Meet the Raisins! (1988)
Meet the Raisins! spoofs musical documentaries with its use of anthropomorphic food characters. Through its historical perspective, the special also provided an opportunity to elaborate on the personalities and introduce names of the simple yet popular characters. It follows the California Raisins' humble beginnings, rise to musical success, fall from stardom, and eventual comeback. This includes "home movie" clips, scenes of the group's early days as the Vine-Yls, concert footage, and interviews with the people behind the success of the California Raisins including manager Rudy Begaman. The group is also shown performing various hit songs
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One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Blistering performances.
There is no movie like Meet the Raisins. It's funny and delightful. It premise is quite simple; a mockumentary on a famous music group. But, I think it's one of the funniest ones I've ever seen. The claymation world is really amazing and it stands up beautifully to today's standards. In fact, it's quite amazing just how great it looks. Will Vinton was a true visionary. More importantly the jokes are fresh and the plot is fun. But, what impresses me the most is that the musical numbers are amazing and rival original versions of the songs sang. Don't miss this.I can't believe a proper definitive release of this hasn't happened. This film has some of the greatest animation ever done.
In a world populated by anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables, four Raisins from California on how they were ordinary dried grapes would soon become famous singing stars.A hilarious and creative Clay animated mockumentary from Will Vinton Studios! i love how they use the popular commercial characters of the time known as the 80's and turned the characters into a funny hour long TV Special. The Clay Animation is well done including the soundtrack using songs of the 50's and 60's including early 70's including "Cool Jerk".I highly recommend watching this overlooked cult fave!
The songs and the "history" of the "California Raisins" are shown in this half-hour video....and it is very funny and entertaining. The California Raisins are claymation characters that it made it big with commercials on television.This "documentary" is the "story" of the animated group - some fake history of these likable raisin characters. The "history" shows how the group was formed and played '60s and '70s R&B songs, then becoming famous, as mentioned with a few television commercials in the 1980s.What's great about this are two things: the music and the humor. It takes a number of viewings to catch most of the funny visuals and hear all the puns in this short tape. It's presented more as a regular TV program would be, with commercials interrupting it, news bulletins, promotions, etc. It's very clever material.I remember all these old rock 'n roll classics, and they sound even better with these "guys" doing it! This is good stuff, and I wish they could put it out, with all the other TV commercials, too, on DVD.
I love this Documentary film!!!! I remember watching it when it first aired in the Fall of 1988.It even spinned-off a mildly-popular, short-live cartoon show called: "The California Raisins [1989-90]," which continued the adventures of "Stretch, Red, A.C., and the bassist.The Documentary "Meet the Raisins" also spun-off a Sequel of sorts, titled: RAISINS SOLD-OUT: The California Raisins II [1990]."The sequel honestly wasn't as good as the original ....sequels hardly always are .... but it does share some goods parts here and there.