Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sunshine Barry And The Disco Worms
Thomas Borch Nielsen

Worms and disco. This could either be genius or merely fish-bait. Unfortunately, fish-bait is about all this bland and forgettable flick is fit for.
Barry is a young earthworm dreaming above his station in life and finds his calling when he chances upon an old disco record. Cue the boogiewoogie soundtrack, glitter ball and audacious afros.
The rudimentary animation throws up all kinds of icky questions about worm anatomy such as why do they wear tops but not bottoms? Really, female worms have breasts?
Wait a minute, aren’t worms hermaphrodites? These are animated wrigglers even the fish won’t bite.
(ST)