A collection of 19 animated shorts, mostly united by the desire to shock and/or disgust. The exceptions include two of the best entries. In Pixar's "For the Birds" (2000), a flock of chattering little birds gang up on the goofy larger bird and get their just desserts, while "Ghost of Stephen Foster" (1999) — to music by the Squirrel Nut Zippers — pays loving (and spooky) homage to the surreal B&W cartoons of
Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer. "Rejected" (2000) is a series of surreal line-animated vignettes, purportedly commissioned by corporate entities who promptly repudiated; the film's little squiggles inhabit a bizarre world of dead-pan non sequiturs and ja...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins