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Last summer, Squaresoft released the first Final Fantasy movie, whose computer-animated heroine begged the question: “Is it wrong to have a crush on a cartoon?” But players of Final Fantasy video games have been caring about pixels ever since the series debuted in 1987. These are 60-hour games with tangled epic storylines, each set in a completely different visual universe which usually combines magic and technology, spells and broadswords with the semi-salvaged husks of tarnished chrome machinery. Your character is always a thief or a disillusioned soldier, caught between well-meaning...
There's also a sense of history that rarely appears in American comix. Jacek Fras mixes collage with silly cartoon characters in a story that takes place during the Polish resistance against the Nazis. Jurcan & Cvek's "Condemned Ideas" examines the failure of ideologies from Fascism to Communism to Capitalism. But the most unifying trait turns out to be a kind of dark, absurdist sensibility. In Goran Feniks' "A Weird Story," a man takes care of some paperwork while plummeting to his death from an airplane explosion. There's ample amounts of satire and schadenfruede, but little humor...
...three prehistoric buddies? This freezin' threesome--a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), a saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) and a sloth (John Leguizamo)--survives plot challenges of no particular ingenuity. The film breaks anthropological ground by revealing that humans lived in the Ice Age, but its contribution to cartoon history is more modest. It yearns for Pixar-style wit without quite earning...
...fight, OK, he'll bounce, circle, jab and jabber like a boxer in a Garden prelim. Out on 52nd Street with J.J., he pleads, "Stop beating me on the head, let me make a living" - and on the second phrase Curtis rubs his thumbs against his forefingers like a cartoon usurer and glances imploringly to heaven. Sidney: such a thespian he is. For Curtis, the performance may not have been career-making, but it was actor-making. It expanded and forever defined what we mean by "Tony Curtis": the slick shtarker, oily and irresistible...
...band members. Yet in the end, the band reprised both “Clint Eastwood” and “Tomorrow Comes Today,” with slightly different video footage, for their encore, before Hewlett sent us on our way with a final bit of cartoon-video nonsense...