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American Pop [VHS]
by: American Pop

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
Animator-director-screenwriter Ralph Bakshi audaciously tries to chronicle the history of 20th-century American popular music, while also placing each period into historical and social context--all in 97 minutes! Its animated, episodic narrative follows four generations of Jewish-American musicians as each painfully seeks fame through changing musical eras. Starting at the turn of the century with a piano-playing immigrant in New York, the film moves swiftly, following his offspring through such movements as Gershwin-era pop, jazz, folk music, '60s psychedelia, and punk--and only pauses for elaborate, energized musical numbers designed to showcase the work of Benny Goodman, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Lou Reed, the Jefferson Airplane, and numerous others. However, these electric set pieces provide brief dynamism in a relatively bleak film filled with hard-luck protagonists suffering through clichéd drug addiction, death, and alienation. While the film's scope is admirably ambitious, and Bakshi's stylized use of rotoscoping (tracing animation from live action) makes for fluid and often eye-popping visuals, his treatment also feels heavy handed and cuts numerous corners. And, when Baskshi ends his epic by mocking punk, and celebrating the future of rock & roll through the music of Bob Seger, one wonders whether or not he a knowledgeable grasp of his topic at all. The DVD version presents the film in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. --Dave McCoy

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780800198770
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0800198778
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageHebrewOriginal LanguageRussianOriginal LanguageYiddishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: March 31, 1998
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 13, 1981

Customer Reviews

Brilliant and underrated mature animated movie!

In the early 1900's a struggling Jewish family from Russia called the Blinkskies have fled to America in search of hope, the young boy named Zalmie becomes quite talented in comedy and singing as he becomes an overnight success. Years later he becomes a father with a beautiful wife that leads to generations of musicials that follow in his footsteps from the 40's to the early 80's.

A very underrated, powerful and quite mature animated movie from Ralph Bakshi that has became a cult ... Read More

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