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04/14/07
Hair High (2006)
78 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 14 Rotten:4 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 78 mins
Synopsis: "Hair High" is a gothic high-school comedy with a "Carrie"-like story. Cherri and Rod are the high-school king and queen and they justifiably rule their domain. Spud, the new kid in town, accidentally offends both Cherri and Rod and so is forced to become Cherri's slave. Naturally, they... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Director: Bill Plympton
Reviews
1 - 19 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top Critic
Plympton's fourth feature film is also his least inspired, but it's still very much worth a look.
04/19/07
It's a wickedly fine ensemble and Plympton gives everyone free rein, which is no surprise from the creator of this irreverent, freewheeling delight.
04/13/07
Hair High is not for everyone, but it's not like anything else out right now.
04/12/07
Top Critic
Rarely is filmmaking of any kind this exuberant, this inventive or this entertaining.
02/09/07
It's probably time for Plympton -- who's been making films for nearly 30 years -- to try to do something a little loftier.
01/12/07
With sharp animation, funny gags and catchy songs, Hair High plays like the weirdest, and improbably sweetest, send-up of Grease you'll ever see.
01/12/07
Much of the visual comedy comes from the incongruous proportions of the bodies: skinny legs and puffed-out chests.
12/01/06
The film spoils itself %u2014 and not in the way Plympton has spoiled his fans so much before.
11/23/06
An amusing send-up of late '50s/early '60s high-school melodramas and teen-tragedy pop hits.
10/19/06
Top Critic
The monstrous images that are so effective in Plympton's short Plymptoons can be unpleasant at feature length and eventually overwhelm what is, at heart, a Grease-like teen–movie parody.
10/18/06
None of this is for kids, and the way Plympton works clearly isn't for studios. It's just for grown-up fans of eye-catching animation.
10/18/06
In the gleefully outrageous animated feature Hair High, director Bill Plympton walks the border between ridiculously gross and outright offensive.
10/18/06
Top Critic
Too glib to qualify as satire, Hair High nails the high school experience.
10/17/06
Demonstrates the problem with taking a singular animated style -- best seen in witty, small doses -- and extending it to a 78-minute feature that taxes one's patience.
03/24/06
When Plympton's freak flag flies, Hair High delivers the same whacked-out weirdness of his shorts. The rest of the film simply stretches out the simple premise...
03/23/06
Just remember all of the anxieties you had in high school and apply them to Plympton’s twisted gray matter.
04/17/04
Hair High is the actually the artist's most cohesive 'story' to date...which means it's only about 35% weirder than any other sort of animation out there.
04/06/04
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