The Animation Show (2003)

Release Date:

18 July 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy

Plot:

The Animation Show is an international collection of the world's best animated short films, programmed by co-producers Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt...

Plot Keywords:

Compilation

Also Known As:

Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt Present: The Animation Show (USA) (poster title)

MPAA:

Rated R for some violent and sexual content.

Runtime:

102 min (DVD version) | USA:94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Japanese | German

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Canada:PG | USA:Not Rated

Company:

The Animation Show

Movie Connections:

Edited from Bathtime in Clerkenwell (2003)

Good think pieces, weak on the comedy

A collection of nineteen animated films. `Das Rad' is the story of the rise and fall of the human civilization as witnessed by two rocks. At the end conditions return to how they were before man and the human existence is seen as only one part of the cycle of the world. `Parking' is about a man who has a pristine parking lot ready to open when he discovers a weed. In his battle with the weed the parking lot is never opened. The moral of the story: keep the big picture in mind and don't get consumed by the details. Another, which is a look into the afterlife, depicts the torture of an inescapable eternity. A soldier who finds himself in heaven tries to kill himself, which takes him to purgatory, again tries to kill himself and ends up in hell where he is out of bullets. Last of my favorites was a Japanese cartoon in which a man who saves everything he finds grows a tree out of his head. People begin to live there. When he gets angry at their excesses he tears the trees from its roots creating a hole. But the hole gathers water and people still congregate. In the end the man, who is the symbolic conservationist, dies from the excesses of the people leading to the ultimate demise of nature. Some of the comedy pieces I didn't think were very funny but overall I would recommend seeing this for the above-mentioned films.