Outrageous, outlandish, and more than a little perverse, Mutant Aliens could only have sprung from the mind and drawing board of animator Bill Plympton. As with his previous features The Tune and I Married a Strange Person, Plympton can’t sustain an idea very long before he drifts into wild digressions, in this case involving plenty of boisterous sex and blood-spattering violence, and his story’s too weak to hold your undivided attention. Still, who else but Plympton could serve up a raunchy freak-show about a stranded astronaut rescued by nose-shaped aliens, his sexually insatiable daughter and her dim-bulb boyfriend, a bevy of mutated lab animals, and a greedy corporate shark bent on exploiting them all? Plympton’s minimalist style combines watercolor impressionism with crudely animated weirdness; he’s got the mind of a juvenile delinquent, indulging his fantasies through animation that’s unmistakably his own. If that means that storytelling takes a back seat to bizarre space oddities, who better than Plympton to go crazily over the top? —Jeff Shannon
Universal Pictures has revealed the new trailer for director Jon Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens! Opening in theaters on July 29, the action thriller will take audiences into the Old West, where a cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde (TRON),…
Since Halloween is so close, I thought we needed a nice Top 10 Kids Halloween Movies List. I created this list by asking my own sons for help on this. We came up with Halloween Town, Casper, Hocus Pocus, The Haunted Mansion, Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride, Coralina, Monsters Inc.,…
Jon Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens is mouth watering and looks to be shaping up nicely. The live-action comic book adaptation is said to be milder and not as dark as the comic books. Cowboys and Aliens hits theaters July 29 and I bet Universal Pictures can’t wait to drop this…