Review – Idiots and Angels

Though I really loved some of Bill Plympton’s earlier work, I really didn’t love this. It’s the dialogue-free story of a jerk who abuses everyone and everything around him until one morning he sprouts wings. His new appendages allow him to fly but prevent him from being an asshole. The picture has some of the animator’s trademark quirky humor, and the soundtrack sports a couple of Tom Waits songs. Beyond that, however, the picture rarely rises above lowbrow religious allegory, which scarcely justifies such a large dose of mean and depressing packed into 75 minutes. See if desperate