Bill Plympton's fourth feature-length animated film, about a group of aliens that return to earth with an astronaut who was lost in space for 20 years, is campy and gross. Anyone familiar with Plympton's previous work knows these are the characteristics that make his films such outrageous, irreverent fun. When Dr. Frubar tries to kill astronaut Earl Jensen by draining all his fuel from his space ship so that he gets lost in space, Jensen's daughter Josie spends her life hoping for her father's return in order to exact revenge on Dr. Frubar. When Earl finally returns, he brings four mutant aliens with him that he specially devised to kill Dr. Frubar and foil his evil plans to take over the world through advertising. The loveable, though violent, aliens wreak havoc on earth with boisterously entertaining, gross-out effect. Plympton's minimalist style combines watercolor impressionism with crudely animated weirdness; he's got the mind of a juvenile delinquent, indulging his fantasies through animation that's unmistakably his own. If that means that storytelling takes a back seat to bizarre space oddities, who better than Plympton to go crazily over the top?
General: Mutant Aliens (Bill Plympton, 2001)
Format: AVI
Length: 701 MiB for 1 h 21 min 20 s 793 ms
Video: MPEG-4 Visual at 1 060 kb/s
Aspect: 608 x 336 (16:9) at 23.976 fps
Audio: at 131 kb/s
Infos: 2 channels, 48.0 kHz
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