The Tune

Super fun and silly with inventive animation and pretty good songs! Every scene also goes on 5 minutes longer than it needs to!

James (Schaffrillas)

This feels like a bunch of shorts loosely strung together with a paper thin story but many of those shorts have more creativity than most features so it’s hard to complain. Got me cackling, Plympton is a funny dude.

Joel Haver

the tunes really do slap...

KYK

English text below Der erste Spielfilm von Karrikaturist und Animationskünstler Bill Plympton, bekannt geworden durch seine auf MTV ausgestrahlten „Wiseman“- und „Enemies“-Spots, erzählt von einem Musiker / Komponisten auf der Suche nach dem perfekten Song und zündet dabei…

bruno_mattei

Obsessed with this movie’s sense of humor. Seeing a Hamburger and a French fry embrace is something special. As is that duel scene, if you know, you know!

HAL

My first Bill Plympton experience so I won't pretend to know how to contextualize or interpret it. All I can say is that his colored pencil squigglevision drawing style is entrancing, his manner of exaggerating reality through animation is wildly creative, he has this…

MichaelEternity

“Why am I watching this?” Because it’s based that’s why

William (SpaceTree Studios)

"The Tune" is a 1992 film directed by Bill Plympton. Simply put, this is an absurdist animation delight that I enjoyed every moment of even though I think that the pacing and weirdness of it all might throw some people off. The story on paper is quite simple, playing into…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

Bill Plympton's THE TUNE (1992), a film that is almost too pure in its emotions, that are directly real in its execution, rather than the sometimes schmaltzy efforts by Disney, is a “deceptively simple” animated film as Walter Chaw describes it. Stitching a few older shorts…

Jon Peters