American Pop R
All those years, all those dreams, all those sons... one of them is going to be a star.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Frank DeKova & Roz Kelly | |
Performer: | Ben Frommer, Lisa Jane Persky & Richard Moll | |
Directed by | Ralph Bakshi | |
Produced by | Ralph Bakshi & Martin Ransohoff | |
Voice: | Richard Moll, Roz Kelly, Lisa Jane Persky, Frank DeKova, Ben Frommer & Vincent Schiavelli |
Entertainment Reviews:
...This near-unique movie compels repeat viewings...
USA Today
Rating: 62/100 --
This is a film that grandly overreaches, attempting to condense a century's worth of triumph and tragedy into ninety minutes. To a surprising degree it succeeds.
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MovieMartyr.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Has a wonderful soundtrack, but it fails to provide an actual story unless you look hard...
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Cinema Crazed
Although the plot, like the music itself, can be somewhat too strident, the animation is remarkably successful in delineating the sad geography of the human body and the massive backgrounds of American cities.
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The Spectator
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Although cartoonish in the most pejorative sense, American Pop knows its musical lore. This film has little bits of tragedy that just may break your heart.
Low IQ Canadian
Rating: 3/5 --
Equal parts a confused mess and an inspired piece of musical animation.
eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 2/5 --
If you're into Bakshi, it might be okay. I'm not. It isn't.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
This sweeping epic of Americana follows four generations of angry young men and their music via the animation of director Ralph Bakshi. As the story begins, Russian immigrant song-and-dance man Louis fathers Benny, a jazz pianist who gets killed in WWII but not before fathering Tony, a sullen Brooklyn youth who runs off to San Francisco to write lyrics for a Jefferson Airplane-style acid rock band. Crippled by low self-esteem, Tony blows his chance at the big time and winds up a New York junkie in the 1970s, along with his illegitimate son, who later becomes a cocaine-dealing cartoon composite of Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Idol. Featuring music by everyone from Scott Joplin to Jimi Hendrix to Pat Benatar, this rambling feature is a powerfully moving experience thanks to its sheer bravado and endless supply of great music. Bakshi integrates his animation style of rotoscoping (tracing the animation from live film) with historical photos and film footage to tell the story of American popular music in a unique way that sets this ambitious picture into a class all its own.
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- UPC: 014381684629
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