FREAK FILMS: I MARRIED A STRANGE PERSON!

When a pair of fucking birds (that’s a verb, not an adjective) wreck Grant Boyer’s satellite dish, which in turn zaps and mutates a lobe growing from the imagination portion of his brain, it sets the stage for madcap laughs, beguiling musical numbers, raucous violence and weird sex. It’s Bill Plympton’s second full-length animated film, I Married A Strange Person. Keri, Grant’s brand spanking new wife, has noticed something strange about Grant in recent days. For instance, when she asks for one of his red hot kisses, his lips catch fire. When calling her mother to discuss the gargantuan size of his penis, the phone inexplicably turns into a rib cage. When they have sex, she turns into the Statue of Liberty and Grant makes balloon animals with her breasts. And Keri’s not the only person who notices. In fact, after their neighbor gets assaulted by the very lawn he’s mowing, he puts a call into the Jackie Jason Show to sign him up as a guest. Once Grant makes a giant head burst from the floorboards on national television, everybody, including TV mogul Larson P. Giles, notices just how strange Grant has become. And everyone wants to use his powers for their own evil schemes. The standout difference between Plympton’s first feature, The Tune, and Strange Person, aside from the cohesion that The Tune lacked, is the addition of gallons of guts and tits. Although it’s not widely discussed in film classes from UT to NYU, everybody knows that guts and tits improve the entertainment value of a film tenfold. And in the hands of Plympton, having a Smile Corp., soldier surfing on a comedian’s carcass while firing live ammo, or giant breasts that grow so big they burst from Grant’s windows and flop into the front yard makes it more of an art form.