Internet: Re-animated monsters

Published on Thursday 30 April 2009 14:46

CARTOON CAPERS

THIS is a "does what it says on the tin" site. Let's face it, there is an almost endless supply of shorts and animations that could be shown here: sappy, saccharine American stuff; terrible Japanese anime or those damn 1960s Tom and Jerrys that were as funny as rat poison. They also do a nice line in terrifying cartoons that should never have been shown to children, as Mark Twain and an Angel Named Satan proves (pictured). Oh, and behold the abomination that is Mork and Mindy: the cartoon

2576">HOW DO YOU LIKE THIS FOR TORTURE, JACK?

IF EVER there was a way of undermining what is – in this column's opinion – an incredibly self-important and overrated show, then giving 24 a Japanese theme tune is it. Apparently, Robert Carlyle appears in this season, fact fans. However, I very much doubt he'd appreciate the alleged lyrics for the Jack Bauer song as translated beneath the clip. Altogether now: "I'm Jack Bauer, I'm a cry baby, my phone bill is crazy..."

SHORT CUTS

GREAT site full of creative shorts by film students and cutting-edge auteurs, with lots of unusual animation, which is always good. Particularly fantastic is the amazing Spike Jonze collaboration with U.N.K.L.E, which shows the lengths some local authorities will go to enforce "no skateboarding" by-laws.

C0mEDE_w1xo">WEEDY CASE FOR LEGALISATION

TO FINISH this week, possibly the most unrepresentative advert for legalising pot ever. By all accounts, we are meant to believe that the average marijuana user is a sober-suited professional who uses the 'erb as either medication or as a mild relaxant, but can still walk in and wow their boss on a daily basis. Not shown are the giggling, munchy-snaffling student or red-eyed hoodie, who stares at late night telly through a blue fug and thinks spraying hemp leaves on walls is valid social commentary.