Hair High

Animator Bill Plympton's seventh feature is a must-see for fans of his often witty, always scabrous, hand-drawn work. But this musical bogey tale takes his trademark style — rooted in jittery, broadly drawn images, grotesque transformations and abrupt shifts of perception — and combines it with an alienatingly heavy dose of grossness for its own sake. A bizarre mix of 1950s high-school melodrama, Twilight Zone-style spook tale, UFOs and body horror, it begins with a squabbling prom couple stopping into an old-fashioned diner, where JoJo the counterman (Keith Carradine) tells them a tale from long ago, in the 1950s. Nerdy new kid Spud (Eric Gilliland)...