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...Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" isa show inspired by junior-high cruelty, toilethumor and childish revenge fantasies. Cute birdsare smashed with hammers, the Roman god of fecesmakes an appearance, and David Koresh is pureed bya chainsaw. Only a select bunch have stomachssolid enough to sit through the whole show...
Furthermore, the over-ambitious dialogue places undigestible speeches in the mouths of our tiny tot protagonists. I'll buy a stunning transition from cute kid to devilspawn, but Macaulay Culkin saying "Don't fuck with me" is just a bit too much to swallow...
...bare bones of the film. They aren't terribly compelling, nor are they meant to be. It's just fun and interesting to watch these characters hang out. Some of them are very appealing, especially Slater (Rory Cochrane), the resident drug fiend, who is always slouching around in a cute, grungy way making funny little comments. Some aren't appealing, like O'Bannion (Ben Affleck), the typical sexist jock bully. There are the two nerdy guys, Mike (Adam Gold-berg) and Tony (Anthony Rapp), who spend the movie philosophizing and screwing up courage to engage in appropriate senior activities...
...quite right to close the book with this touch of cute domesticity. Let's remember who Katherine Power was and what she did. This was not a flower child caught up some wild afternoon in a robbery. She was found to have in her apartment three rifles, a carbine, a pistol, a shotgun and a huge store of ammunition. She is accused of having fire bombed a National Guard armory. She took part in a bank robbery in which a hero cop, father of nine, was shot dead. This is someone very hard who has now softened -- out of feelings...
...view, exactly five are women: O'Keeffe, Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer. You don't need to be a Guerrilla Girl to object to this. By what contorted standards of taste could Jonathan Borofsky's flatulent bits of pictorial free association, or Keith Haring's cute squiggle salads, be thought more original, let alone more beautiful, than the best work of, say, Susan Rothenberg, Nancy Graves, Elizabeth Murray or Vija Celmins? Where are those formidable senior talents, the two Louises, Bourgeois and Nevelson, without whom no account of the post-Surrealist vein in America...