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I Married a Strange Person!
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9780783241241
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783241240
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 25, 2000
Running Time: 73 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: August 28, 1998
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Editorial Review:
Because two copulating birds bash into his satellite dish, the blandly handsome Grant develops godlike powers. When he and his new bride Kerry have sex, the entire house joins in, from the soap dish to the electric sockets. Grant manipulates her breasts to form balloon animals; he changes her into a blonde, then a nun, then the Statue of Liberty. Basically, he's become an animator like his creator Bill Plympton, able to make the world reflect his every id-driven whim. Is it any wonder that Kerry begins to question if Grant is still the same straight-up guy she married? Plympton's new animated movie, I Married a Strange Person!, opens with a quote from Picasso: "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativity." Plympton has taken this perhaps a little too much to heart, but with a good dose of sprightly charm. Plympton's drawing style vibrates, shimmies, and pops with boyish cheer. The movie is regularly punctuated with breezy songs that you'd imagine sound great on a ukulele, sung by some guy in a straw boater. Over-the-top sex and violence and crazed excursions into the origin of belly-button lint combine to produce a weird, sparkling movie. I Married a Strange Person! is clearly the pure product of Plympton's imagination, without any meddling from studio executives. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Tell EVERYONE, just do it quiet.
Disney, Pixar, Miyazaki, and most other popular animation houses have nothing on this. Sometimes as few as four frames a second. Often you see all the crayon marks. Often he'll skip into another style of animation all together. Plympton is the David Lynch of animation. Gory, sexy, twisted, surreal.
Plympton is a true auteur. He designs everything himself, collaborating with as few people as possible. He has a small team of colourists, with all the animation either done or overseen closely ... Read More
Rating: - Ambitious yet clever
Before MTV took a 180 and became reality show heavy, I had gotten a chance to watch Bill Plympton's shorts. His stylized portrayals of scenes and unique look (which the book "Masters of Animation" explained as him drawing on paper and then some one transferring it onto cell) made his work stand out on its own. So when it seemed like he had actually made a full length movie, hey I decided to give it a shot.
What I saw was an ambitious yet clever attempt at exploring storytelling through animation. ... Read More
Rating: - Insanity and sex and violence
basically this entire movie can be summed up into two words: acid trip. the film certainly seems this way as it showcases some crazy animation (a man getting chased on a lawnmower by a blade of grass, who later turns into an orange caterpillar). i reccomend you smoke or drop something before seeing this movie as it makes it funnier and more interesting, but insane either way.
Rating:  - Creative, inventive and side-splittingly funny
`I Married a Strange Person' is (I think) Bill Plympton's second full-length animated film (is that right? I'm not sure), and does not disappoint for a minute. Like `The Tune', `I Married a Strange Person' is a completely original animation film, done in Plympton's completely unique style, and is extremely visually inventive and creative. It's also incredibly funny, and creates some wonderful, hilarious characters. Even for Plympton, it's unusually twisted and bizarre, full of sex and violence at their ... Read More
Rating: - how could anyone not like plympton?
this movie is a masterpiece of ingenius creativity at it's best.
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