MUTANT ALIENS (2001)
Label: Deaf Crocodile
Region Code: A
Rating: Unrated
Duration: 81 Minutes 22 Seconds
Audio: English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Stereo with Optional English Subtitles
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1:66:1)
Director: Bill Plympton
Cast: Dan McComas, Francine Lobis, Matthew Brown
Legendary animator Bill Plympton's lovably twisted tribute to alien invasion films ala THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH and MARS ATTACKS! features an American astronaut named Earl Jensen (voiced by Dan McComas) who's intentionally stranded in space by his evil boss, Dr. Frubar (voiced by George Casden). Twenty years later, his now-grown daughter Josie (voiced by Francine Lobis) is an astronomer with some serious lust for her hunky boyfriend (their hanky panky is both R-rated and hilarious, with his phallus in turns transforming into a charging rhino, steam train and exploding volcano). Their lovemaking and Dr. Frubar's evil plans are both interrupted by the unexpected return of her missing father, astronaut Earl - who reveals he apparently survived in space for the past two decades on a planet peopled (if that's the right word) by aliens who resemble human body parts (tongues, fingers, eyeballs and unidentified pink blobs). As brilliantly weird as ever for Plympton, MUTANT ALIENS is also surprisingly sexy: astronaut Earl's liaison with the fleshy pink alien blob queen shows that even in outer space, love knows no boundaries. Plympton also shares with David Lynch a kind of perverse wholesomeness in his fascination with nostalgic 1950s Americana undercut by a gleefully wicked sense of the bizarre and surreal.
Audio/Video: REVIEW COMING SOON!
Special Features:
- FIrst-ever U.S. Blu-ray release
- Two classic Plympton shorts: “Hot Dog” (2008, 5:44) and “The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger” (2010, 6:05)
- New video interview with Bill Plympton about the making of MUTANT ALIENS, moderated by Dennis Bartok of Deaf Crocodile. (32:16)
- New commentary track by animation producer and podcaster Adam Rackoff, podcaster and film critic James Hancock and longtime Plympton collaborator John Holderried of Plymptoons Studio.
- The Plympton Diaries (90:09)
- Blu-ray authoring by David Mackenzie of Fidelity In Motion.
Sales Points
Annecy Grand Prix Award Winner: BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
For fans of MARS ATTACKS! and classic 1950s sci-fi like 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH and EARTH VS. FLYING SAUCERS
From Oscar Nominated Animator, Bill Plympton (PLYMPTOONS, THE TUNE, and I MARRIED A STRANGE PERSON!)
Screenshots from the Deaf Crocodile Blu-ray:
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