I Married A Strange Person

From the loony light table of Bill Plympton, whose work has been a mainstay of the Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted festivals, comes this hilarious feature-length tale of sex, television, espionage, and marital discord. Newlyweds Grant and Kerry seem to have no problems -- well, okay, she always wants sex when he's working, and he can't find two words to say to his in-laws. But when Grant begins to exhibit strange powers (his fantasies become real) during lovemaking, which include morphing Kerry into different women, she wonders whether he's a superhero -- or maybe the Antichrist. Grant also wreaks havoc in his neighborhood, siccing lawns upon lawnmowers and causing cockroaches to stream, Creepshow-like, out of people's orifices. When he displays his amazing abilities on a talk show, he becomes the target of an evil media mogul and an evil army colonel -- who want to steal his powers so they can rule the world.

Okay, it's not exactly The Grapes of Wrath -- but this is a cartoon. And what a cartoon! Horny animals, fornicating tanks, exploding entrails, shocking stream-of-consciousness imagery -- delightfully offensive! Cross the artful violence of Akira with the deadpan silliness of The Simpsons and you get the psychotropic slapstick of Bill Plympton.

-- Peg Aloi