So with the major caveat that your mileage may very much vary here, I found The Motion Picture's script to be decidedly light on laughs. But what constitutes what is or isn't funny is as subjective as it gets and varies from person to person. If it's funny, who cares? South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut turned its own potty-mouth into an artform (even making it into part of the story). Which isn't to say that is always a bad thing.
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From Sausage Party to Netflix's own Paradise PD, recent animation history is full of works that over-rely on crude and "edgy" humour, cussing and references to bodily functions. He assembles a ragtag crew including Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Geronimo and (a gender-swapped) Thomas Edison.Īmerican adult animation frequently falls into the habit of underlining their 'adult' nature in the most juvenile of ways. The film recasts George Washington as a lantern-jawed, barrel-chested action hero (voiced by Channing Tatum, who was also a producer on the film), determined to overthrow British rule to avenge his best friend Abe Lincoln ( Will Forte) who was slain by Benedict Arnold (a delightfully hammy turn by Andy Samberg). The film was released exclusively on Netflix on June 30, 2021. Floyd County Productions, the company started by Thompson and his creative partner, Archer creator Adam Reed, produced the animation. The film is directed by Matt Thompson, making his feature debut following an illustrious career directing countless episodes of Archer, Frisky Dingo and Sealab 2021 and written by Dave Callaham (writer of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the upcoming Into The Spiderverse sequel). In fact, it was the first Netflix Original animated feature to be announced full stop, although it has been beaten to the punch by a couple of family features.
The result of this collaboration is America The Motion Picture. The prospect of them teaming up with the studio behind adult animation hit Archer and bringing the R-rated anarchy of their hilarious 21-Jump Street movies into animation sounded pretty exciting. They've been involved in some of the best animated films of the last decade, including The LEGO Movie, Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verseand most recently The Mitchells Vs The Machines. Across both animation and live-action, whether as writers, directors or producers they have had a magic touch. Over the past decade or so Phil Lord and Chris Miller have barely put a foot wrong.
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