Sun, May 18, 2025
It’s delightful to see people taking advantage of breakthroughs in digital filmmaking in order to experiment with creative concepts that might’ve been beyond their reach even a decade ago. The shoestring financing shows a bit, as the separate acts don’t gel as smoothly as they could’ve—you could make three minutes’ worth of tiny cuts to get the first third humming as quickly as the rest. Still, the filmmakers establish a zany world and then pay it off remarkably well, with many inventive gags and escalations.
