Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28919 in VHS
• Released on: 2000-01-01
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 73 minutes

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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

From The New Yorker
Bill Plympton's special brand of dementia-faces imploding, elongated tongues wrapping around heads, cigarettes being smoked from every orifice-has been a staple of animation festivals for the past ten years. Here he stretches out to feature length, and the results are mixed. The plot kicks off with a freak accident involving orgasmic birds, a satellite dish, and a guy named Grant, who suddenly gains the power to make his every weird thought take shape; in other words, he turns into an animator. A battle with a power-mad television mogul ensues, and it's not very interesting. But along the way, the Plympton trademarks-fine drawing, unexpected perspectives, inspired perversions bursting through a civilized veneer-are on gross, glorious view. There's a great sequence in which Grant and his wife are having sex, and their house and everything in it-the flower and the vase, the comb and the brush, the wing tip and the pump-get it on in sybaritic sympathy. -Ken Marks
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Oh, to see the world through Mr. Plympton's eyes.
I've been a fan of Mr. Plympton's work for a long, long time. When the animation collection films would tour through the city I reside in, it was always a pleasant surprise to view one of his shorts. He's a gifted illustrator, with an uncommon sense of humor, which just seems to coincide with mine. I leapt at the chance to buy this film, "I Married a Strange Person", as soon as I found out about it. I'm glad I did. This film's quite excessive references to sex and violence were, in my mind, spoofing various other works of animation, such as "Aeon Flux" or any number of popular Japanese "adult" Anime. The overall look of the movie is more polished than on his other full-length animated film, "The Tune" (which I also enjoyed). I held off on giving this 5 stars only because I am sure that most of the general movie-going public wouldn't go see this. But most of the movie going public is not enamored with animation. I loved it, though. If it makes me laugh, it's definitely worth my money; and I laughed quite a bit.

Extreme in every sense!
I was browsing through the under $10 DVD shelf at my local video store; there were the usual suspects of the shelf: troma flicks, low budget sci-fi's, and then something truely unique that cought my eye "I Married A Strange Person." I read the back of the case and decided to wing it and buy it without seeing it first.
Long story short: I absolutely loved it! Its excessive sex and violence are portrayed in a surreal and manner that draws you in. The humor is very off beat and crude, yet witty (similar to a Bukowski novel). One of the best aspects of the film is the goofy, but well written songs, with lyrics like "Would you still love me if I followed the fad, dressed like a shad, and blew your dad?," that reflect the film's tone. Another brilliant aspect of the film is the use of the greed towards "the lobe", to gain ultimate power, which is so reflective of the present day's developed nations.

As much as I loved the film, I would have to make a warning: This film is very extreme in its sex and violence, and over all is not intended to please the general movie going public. I would suggest this mainly to fans of Charles Bukowski and John Waters.

I Watched a Strange Video
Bill Plympton's most far-out, sexually strange, violent full-length animated feature yet. I own the unrated version, on DVD. Not for kids. Like Plympton's other outings, IMASP showcases his unique and jumpy pencil-sketch animation style. The mood, due to the unusual animation style, the abundance of silence (there is very little incidental music) and muted sound, as well as uneven pacing and surreal imagery, is unreal and almost meditative.
Several scenes are hilarious and mind bogglingly animated. It reminded me at times of The Wall, particularly when the car crashes into a wall from several different angles and perspectives, showing us the insides of the victim and his pain simultaneously. Plympton fans will love this film but will be suprised at how much darker it is than much of his other work.
The musical numbers in the film range from charming and infectious to barely audible. Even on DVD the sound quality is muffled, quiet and unclear. That's my main criticism of this release, and most of Plympton's other video releases- the sound engineering is sub-par, and does not do justice to the heartfelt and often funny music and dialogue.