A Town Called Panic. Animated plastic toys like Cowboy, Indian and Horse have problems too. Cowboy and Indian's plan to surprise Horse with a homemade birthday gift backfires when they destroy his house instead. Surreal adventures ensue as the trio travel to the centre of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe where pointy headed (and dishonest!) creatures live. Each speedy character is voiced - and animated - as if their very air contains both amphetamines and laughing gas. With panic a permanent feature of life in this papier mache town, will Horse and his girlfriend ever be alone?
A Town Called Panic is released in cinemas on 8th October 2010
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"Panic...like you've never experienced it before!"
So, what exactly is a town called Panic. A town where everybody panics? Definitely; delivering post? Panic! Forgot a birthday? Paaanic!! A million accidently ordered bricks seriously threatening to collapse through the roof on top of which they’re hidden? PANIC!!!
It’s definitely all about that state when you forget to think, forget to breath and perform some ridiculous act that’s blatantly going to make the situation even worse until, through a bizarre panicked sequence of events, it all turns out better than before. Hurrah!
This child’s plasticine toy-like animation (think Pirate and Cow from the Cravendale milk adverts) combines some well-know kiddy characters (Cowboy and Indian), adult humour and a huge amount of bizarreness to make for an amazingly different kind of state; a pleasurable panic. I don’t know about anyone else but I’m so hectic, and yep, panicked, in my day to day life that if I get to seek out some sort of entertainment I’m gonna go for the nice, the pretty, the soul-warming envelope of superficial loveliness…like flowers and pink things and even Disney. But this was so pleasurable, so fun and so unusual and unexpected that I might just broaden my criteria for soothing time spending to include obscure Belgian puppetoons!
Adults will undoubtedly find this a hugely welcome high, whilst kids will love the insanely fast pace and familiar faces doing very, very silly things. A must-see.