From the Big Bang to Tuesday Morning (2000) User Reviews

Evotion from a shirt collar!

[vieira-adam · 8/10 · 22 January 2007]

An ironic take on the origins of humanity, filled with humor.

An entertaining visual metamorphosis starting from the Big bang to every stage of biological evolution from the earliest forms of marine life, to dinosaurs, mammals and dogs to the eventual creation of Homo sapiens, all springing fort from a shirt collar.

I truly love this film. The first time I saw it I was taken aback by the beauty of the 3000 illustrations in the film, which were all achieved in India ink and a Windsor Newton series 7 brush! Well timed, excellent use of the frame, with stunning drawings, Claude Cloutier is truly a master illustrator.

A must have for all film animation enthusiasts.

The Story So Far

[boblipton · 7/10 · 14 February 2020]

The title sums it it, a story that begins with the Big Bang, setting the universe into existence, followed by four and a half years of life on earth, ending with a man in a car, stuck in a Tuesday morning traffic jam.

It's all free, unconfined motion until life crawls out of the water. After that, each stage in evolution comes out of the neck of a shirt collar, with tie and jacket. It maintains its interest, despite its subdued color palette, by means of a throbbing, driving musical score. Each stage is more involved, more organized, but is it evolution or variations on a theme?