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Monday, November 25, 2013

Twice Upon a Time (1983)

An animated fantasy directed by John Korty and Charles Swenson.
A pair of unlikely heroes get caught up in an adventure involving time manipulation and dreams while they're taking out the garbage. First they get tricked into stealing a spring from a clock that controls all time. While time is stopped, the makers of good dreams are kidnapped and the vultures that bring bad dreams place nightmare bombs in the real world. The villain constructs a button to detonate these bombs and sends out his best vulture to put the spring back into the clock so that he can detonate the nightmare bombs once time starts again.
The animation style was definitely unique, apparently involving pieces of colored plastic that were moved on a light table as well as (seemingly) standard cartoon style and live action. The plot and characters were pretty standard, but not bad. I really liked the humor that was used because it was so straight forward and lightly peppered with foul language. I'm rating this awesome.
I know I've been reviewing a few good movies recently, but I promise to add some horrible shite soon. All this good reviewing is building up a windup punch for the next bad one.