Product Details

• Actors: Charis Michelsen, Tom Larson, Richard Spore, Chris Cooke, Ruth Ray
• Directors: Bill Plympton
• Writers: Bill Plympton, P.C. Vey
• Producers: John Holderried, John Donnelly, Bill Plympton
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2000
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004STJC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #257,124 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Because two copulating birds bash into his satellite dish, the blandly handsome Grant develops godlike powers. When he and his new bride Kerry have sex, the entire house joins in, from the soap dish to the electric sockets. Grant manipulates her breasts to form balloon animals; he changes her into a blonde, then a nun, then the Statue of Liberty. Basically, he's become an animator like his creator Bill Plympton, able to make the world reflect his every id-driven whim. Is it any wonder that Kerry begins to question if Grant is still the same straight-up guy she married? Plympton's new animated movie, I Married a Strange Person!, opens with a quote from Picasso: "Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativity." Plympton has taken this perhaps a little too much to heart, but with a good dose of sprightly charm. Plympton's drawing style vibrates, shimmies, and pops with boyish cheer. The movie is regularly punctuated with breezy songs that you'd imagine sound great on a ukulele, sung by some guy in a straw boater. Over-the-top sex and violence and crazed excursions into the origin of belly-button lint combine to produce a weird, sparkling movie. I Married a Strange Person! is clearly the pure product of Plympton's imagination, without any meddling from studio executives. --Bret Fetzer

From The New Yorker

Bill Plympton's special brand of dementia-faces imploding, elongated tongues wrapping around heads, cigarettes being smoked from every orifice-has been a staple of animation festivals for the past ten years. Here he stretches out to feature length, and the results are mixed. The plot kicks off with a freak accident involving orgasmic birds, a satellite dish, and a guy named Grant, who suddenly gains the power to make his every weird thought take shape; in other words, he turns into an animator. A battle with a power-mad television mogul ensues, and it's not very interesting. But along the way, the Plympton trademarks-fine drawing, unexpected perspectives, inspired perversions bursting through a civilized veneer-are on gross, glorious view. There's a great sequence in which Grant and his wife are having sex, and their house and everything in it-the flower and the vase, the comb and the brush, the wing tip and the pump-get it on in sybaritic sympathy. -Ken Marks
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Oh, to see the world through Mr. Plympton's eyes., September 2, 2000

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Richard Dashnau "rickubis" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Married a Strange Person (DVD)

I've been a fan of Mr. Plympton's work for a long, long time. When the animation collection films would tour through the city I reside in, it was always a pleasant surprise to view one of his shorts. He's a gifted illustrator, with an uncommon sense of humor, which just seems to coincide with mine. I leapt at the chance to buy this film, "I Married a Strange Person", as soon as I found out about it. I'm glad I did. This film's quite excessive references to sex and violence were, in my mind, spoofing various other works of animation, such as "Aeon Flux" or any number of popular Japanese "adult" Anime. The overall look of the movie is more polished than on his other full-length animated film, "The Tune" (which I also enjoyed). I held off on giving this 5 stars only because I am sure that most of the general movie-going public wouldn't go see this. But most of the movie going public is not enamored with animation. I loved it, though. If it makes me laugh, it's definitely worth my money; and I laughed quite a bit.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING!!, May 31, 2001

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Stevie Wadley (Magna, Utah United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Married a Strange Person (DVD)

This film is not meant for the general population. If you are easily offended, put it down and slowly walk away. Otherwise, prepare to laugh your head off. Having been a fan of Bill Plympton's for some time, I purchased this film without even seeing it first. I definitely got my money's worth. I was laughing so hard I thought I was going to puke. It is an excellant piece of work.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extreme in every sense!, March 29, 2002

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Hunter Shaw (Aspen, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Married a Strange Person (DVD)

I was browsing through the under $10 DVD shelf at my local video store; there were the usual suspects of the shelf: troma flicks, low budget sci-fi's, and then something truely unique that cought my eye "I Married A Strange Person." I read the back of the case and decided to wing it and buy it without seeing it first.
Long story short: I absolutely loved it! Its excessive sex and violence are portrayed in a surreal and manner that draws you in. The humor is very off beat and crude, yet witty (similar to a Bukowski novel). One of the best aspects of the film is the goofy, but well written songs, with lyrics like "Would you still love me if I followed the fad, dressed like a shad, and blew your dad?," that reflect the film's tone. Another brilliant aspect of the film is the use of the greed towards "the lobe", to gain ultimate power, which is so reflective of the present day's developed nations.

As much as I loved the film, I would have to make a warning: This film is very extreme in its sex and violence, and over all is not intended to please the general movie going public. I would suggest this mainly to fans of Charles Bukowski and John Waters.