The Old Man Movie: Lactopalypse! review – brilliantly weird Estonian stop-motion – The Guardian
The solely becoming comparability for this deranged Estonian stop-motion animation is that if Shaun the Sheep had someway been contaminated with a terminal case of BSE. The human characters are ugly lumpen golems, all the higher to counsel rural backwardness; milk enjoys the identical almost-ontological standing right here as Malkovichness in Being John Malkovich; the movie has an unhealthy anal fixation that at one level expresses itself in a large bear, irritated by a heavy-metal guitarist in his colon, who farts out a whole forestful of animals. In brief, it’s sensible.
Metropolis brats Priidik (voiced by co-director Mikk Mägi), Aino (co-director Oskar Lehemaa) and Mart (Mägi) are despatched to stick with their grandfather (Mägi), who to their scorn is at all times doing “barn issues”. The previous fella prides himself on his method with an udder; he begins to rid them of their city prissiness with just a few squirts of yoghurty lactate. However when his prize cow escapes, one-time milking champion Previous Milker (Jan Uuspõld) turns as much as alert them of the hazard: relieve that udder inside 24 hours, or threat unleashing “lactopalypse”.
Mägi and Lehemaa’s movie, a continuation of an online sequence, boils down in the long run to a standard action-movie showdown – however in each different respect it’s a deeply bizarre smackdown of ribald cynicism and grotesquerie. There’s an interlude, when the household stumbles on a hippy pageant within the woods, when satire briefly descends: concerning the gulf between nature-loving outsiders and actual countryfolk. However this nearly appears wise in comparison with the remainder, from granpops waking up on his personal funeral pyre, to the ursine rectum extravaganza, to them being requested to pleasure an historic tree spirit by driving their tractor out and in of its stump.
With out fairly matching the millimetric planning of Aardman’s efforts, it has simply as a lot vitality and double the WTF quotient. Previous Milker is a very horrible creation, remodeled by his personal brush with lactopalypse right into a form of milk-sweating lich, hellbent on decapitating the poor moo with a chainsaw. It provides as much as pure superb nonsense, however Mägi and Lehemaa ought to in all probability lay off the total fats for some time.
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