Bill Plympton’s independent animated feature film Hair High is ending its Oscar-qualifying run today, Thursday, April 19 at Laemmle’s Sunset in West Hollywood so L.A. residents have only one day left to catch the critics favorite! Hair High received a flawless 100% score of positive reviews from the Cream of the Crop at Rotten Tomatoes; some fresh quotes from the L.A. press follow:
“Bill Plympton relishes the grotesque…it’s “Carrie” as co-directed by Tim
Burton and David Lynch…seeded with a surprising amount of sex and gestated in
increasing absurdity until emerging in full-boned, surreal horror. Hit frappe
on the blender and the toxic fumes cause the hallucinations Plympton uses to
tell his story. This smorgasbord of the bizarre…it’s not like anything else
out right now.”
Michael Ordoña, L.A. TIMES

“Famed animator Bill Plympton’s legendary skewed aesthetic and worldview are in
top form here, bringing life to a script that plays like “Carrie” on a wicked
acid trip….It’s grossout fare of the highest caliber.”
Ernist Hardy, LA WEEKLY

“”Hair High” is dazzlingly silly, often funny, and never dull…as an
ingeniously raunchy, double-entendre filled cartoon for adults, it gets more
than just a passing grade.”
Gary Goldstein, REEL.COM

“Plympton’s new feature “Hair High” is a genre-busting 1950s throwback about
love, murder, zombies and pompadours…(a) goofball gothic high-school epic of
big hair, locker politics and strange sports events.”
Taylor Jessen, ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE

“Like the sort of dream that comes from eating tainted fish while watching
“Dementia 13”.”
Andy Klein, LA CITY BEAT

“Offering animation free of the corporate governance that plagues much of
today’s popular cartoons, Plympton and his new film “Hair High” are familiar yet
still very refreshing.”
Aaron H. Bynum, ANIMATION INSIDER

And some earlier press quotes:

“Cartoonist Bill Plympton’s latest is an amusing send-up of late ’50s/early ’60s
high school melodramas and teen-tragedy pop hits. Plympton has fun exaggerating
the period’s social and stylistic norms to an atomic degree…it’s a good
setting for his swacked sexual/physical humor to run rampant.”
Dennis Harvey, VARIETY

“Gleefully outrageous…the lunacy and incongruity rarely let up. Mr. Plympton
nicely walks the border between ridiculously gross and outright offensive.”
Neil Genzlinger, NEW YORK TIMES

“Plympton has an eye for the grotesque and a taste for gross-out humor – in one
scene a chain-smoking biology teacher literally pukes his guts out…Hair High
nails the high-school experience.”
Joshua Land, VILLAGE VOICE

“Mr. Plympton’s spectacular drawings delight in twisting the human body inside
out, and his hand-drawn lines jitter and shake as if they’re wired on caffeine.”
Grady Hendrix, NEW YORK SUN

“Boasting a veritable cult cast (Matt Groening, Beverly D’Angelo, two
Carradines), adolescent, sex-crazed humor and a genuine sweetness underneath its
gruesome veneer, the film is a must for Plympton fans.”
Raven Snook, TIME OUT NEW YORK

“In a giddy, gleeful throwback to the world before artists had to be computer
wizards, Plympton creates his oddball animation with pen and ink. His
characters have the look of hip advertising art come to life…and Plympton’s
imagination keeps things psychedelically off-center…for grown-up fans of
eye-catching animation.”
Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star Ledger

“”Hair High” is a spoof, a satire and a farce. It’s a love story, it’s a
tragedy, it’s horror, it’s comedy and it’s modern art of the silliest
order…it’s only about 35% weirder that any other sort of animation out there.
Hair High represents a modern artist playing at the top of his game.”
Scott Weinberg, eFILMCRITIC.com

“The funniest feature to date from animator Bill Plympton, who indulges his
fascination with the body’s slurpy elasticity that could get him his widest
audience yet. The star-crossed love of teen helmet-head Cherri and new kid Spud
starts as “Rebel Without a Cause” and ends as “Carrie”, with time out for wildly
eruptive gross-out gags.”
Jim Ridley, NASHVILLE SCENE

“Complete rampant insanity from the mind of a mad genius. “Hair High” is kinda
like “Grease” mixed with “Return of the Living Dead.” Just remember all of the
anxieties you had in high school and apply them to Plympton’s twisted gray
matter. You have “Hair High.””
Eric Campos, FILM THREAT

“”Hair High” is like taking drugs through the optic nerve.”
Chris Gore, FILM THREAT