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Surprise Cinema
Surprise Cinema
6.3
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131 Ratings

SURPRISE CINEMA

Directed by Bill Plympton
United States, 1999
Animation, Short

Synopsis

A mischievious man plays an assortment of extreme practical jokes on unsuspecting victims – like replacing one man’s razor with a chainsaw.

Synopsis

A mischievious man plays an assortment of extreme practical jokes on unsuspecting victims – like replacing one man’s razor with a chainsaw.

Our take

A late-’90s animated short from American indie animator Bill Plympton, Surprise Cinema introduces a series of impossible situations and lets us watch them play out. Always irreverent, playful, witty, and off-the-cuff, this is exactly the kind of skilled silliness we expect from Plympton.