Seldom has a black heart been served up so vividly.
Idiots and Angels (2008)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:8
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.3/10
Genre: Animation
Director: Bill Plympton
Director: Bill Plympton
Reviews for Idiots and Angels
Even without a word of dialogue, Plympton's dark fable about the almost unnatural redemption of a lost soul content in its damnation is easily understood, and neatly told.
You're not going to come out of the movie a [Plympton] fan if you don't go in as one.
I like to think Plympton would take it as a compliment if I said he sees human beings as little more than a debased sum of bodily functions.
Although this is, in part, a darkly comic exploration of man's inhumanity to man, there is a current of optimism, flowing like the artwork, beneath the story.
Good battles evil as a gun-running, booze-swilling, cigarette-puffing badass is dragged, kicking and screaming, toward salvation in Bill Plympton's slyly sardonic black comedy, his best animated feature to date.
Beautifully creepy... Less concerned with gags than nimble storytelling and wide-screen aesthetics (every brooding corner of the frame is blotted in monochromatic noir hues), Plympton mines elegance from the utterly gonzo.
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