Wow. I enjoy the imaginative works of Bill Plympton, but this was too Ally McBeal like. His pacing was way off. He exaggerates items lacking in humor for agonizingly long times. Bill's strength is in comic wild takes, but they cannot work without something normal to play off. In this way, he should take some note of "King of the Hill" and let some scenes relax to normality and allow a plot to progress.
Bill is great at deconstructing the norm, but this gave me more yawns than laughs. It actually had many long stretches of boredom. The scenes designed to offend or shock just were bland tedious and awkward. The scenes that worked were the ones where the music played. The only other ones I liked were the basic underexaggeration humor (like the general behaving like a kid without his favorite toy). Mostly there was too much animation looping in the midst of predictable overused gags lacking a fraction of subtlety. Yawn.
Bill is great at deconstructing the norm, but this gave me more yawns than laughs. It actually had many long stretches of boredom. The scenes designed to offend or shock just were bland tedious and awkward. The scenes that worked were the ones where the music played. The only other ones I liked were the basic underexaggeration humor (like the general behaving like a kid without his favorite toy). Mostly there was too much animation looping in the midst of predictable overused gags lacking a fraction of subtlety. Yawn.