Fresh
Behold the power of cheese!
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
Overview
An psychedelic animated short celebrating America's bicentennial.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
The story, about a road race in the not-too-distant future for which the drivers are given points for running down pedestrians, becomes an elaborate and telling fantasy about our peculiar popular entertainments. Fine work carved from minimal materials.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Script, from an Ib Melchior story, makes its satirical points economically, and director Paul Bartel keeps the film moving quickly.
Variety
Fresh
Overall the movie isn't as synchromeshed as it might be; the rivalry between champions Carradine and Stallone isn't very interesting, and some of the gags aren't sick or funny enough. But it's a great audience film.
Time Out
Rotten
In the end, it reveals itself to have nothing to say beyond the superficial about government or rebellion. And in the absence of such a statement, it becomes what it seems to have mocked -- a spectacle glorifying the car is an instrument of violence.
New York Times
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