I Married a Strange Person! (1998)

What a waste of my time!!!

That was an excellent one.

Pretty Good

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

After newlywed businessman Grant Boyer is electrocuted by his satelite dish, he develops a strange lump on the back of his neck that gives him the power to bring his crazy thoughts and fantasies into reality. Of course, since this is a Plympton film, you can safely assume that this is merely an excuse to load the movie with lots of blood, sex, talking animals, bulging eyeballs, and more detached limbs than you can count. While extremely imaginative, well-animated, and generally fun to watch, the film runs its course within the first half-hour or so. Plympton is an amazing artist, but his art is best viewed in short-film form.

I am a big fan of Plympton, and I was excited when this film was released. Perhaps that's why I felt so let down. I can only imagine that B.P. was sick of critics saying his `The Tune' was too corny. But while that film was creative and interesting, this movie is full of dirty jokes that just aren't funny. A soldier performs oral sex on another man's shoe, two tanks get it on, a woman's body is used to make balloon animals. the list goes on and on. The dialogue is patchy at best: `Have YOU ever tried to stop two tanks from having sex?' And the songs are annoying and completely unnecessary. The film pretends to be shocking but is really very boring. The timing is horrible- there is a long pause before every incident, then `screaming' cells are cycled for a few seconds. Afterwards, the story can continue. The film isn't even an hour and a half long, but I checked my watch many times throughout. It isn't downright horrible- there are a few genuine rib ticklers in here. But mostly, based on what B.P. has done before, it was a major disappointment.

I've always found Plympton's animations intriguing (and at times a bit disgusting, but I mean that in the nicest possible way). I agree with other reviewers on this page that Plympton's style may not be too well-suited for a full-length movie, as I was quite bored at regular intervals. However, if you're into his style and sense of humour (which means that you don't mind gratuitous violence and sex scenes) you should get a kick out of this one. I found myself laughing out loud a couple of times (for instance, at the sex/balloon animals scene), and any movie that makes you do that deserves a pat on the back :).

Yes, there are a few dull parts. I will admit that. However, there are also parts that will make you wish you had gone to the bathroom a few minutes ago, before you started laughing so hard that your bladder's about to burst. And then you start thinking about you bladder bursting. And just what it would look like. And you laugh harder. Then you want to go home and check what's really in the back of those wall sockets...Good movie. Not the greatest in the world, but very good.Jason