PA Review: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo" / "The Sisterhood"
Juan F. Lara
Directed by: Brad Goodchild
Storyboard by: Alfred Gonzales, Elaine Hultgren, John Nevarez
The 12/12 "Pepper Ann" episode was another episode where I found little
that caught my attention.
SPOILER WARNING
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo"
Written by: Matthew Negrete, Nahnatchka Khan
The only scene in this short that I really enjoyed was Mark Hamill's cameo
appearance, capped off by his get-a-life reaction to that "Star Wars" fan:
"Hey, that was like a bazillion years ago, fella! It's time to move on with
our lives, people!" I had absolutely no idea that he's been writing comic
books. :-) Beyond that, I thought Milo's story about his first inspiration was
cute. Good to get that background on him, and his inspiration was very
Warholian. :-) But I found everything else dull. Milo just stumbled from one
dead end to another and so I never got the sense of his mental block. Pepper
Ann's attempts to talk to Milo were stupid, and Nicky's plotthread made her
shrewish. A certain gag revealed Pepper Ann's cultural illiteracy. The
referencing she does there will make you wretch. :-)
"The Sisterhood"
Written by: Laura McCreary
This episode had a good topic: different generations not understanding
each other's perspectives. But I couldn't really find anything interesting
in the staff's concept of the "Adament Eve" retreat. Any satirizing of '60's
feminist activism was only superficial: aprons, going Dutch,...Rosie O'Donnell
movies? So I was just as bored as Pepper Ann was, without ever really feeling
the significance that Lydia and Janie put on the retreat. The topic wound up
broadcast in Lydia's speech to Pepper Ann about how her mom never understood
her, putting the point about as bluntly as possible. I preferred more subtle
ways to make the point like Lydia's offhand comment at the start that her mom
never took her to an event like that. And I did like the last couple of
minutes of the short.: The adults interpreted Pepper Ann's opinions along
their own sensibilities. And the scene where the three Pearsons tried to do
something together was touching. Also, Janie's preoccupation with her
personality clash with Margot was good comic relief.
- Juan F. Lara
http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~jfl/intro.html
Milo: I need to suffer for my art. I haven't suffered enough, yet.
[ kick ]
Pepper Ann: How about now?
gd
: Edited by: Nahnatchka Khan
: Directed by: Brad Goodchild
hey....I know Brad!!! Hey Brad....you've hit the big time....you're in a
newsgroup review!!! Someone say hi to Brad for me.
: Storyboard by: Alfred Gonzales, Elaine Hultgren, John Nevarez
Hultgren....I wonder whether she's related to the great Ken Hultgren?
(Disney artist and author of a great animal drawing book)
What's Pepper Ann? Where is it made?
Greg Duffell
: "The Sisterhood"
: Written by: Laura McCreary
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