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3 June 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

2008 is an exceptionally good year for The Animation Show, the traveling short-features tourney now curated solely by King Of The Hill/Beavis And Butt-head mastermind Mike Judge. The only problem is that it makes its 2007 program, now on DVD as The Animation Show Volume 3, look weak by comparison. The currently touring Animation Show 4 features several advanced works by animators still working out their kinks as of Volume 3. The new show also focuses on short, snappy, clever pieces; the latest DVD, by contrast, is more about longer works that showcase animation's incredible range, but disappoint in terms of coherent story. Volume 3 does have some distinct winners: Run Wrake's "Rabbit" is a terrifically creepy morality tale about two greedy children and a magical idol, told in a style reminiscent of an old Fun With Dick And Jane book. Bill Plympton contributes two shorts, but his eerie...

Tasha Robinson

1 article from 2008