Spring Break
Spike & Mike proves to be
more than just gross
Beau Dowling / Daily Staff Editor
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Photo courtesy of Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation" SRC="http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper852/thumbs/t_3afb510391705-96-1.gif" target=new>The flick opens this Friday at the Towne Theater, at 1422 The Alameda, with short animated films by artists from around the world.
For “Sick and Twisted” fans, the classic festival is a grave letdown.
However, what it lacks in grotesque humor, the flick makes up for in breathtaking animation and comedy.
This is the kind of film to bring the kids to see, with no threat of jokes surrounding excrement, sex or violence, as seen in “Sick and Twisted.”
The classic festival is toned down and gives more emphasis on the animation itself.
There is one animated short that was held over from the “Sick and Twisted” that runs on the classic festival, titled “Rejected.”
“Rejected” is the funniest short of the film, not for the animation, but for the premises.
The story is about animator Don Hertzfeldt, who was hired to do publicity for a fake TV station called the Family Learning Channel.
Hertzfeldt comes up with crudely drawn cartoons that have nothing to do with advertising the station.
Another short, titled “Europe and Italy” by Italian animator Bruno Bozzetto, humorously shows the difference between the way things are done in both regions.
In “Metropopular,” by Bay Area filmmaker Jonah Hall, there is a fictional contest to decide which city is the best.
Every major city in the United States is personified with every kind of stereotype, with faces either on the landscape or the buildings.
Los Angeles is surrounded by airplanes, and the city keeps saying if it wins, the judges will be put in its latest film.
San Francisco talks in a passive, arrogant voice, sure that it will win.
San Antonio chimes in with a country-twang accent, referring to the other cities as “city slickers.”
Aside from being funny, some of the shorts are just plain strange and seem to drag on.
Most of the other clips are strange as well, and leave the audience wondering, “What the hell?”
Even though this could never hold a candle to the “Sick and Twisted” film, the “Classic Festival of Animation” is worth a look.
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