A Goofy Scheme to Get the Girl
di Matt Zoller Seitz The New York Times
The Hungarian cartoon feature “The District!” is a last-minute shoo-in for the title of 2007’s most original animated film, no small triumph in a year that also included the releases of “Persepolis,”“Ratatouille,”“Beowulf” and “Paprika.”
The movie is a sexually explicit, scabrously funny portrait of multiethnic European urban culture, similar to Ralph Bakshi’s early-1970s adults-only animated movies “Fritz the Cat” and “Heavy Traffic,” but richer and more coherent than either of those. It’s set in contemporary Budapest, where a group of streetwise Hungarian teenagers use a time machine (invented by their school’s resident nerd genius) to travel back to the prehistoric era and bury mammoths beneath what will eventually become their city’s streets. [...]
di Matt Zoller Seitz, articolo completo (2160 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times
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