I Married a Strange Person! (1997)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1997
	Director: Bill Plympton (Space Mutants, The Tune)
	Actors (voices): Charis Michelsen, Tom Larson, Richard Spore
	Country: USA
	Genre: Animation
	Conditions of visioning: 04.06.2017, Cinemateca Capitólio Petrobras, FANTASPOA2017
Synopsis: In a newlywed couple the man develops the ability to change the shape of anything to its will. This causes trouble in his marriage and attracts a TV Network corporation.
Review: I had forgotten how crazy and creative was this animated movie by Bill Plympton, released after his first full-length feature The Tune (maybe my favorite of him) and before Mutant Aliens which made him known to me in 2001. The man was and still is the only person in the world to release 80-minute movies in which he has drawn everything. He wishes to remain independent and has turned down big contracts from Disney many times! I Married a Strange Person! looks a bit like a patchwork of scenes he has drawn as short stories before and sometimes forcibly included into the main storyline, but it is so well done and all of them are so funny that it doesn't disturb. Bill Plympton has this incredible talent for caricaturing a simple gesture, and he doesn't need many pencil strikes for that. In fact it is amazing that the audience manages to follow the story in spite of all those distractions. One of the reason I see it as a patchwork is that the quality of the drawing varies, for example the two singing scenes are much more crudely drawn than the others. Present at the FANTASPOA 2017 Festival to introduce his latest movie Revengeance, he told us that this was his craziest movie to date and I can't argue with that, it does go in all directions and mixes many genres and tons of sexual allusions. He also said that he was inspired by Japanese Anime in which anything could happen. Finally he clarified a bit the message behind the main story: the man changing things to his will is in fact an allegory to a cartoon animator that also has the God-like power to bring to life anything he can think about. So is this somehow an autobiographical movie?...
Rating: 8 /10