Amazon.com video review:
Because two copulating birds bash into his satellite dish, the blandly
handsome Grant develops godlike powers. When he and his new bride Kerry
have sex, the entire house joins in, from the soap dish to the electric
sockets. Grant manipulates her breasts to form balloon animals; he changes
her into a blonde, then a nun, then the Statue of Liberty. Basically, he's
become an animator like his creator Bill Plympton, able to make the world
reflect his every id-driven whim. Is it any wonder that Kerry begins to
question if Grant is still the same straight-up guy she married? Plympton's new
animated movie, I Married a Strange Person!, opens
with a quote from Picasso: "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste
is the enemy of creativity." Plympton has taken this perhaps a little too
much to heart, but with a good dose of sprightly charm. Plympton's drawing
style vibrates, shimmies, and pops with boyish cheer. The movie is
regularly punctuated with breezy songs that you'd imagine sound great on
a ukulele, sung by some guy in a straw boater. Over-the-top sex and
violence and crazed excursions into the origin of belly-button lint
combine to produce a weird, sparkling movie. I Married a Strange
Person! is clearly the pure product of Plympton's imagination, without
any meddling from studio executives. --Bret Fetzer
