dish washer. Anne (Shannon Elizabeth) is a stripper. They both cross paths and eventually fall in love, and Morgan decides he has to leave because love and commitment scares him that much. Does this even sound remotely interesting to you?

If it doesn't, you're right. This movie was made for video and it isn't even worth that. I advise everyone to watch something else. (By the way, has anyone else noticed that Shannon Elizabeth has put a "no-nudity" clause in recent contracts - and she hasn't worked since?)

4 out of 5 stars A pretty good movie!.......2003-02-18

I rented this movie primarily to see Sean Astin. I thought it was a pretty good movie. It was kinda boring in the beginning but it gets better further into the movie. I wasn't sure if I wanted to buy this until after I finished watching it and my sister said she loved it. Sean Astin & Matthew Lillard are great together in this movie. Shannon Elizabeth did a pretty good job and I think her and Sean are cute together. I would give this movie 4 stars. It's a pretty good movie.

3 out of 5 stars Shannon Elizabeth looks different!.......2002-03-03

I've only seen clips of this movie so I can't say whether I like it or not. But I CAN say this: I think Shannon Elizabeth got implants! Watch this movie then watch American Pie. She may have had a growth spurt, but...
I Married a Strange Person!
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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I Married a Strange Person!
Starring: Charis Michelsen , Tom Larson , Richard Spore , Chris Cooke , and Ruth Ray
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ASIN: B0000A1HR8
Release Date: 2003-08-19

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From animation genius Bill Plympton comes this high-spirited and sexually charged comedy about a wife who realizes that the man of her dreams isn't quite what he seems! Keri Boyer promised to love her husband Grant for better or worse, but she never expected this. It seems as though an odd growth on Grant's neck has given him the ability to will his fantasies to life. In no time, he's torturing his annoying mother-in-law, dreaming up bizarre sexual adventures and turning his wife's life upside down. But when everyone from an ambitious television executive to a hopeless Las Vegas comedian to an overly enthusiastic Army colonel wants a piece of Grant's growth for themselves, it's up to this little lady to save her husband and her sanity.

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    Because two copulating birds bash into his satellite dish, the blandly handsome Grant develops godlike powers. When he and his new bride Kerry have sex, the entire house joins in, from the soap dish to the electric sockets. Grant manipulates her breasts to form balloon animals; he changes her into a blonde, then a nun, then the Statue of Liberty. Basically, he's become an animator like his creator Bill Plympton, able to make the world reflect his every id-driven whim. Is it any wonder that Kerry begins to question if Grant is still the same straight-up guy she married? Plympton's new animated movie, I Married a Strange Person!, opens with a quote from Picasso: "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativity." Plympton has taken this perhaps a little too much to heart, but with a good dose of sprightly charm. Plympton's drawing style vibrates, shimmies, and pops with boyish cheer. The movie is regularly punctuated with breezy songs that you'd imagine sound great on a ukulele, sung by some guy in a straw boater. Over-the-top sex and violence and crazed excursions into the origin of belly-button lint combine to produce a weird, sparkling movie. I Married a Strange Person! is clearly the pure product of Plympton's imagination, without any meddling from studio executives. --Bret Fetzer

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    4 out of 5 stars Tell EVERYONE, just do it quiet........2006-10-23

    Disney, Pixar, Miyazaki, and most other popular animation houses have nothing on this. Sometimes as few as four frames a second. Often you see all the crayon marks. Often he'll skip into another style of animation all together. Plympton is the David Lynch of animation. Gory, sexy, twisted, surreal.
    Plympton is a true auteur. He designs everything himself, collaborating with as few people as possible. He has a small team of colourists, with all the animation either done or overseen closely himself. The result is always surprising, eclectic and surreal. Creating something lacking from ALL the visual art's these days which is a sense of its own logic. `Where Tears Come From' is a perfect example. We all know it's not true, but which is more fun to believe? Does your average man on the street ever REALLY need to know what causes a tear? So why is it important for Bill to let us in on the facts when the version here is so much more fun.
    I was first introduced to Plympton via the adapted version of one of his shorts or Plymptoons as they are dubbed. Used to advertise Nik-Nak's- a British snack. I loved it but thought it was a one off. Then one night I was trying to sleep with the TV on, and The Tune was being screened as part of Animation week on Channel 4, it woke me up, and I stayed up to watch it. Surprised to find that the original version of the Nik-Nak advert was part of The Tune, as well as a short in it's own right.
    A lot of criticism towards Plympton is aimed at the fact that his storylines are thin and pointless and badly executed, but this is in itself a pointless criticism as something important has been missed. This ain't Hollywood. Linear narrative can sit perfectly well as second to invention and imagination. His style can often put people off, due to it's often jerky delivery, and rough style. But this is once again part of the charm. After all it's animation, and that makes no apologies, unlike Miyazaki and Disney who try to give you the impression your watching a version of reality with all the cutesiness turned up to eleven. Big eyes, big sighs, and big heart. Plympton's heroes are often confused, emotionally impotent characters, full of insecurity and self doubt and more relatable to for it. Always coming through at the end giving us something more important than coherent stories, a full interior journey for the characters. The end of I Married A Strange Person is all about heart and the power of love and the doubt about yourself and your relationship that is as intrinsic to marriage itself as is the courtship which preceded it.
    A rough outline of the story is about a young couple, just married, when due to a freak mishap Grant develops a lobe on his neck which allows all his fantasies to come true. When a shady business man finds out he wants it for himself, putting Grant on the run, with nowhere to turn.
    The thing that I love the most about Plympton's work here, and in everything I've seen. Is it has more invention and imagination that all the Star Wars trilogy and LOTR, Costing less to produce his whole film than Gollum's animation for 20 seconds, or one swipe of a rota-scoped light sabre.
    Word to the folks though, this film is not for kiddiewinks, small ones anyway. Teenagers will find it funny, but it's too sexually twisted for the little ones, if I'd thought at ten years old that a girls nipple could have my eye out, I wouldn't have turned out to be the well balanced serial killer I aspire to be now.
    I can see me becoming a compleatist of Bill's and would urge you to do the same and start by buying this, since it's finally available on DVD. And I'm sure that it will soon be deleted cos not enough people have heard of him and true art like this deserves to be seen and encouraged.
    Buy it, even as a curiosity. I promise you wont be disappointed. And I cant wait to see what he comes up with next- the twisted freak of a man. It'd be nice to know who out there is on the same tenterhooks as me.

    4 out of 5 stars Ambitious yet clever.......2004-06-02

    Before MTV took a 180 and became reality show heavy, I had gotten a chance to watch Bill Plympton's shorts. His stylized portrayals of scenes and unique look (which the book "Masters of Animation" explained as him drawing on paper and then some one transferring it onto cell) made his work stand out on its own. So when it seemed like he had actually made a full length movie, hey I decided to give it a shot.

    What I saw was an ambitious yet clever attempt at exploring storytelling through animation. The plot involves an everyman gets an odd lobe in his neck that increases the imagination section of his brain, causing any thing he thinks of to come true. What better way to bring about the surreal images that follow? Many of the scenes reminded me of Ralph Bakshi's early work, especially perhaps "Streetfight (also known as "Coonskin") - except, of course, those were based on drug highs, while Bill Plympton's work is based on the limits of the imagination - to which there are none. If you want to have grass ride a lawnmower over a human, go ahead! If you want to play with women's breasts like they're balloons, fine!

    The only downfall to me was the narrative often tended to drag - so much that I was almost tempted to give this three stars. There are enough highlights through out the film to keep one interested, although one or two times I wondered how long such a story structure could last. However, like I said before, there were enough visuals to keep me interested the whole way out. I also was interested in some of the underlying meanings behind the story - like for example, did any one ever consider the scenario of a company trying to control imagination? In such a time when situations like at Disney where producers are taking over the jobs for which artists were responsible, I find that to be a strong statement.

    BTW...I have the stupid Smile Corporation anthem stuck in my head. Oh well..."We are the Smile Corps Corporation! / We bring smiles a-cross the nation!..."

    4 out of 5 stars Insanity and sex and violence.......2004-04-11

    basically this entire movie can be summed up into two words: acid trip. the film certainly seems this way as it showcases some crazy animation (a man getting chased on a lawnmower by a blade of grass, who later turns into an orange caterpillar). i reccomend you smoke or drop something before seeing this movie as it makes it funnier and more interesting, but insane either way.

    5 out of 5 stars Creative, inventive and side-splittingly funny.......2004-04-09

    `I Married a Strange Person' is (I think) Bill Plympton's second full-length animated film (is that right? I'm not sure), and does not disappoint for a minute. Like `The Tune', `I Married a Strange Person' is a completely original animation film, done in Plympton's completely unique style, and is extremely visually inventive and creative. It's also incredibly funny, and creates some wonderful, hilarious characters. Even for Plympton, it's unusually twisted and bizarre, full of sex and violence at their most hilarious. Also some brilliant musical segments with songs by Plympton's old collaborator Maureen McElheron (`I'm happy, you're happy, everybody's happy...')

    So, for Plympton fans, and any fan of adult animation or underground cinema, this film is highly recommended. Still, to be fair, a few words of caution: `I Married a Strange Person' is extremely hard-core, with very explicit (though hilarious) scenes of sex and violence. There is, in fact, one (funny and inventive) sex scene that lasts over five minutes. The plot, also, makes very little sense, and the movie often seems to be weirdness and sickness for weirdness' and sickness' sake. If that doesn't bother you, buy it, by all means. If you have a sense of humor and are not easily offended, `I Married a Strange Person' will be a pleasure. If you're a Plympton fan, don't even think twice - this is one of his best works. If you're not familiar with his work, by all means familiarize yourself.

    5 out of 5 stars how could anyone not like plympton?.......2003-11-25

    this movie is a masterpiece of ingenius creativity at it's best.
    Eazy Cookin' With Chef Robert: Familiar Mexican Dishes
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    5 out of 5 stars Eazy Cookin Familiar Mexican Dishes.......2004-05-25

    I can't believe how easy it really is to cook all these classic Mexican dishes. My boyfriend loved the enchiladas I made for him and the guacamole is always everybody's favorite at my families parties.
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          I Married a Strange Person!
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
          • Tell EVERYONE, just do it quiet.
          • Ambitious yet clever
          • Insanity and sex and violence
          • Creative, inventive and side-splittingly funny
          • how could anyone not like plympton?
          I Married a Strange Person!
          Starring: Charis Michelsen , Tom Larson , Richard Spore , Chris Cooke , and Ruth Ray
          Director: Bill Plympton
          Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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          ASIN: 0783241240
          Release Date: 2000-04-25

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          Because two copulating birds bash into his satellite dish, the blandly handsome Grant develops godlike powers. When he and his new bride Kerry have sex, the entire house joins in, from the soap dish to the electric sockets. Grant manipulates her breasts to form balloon animals; he changes her into a blonde, then a nun, then the Statue of Liberty. Basically, he's become an animator like his creator Bill Plympton, able to make the world reflect his every id-driven whim. Is it any wonder that Kerry begins to question if Grant is still the same straight-up guy she married? Plympton's new animated movie, I Married a Strange Person!, opens with a quote from Picasso: "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativity." Plympton has taken this perhaps a little too much to heart, but with a good dose of sprightly charm. Plympton's drawing style vibrates, shimmies, and pops with boyish cheer. The movie is regularly punctuated with breezy songs that you'd imagine sound great on a ukulele, sung by some guy in a straw boater. Over-the-top sex and violence and crazed excursions into the origin of belly-button lint combine to produce a weird, sparkling movie. I Married a Strange Person! is clearly the pure product of Plympton's imagination, without any meddling from studio executives. --Bret Fetzer

          Customer Reviews:

          4 out of 5 stars Tell EVERYONE, just do it quiet........2006-10-23

          Disney, Pixar, Miyazaki, and most other popular animation houses have nothing on this. Sometimes as few as four frames a second. Often you see all the crayon marks. Often he'll skip into another style of animation all together. Plympton is the David Lynch of animation. Gory, sexy, twisted, surreal.
          Plympton is a true auteur. He designs everything himself, collaborating with as few people as possible. He has a small team of colourists, with all the animation either done or overseen closely himself. The result is always surprising, eclectic and surreal. Creating something lacking from ALL the visual art's these days which is a sense of its own logic. `Where Tears Come From' is a perfect example. We all know it's not true, but which is more fun to believe? Does your average man on the street ever REALLY need to know what causes a tear? So why is it important for Bill to let us in on the facts when the version here is so much more fun.
          I was first introduced to Plympton via the adapted version of one of his shorts or Plymptoons as they are dubbed. Used to advertise Nik-Nak's- a British snack. I loved it but thought it was a one off. Then one night I was trying to sleep with the TV on, and The Tune was being screened as part of Animation week on Channel 4, it woke me up, and I stayed up to watch it. Surprised to find that the original version of the Nik-Nak advert was part of The Tune, as well as a short in it's own right.
          A lot of criticism towards Plympton is aimed at the fact that his storylines are thin and pointless and badly executed, but this is in itself a pointless criticism as something important has been missed. This ain't Hollywood. Linear narrative can sit perfectly well as second to invention and imagination. His style can often put people off, due to it's often jerky delivery, and rough style. But this is once again part of the charm. After all it's animation, and that makes no apologies, unlike Miyazaki and Disney who try to give you the impression your watching a version of reality with all the cutesiness turned up to eleven. Big eyes, big sighs, and big heart. Plympton's heroes are often confused, emotionally impotent characters, full of insecurity and self doubt and more relatable to for it. Always coming through at the end giving us something more important than coherent stories, a full interior journey for the characters. The end of I Married A Strange Person is all about heart and the power of love and the doubt about yourself and your relationship that is as intrinsic to marriage itself as is the courtship which preceded it.
          A rough outline of the story is about a young couple, just married, when due to a freak mishap Grant develops a lobe on his neck which allows all his fantasies to come true. When a shady business man finds out he wants it for himself, putting Grant on the run, with nowhere to turn.
          The thing that I love the most about Plympton's work here, and in everything I've seen. Is it has more invention and imagination that all the Star Wars trilogy and LOTR, Costing less to produce his whole film than Gollum's animation for 20 seconds, or one swipe of a rota-scoped light sabre.
          Word to the folks though, this film is not for kiddiewinks, small ones anyway. Teenagers will find it funny, but it's too sexually twisted for the little ones, if I'd thought at ten years old that a girls nipple could have my eye out, I wouldn't have turned out to be the well balanced serial killer I aspire to be now.
          I can see me becoming a compleatist of Bill's and would urge you to do the same and start by buying this, since it's finally available on DVD. And I'm sure that it will soon be deleted cos not enough people have heard of him and true art like this deserves to be seen and encouraged.
          Buy it, even as a curiosity. I promise you wont be disappointed. And I cant wait to see what he comes up with next- the twisted freak of a man. It'd be nice to know who out there is on the same tenterhooks as me.

          4 out of 5 stars Ambitious yet clever.......2004-06-02

          Before MTV took a 180 and became reality show heavy, I had gotten a chance to watch Bill Plympton's shorts. His stylized portrayals of scenes and unique look (which the book "Masters of Animation" explained as him drawing on paper and then some one transferring it onto cell) made his work stand out on its own. So when it seemed like he had actually made a full length movie, hey I decided to give it a shot.

          What I saw was an ambitious yet clever attempt at exploring storytelling through animation. The plot involves an everyman gets an odd lobe in his neck that increases the imagination section of his brain, causing any thing he thinks of to come true. What better way to bring about the surreal images that follow? Many of the scenes reminded me of Ralph Bakshi's early work, especially perhaps "Streetfight (also known as "Coonskin") - except, of course, those were based on drug highs, while Bill Plympton's work is based on the limits of the imagination - to which there are none. If you want to have grass ride a lawnmower over a human, go ahead! If you want to play with women's breasts like they're balloons, fine!

          The only downfall to me was the narrative often tended to drag - so much that I was almost tempted to give this three stars. There are enough highlights through out the film to keep one interested, although one or two times I wondered how long such a story structure could last. However, like I said before, there were enough visuals to keep me interested the whole way out. I also was interested in some of the underlying meanings behind the story - like for example, did any one ever consider the scenario of a company trying to control imagination? In such a time when situations like at Disney where producers are taking over the jobs for which artists were responsible, I find that to be a strong statement.

          BTW...I have the stupid Smile Corporation anthem stuck in my head. Oh well..."We are the Smile Corps Corporation! / We bring smiles a-cross the nation!..."

          4 out of 5 stars Insanity and sex and violence.......2004-04-11

          basically this entire movie can be summed up into two words: acid trip. the film certainly seems this way as it showcases some crazy animation (a man getting chased on a lawnmower by a blade of grass, who later turns into an orange caterpillar). i reccomend you smoke or drop something before seeing this movie as it makes it funnier and more interesting, but insane either way.

          5 out of 5 stars Creative, inventive and side-splittingly funny.......2004-04-09

          `I Married a Strange Person' is (I think) Bill Plympton's second full-length animated film (is that right? I'm not sure), and does not disappoint for a minute. Like `The Tune', `I Married a Strange Person' is a completely original animation film, done in Plympton's completely unique style, and is extremely visually inventive and creative. It's also incredibly funny, and creates some wonderful, hilarious characters. Even for Plympton, it's unusually twisted and bizarre, full of sex and violence at their most hilarious. Also some brilliant musical segments with songs by Plympton's old collaborator Maureen McElheron (`I'm happy, you're happy, everybody's happy...')

          So, for Plympton fans, and any fan of adult animation or underground cinema, this film is highly recommended. Still, to be fair, a few words of caution: `I Married a Strange Person' is extremely hard-core, with very explicit (though hilarious) scenes of sex and violence. There is, in fact, one (funny and inventive) sex scene that lasts over five minutes. The plot, also, makes very little sense, and the movie often seems to be weirdness and sickness for weirdness' and sickness' sake. If that doesn't bother you, buy it, by all means. If you have a sense of humor and are not easily offended, `I Married a Strange Person' will be a pleasure. If you're a Plympton fan, don't even think twice - this is one of his best works. If you're not familiar with his work, by all means familiarize yourself.

          5 out of 5 stars how could anyone not like plympton?.......2003-11-25

          this movie is a masterpiece of ingenius creativity at it's best.
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