Turner Classic Movies is working hard to attract the young crowd. I’ve blogged on this before and have expressed my skepticism. After what happened to AMC when they ventured into this, I didn’t know what to expect. TCM promises is not like that…
According to an article on Animation Magazine, TCM will be featuring a series of animated shorts titled “R.I.P,” in 2007. The series directed by Bruno Collet and produced by Vivement Lundi looks to be pretty funny. The series has no dialogue, but the animated characters, sound effects, and music speak loud and clear. The series is likened to Warner Bros.’ classic Road Runner cartoons. I guess we can say classic cartoon has gone contemporary.
R.I.P features a monster that painstakingly, but unsuccessfully tries to kill his roommate. The monster is frustrated and upset about his failure. The roommate comforts him and actually tells the monster what he is doing wrong.
It sounds more like Road Runner gone psycho and rooms with Forrest Gump. From the sound and looks of this, young people will like it. I saw one short and cracked up. Teens, young adults, and the rest of us will undoubtedly have a laugh with this series.
Megafilms.com a French company produced the series. They also produce online games and children’s videos. Click here to see a short clip from R.I.P. Watch out for the Hitchcock and King Kong’s cameo. Let me know what you think.
2 Responses to “TCM Turning To Animated Series”
It kicks ass. The is great animation. So tasty.
I have been an avid Turner Classic Movie buff for years because of its great collection, but now I find myself watching films late at night that I don’t even like just to catch one of these clips. The first one that I saw was the one with King Kong (“Gareaugorille”). At first I didn’t get it and was a bit creeped out by the whole thing. But then came “Faulty Connection” and I was hooked! Last night I had the pleasure of laughing myself crazy through “3Divemensional”. TCM gives no backstory or tags about the clips so I had to troll the internet to find more about these works and the creator. With very limited search criteria in hand, I managed to find this blog and a few others which then led me back to the TCM website – which doesn’t even reference the shorts at all on its homepage! I finally found the first 5 of the 13 clips through the Search option (thanks to learning Bruno Collet’s name here). But the final indignation with TCM came when I was unable to see them because they wouldn’t load properly. (Maybe because I use a Mac, but still….!) Now I have to stay tuned night after night to TCM to see the rest of the shorts since we have no way of knowing when they will be shown. I sincerely hope someone puts together a DVD compilation so that I can watch these innovative and hilarious short animations whenever I want and be able to share them with friends and family. I thank you for putting this clip on your blog. Bruno Collet has a new fan in me (and I don’t even like cartoons!) and, if these shorts were more readily available, he’d would surely be “the man”!!