User Reviews

This is one of the stranger cartoons I've seen in a very long time. As far as the style and animation goes, this looks more like an underground animation made back in the 1970s and is truly strange. In many ways it reminds me also of the wonderful (in other words "soon canceled") Might Mouse series from the 1980s. Weird stuff indeed.

The film has a plot but frankly it just seems not terribly important. A bizarre looking moron decides to take his pet chicken to the Admiral Chicken plant down the road to trade it in for a pot pie. While the idea for this came from a TV commercial, they did NOT say to take the chickens to the plant and the hapless chicken is accidentally injected with bizarre chemicals and ultimately becomes a floating live chicken head who falls in love with a lobster. See, I told you the plot wasn't terribly important!!! As for the cartoon, there are lots of cool jokes (such as when Admiral Chicken makes fun of Ronald MacDonald or when you briefly see Sebastian from LITTLE MERMAID). I really liked its anarchistic style but I could see "normal" people just shaking their heads in confusion as the bizarreness of it all. See it for yourself. Even if you don't like it, you're bound to at least admit it's different!!

Boorish and ill-tempered Weasel the human trades in his pet chicken Red the rooster for a free pot pie voucher at Admiral Chicken Restaurants. Poor Red gets injected with the genetic product CH-6 and gets turned into a disembodied floating head who falls in love with Lola the lobster. Man is this offbeat cartoon short one heck of an authentically oddball item: From its lovably freakish retro 70's Roger Crumb-style underground animation to Gene Micofsky's wacky, sprightly score to its cheerfully wacky and outrageous sense of anything-goes gonzo humor, this baby certainly earns extra points for its singularly kooky and off-kilter comic sensibility alone. Better still, we even get wickedly nasty caricatures of fast food icons Colonel Sanders and Ronald McDonald (identified here as "impotent clown"!). Keep your eyes peeled for the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz" in a bit part. Plus you just gotta love that funky ending credits chicken pot pie rap song. In equal degrees surreal and hilarious, this beautifully bent, batty and berserk gut-buster is highly recommended to anyone with a taste for the genuinely nutty and inspired.