This one did not impress me very much. I don't care for the Beat movement at all, the animation was marginal at best, the POINT was so obvious that I felt that the writer/director was beating me over the head with it most of a very short film and this just didn't work for me on any level. If your tastes run to Beat poetry and polemics, you may enjoy this one. You are thus warned: for me, here there be boredom. It can be found on Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation, Vol 4, I believe.
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Just fair thanks to rather mundane retro animation
planktonrules20 September 2008
This short animated film is part of "Spike and Mike's Cutting Edge Classics"--a DVD filled with an hour and a half of very short animated films. Most of them are pretty good and the DVD is much better than the other Spike and Mike one I saw a few months back.
IDDY BIDDY BEAT BOY is an animated film about a beatnik boy who loves to talk Beat Generation style poetry. Sadly, however, IDDY BIDDY BEAT BOY was not one of the better films. While it wasn't bad and was somewhat clever as a concept and had a good ending, it also suffered from very poor animation and a story that just wasn't all that great. The animation makes the film appear to have been made in the late 1960s--when animation generally sucked. There is wide use of crayons, incredibly simplistic drawings and backgrounds as well as a "cheap" look that might have been acceptable back in the 60s but which looked very out of place in 1993. I understand that they were going for a retro look, but it just came off looking poor.
IDDY BIDDY BEAT BOY is an animated film about a beatnik boy who loves to talk Beat Generation style poetry. Sadly, however, IDDY BIDDY BEAT BOY was not one of the better films. While it wasn't bad and was somewhat clever as a concept and had a good ending, it also suffered from very poor animation and a story that just wasn't all that great. The animation makes the film appear to have been made in the late 1960s--when animation generally sucked. There is wide use of crayons, incredibly simplistic drawings and backgrounds as well as a "cheap" look that might have been acceptable back in the 60s but which looked very out of place in 1993. I understand that they were going for a retro look, but it just came off looking poor.
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