It's a sophisticated fantasia that adults should enjoy equally. (In other words, it's the perfect family entertainment.)
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Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
A Town Called Panic, which has more strident colors and less synopsizable action than a year's worth of comic-book adventures, embodies a sensibility that might be termed "extreme quirk."
Once you get over the droll joke of seeing an equine Web surfer wearing a bathrobe and sipping his morning coffee, the movie settles into a shrill groove from which it never escapes.