Friday night movie
In honor of Nathan's recent behind-the-scenes challenge, I present my favorite species of amphibian in my favorite animated film by my favorite director of animation (and several of you no doubt already know what follows even without the YouTube screenshot):
(Happy Friday, everybody!)
Comments
This is a perfect animated film. It tells a completely comprehensible and fully-plotted story with no dialogue and the only voice in the film is a singing frog. O'course some people find Jones' distinctive drawing style too cute, and I guess I can understand that tho' I disagree vehemently (I find his characters' expressive eyes marvellously done).
So I'm pretty curious as to why you hate it, although you say you don't know why. Is it something to do with the style of animation? Something about the songs? The frog? A general aversion to animation, or a general aversion to Jones? Is it something visceral about the way the man is assumed to be crazy (and perhaps he is--only one other character ever sees the frog sing!) and is destroyed over the course of the film (including an incarceration in a "psychopathic hospital")?
Any ideas?
Brilliant.
But you couldn't make this cartoon today - because "Free Beer!" + The Homeless + and The Mentally Ill = not funny.
Am I still out of the will?