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Summary: 2nd Coming of Christ?
Review: I originally saw this at college while annebriated, then absolutely had to go back and watch it again sober. Then I had to buy the VHS, and now am eyeing the DVD. Rather than listening to dialogue, you must use your eyes to "hear" what is going on. Several friends went along with me to see this at college, and they were strangely satisfied when I described it as a portrayal of Tom Thumb as a pawn (or son of) God sent to quietly liberate a hopelessly degraded and lost humanity. In this world, science has imprisoned God, and Tom is there to liberate him. While the film was quiet (virtually no dialogue), my mind was alive with thoughts; this experience is truly a refreshing one.
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Summary: An Excellent Animated Masterpiece
Review: I thought this movie was one of the strangest and most ineresting films ever made. Dave Borthwick did an excellent job! The characters move in a odd and weird way, but it makes it unique. A very unrealistic movie, but very intresting. I think that every arthouse films fan should buy this.
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Summary: I literally could not take my eyes off of the screen
Review: I'll put it to you like this. The movie plays out an excellent example of how we fear the things we know nothing about when we are face to face with them. You really have to pay close attention to whats going on with the characters and overall story to get the main idea. I know it will be difficult the first time through ;) Its eerie, intriguing, sad, amazing all wrapped up in one very well executed work of art. I have no doubt that my fellow open-minded peers will find this as creative and fun as I did.
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Summary: Even if you like weirdo flicks, this one is BAD
Review: I've never written a review before, but I feel a moral obligation to refute all the 5-star ratings this POS has gotten. I give it two stars because it's interesting on a technical level and intriguing on a "What were these guys smoking?" level, but still unwatchable. This movie is truly for people with no taste--people who only like weird things for the sake of their being weird--people who quote philosophers they don't understand, or laugh at jokes they never even got. If Tron had no story whatsoever, I would give it a 4-star review based on technical merit alone, and that's why I give Tom Thumb two. The movie won several obscure awards. It opens up with beautiful claymation full of vivid colors, and a really cool Huxley reference. Babies in jars, a fly that perches on some machinery above a conveyer, then gets its head cut off in a gear and contaminates a jar. Things were looking really good. Then 75 seconds in we fade to the title, and things go downhill FAST. There are a couple real people slowed down to the jerky framerate of the claymation. There is no dialogue, just grunting. There is just no plot whatsoever. Tom is cast out and wanders around some unepxlained places, some sort of factory, wherever... grunting at the things he sees. It's downright painful. His mother dies. He wanders around some more. His father dies. More wandering. I made a big effort. I tried to give it a chance. I watched the first 40 minutes with a friend (we're both big digital animation fans), and that was hard work. This is the only movie I own that I could not sit through the whole thing. Take The Nightmare Before Christmas, remove the plot and all but one unsightly character, make it jerky enough to give you a headache, and you have Tom Thumb. There is a short film on the DVD called "The Saint Inspector," which is mostly just an obease clay man atop a pole being poked and prodded by a thing with a collapsing telescope for a head. That was at least entertaining, but it still managed to be slow and dull, while only four minutes long. The Tom Thumb feature is 70 excrutiating minutes. I've got nothing against weird or low-budget flicks. My friends look at my 100 DVD's and say, "Man, why do you have so much dumb stuff?" Maybe my idea of good offbeat movies is a little mainstream... Being John Malkovich, Dr. Strangelove, Run Lola Run, Taxi Driver, Tree's Lounge, every Kevin Smith / Tarantino film, staples of anime like Wicked City... I even get a kick out of lame stuff like Dolomite, Shock Corridor, Rocky Horror and Chesty Morgan flicks.
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Summary: one of the best
Review: this is a strange but funny movie. one of the best that uses stop motion technique
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