This thing didn't need the [adult swim] watermark, kind of went without saying. I don't think I even understood the entire thing outside of the happy family being fake and the evil house being her real family, I imagine there's deeper meaning to things but I didn't catch it, at least not on a single viewing. But I 100% believe the person who made this had an incredibly bad trip while watching Moral Orel, or maybe even something off of the old Kablam show, or some kind of fever dream, and Adult Swim showed up and gave them a box of cash to recreate it.
The Meaning of Life - NR
I remember when I was first looking into watching It's Such A Beautiful Day I noticed there was a feature length version and a short version, and when this started playing at first I thought it was just the same movie but the short version. Had to look the name back up to make sure, nope, just made by the same guy. Liked it more than It's Such A Beautiful Day I guess? This guys style definitely works better in short form to me, but still not my cup of tea.
Munchausen - 6/10?
Not sure how to review short films, really, so here's more just a few thoughts I had during the movie.
Thought the main kid was Drake Bell at first, had to look it up.
Thought the doctor was Wilford Brimley at first, had to look it up.
Feel Bad and Feel Good are made by the same company, great business strategy. Maybe make Feel Bad slightly weaker, though, or you won't have very many repeat customers.
Does anyone think ring-in-the-food is a good way to propose? Maybe because I've taken bad care of my teeth through my life and I'm paranoid about biting something like that and needing an expensive trip to the dentist, but please leave the jewelry outside of the baked goods.
Also, just like in this film I was digging around in the yard to fill some holes my dog left, and I dug up an old action figure of mine as well. Except mine was missing a leg. There was a lot of broken bricks and stone around here when I was a kid so when my friends and I would play, action figures would not only fall off stuff and get shot or stabbed, they would have said bricks and stone dropped on them, which resulted in a lot of broken limbs. With a lot of the smaller GI Joe types you could get a screwdriver and open them up and put custom guys together piecemeal from the leftover parts of all the broken ones, so you could have a Joe with a blue torso, green legs and red arms, but that was a no-go with the larger ones. I dug this dude up, minus a leg and all accessories.
