Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he finds himself fighting those who want these wings for their own dark plans.
Good battles evil as a gun-running, booze-swilling, cigarette-puffing badass is dragged, kicking and screaming, toward salvation in Bill Plympton's slyly sardonic black comedy, his best animated feature to date.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
7 May 2008
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Even without a word of dialogue, Plympton's dark fable about the almost unnatural redemption of a lost soul content in its damnation is easily understood, and neatly told.
– Greg Quill,
Toronto Star,
14 Aug 2009
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A dystopian commentary on humankind.
– Michael Posner,
Globe and Mail,
14 Aug 2009
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In some respects, Idiots and Angels shows legendary independent animator Bill Plympton at the top of his game.
– Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York,
6 Oct 2010
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The dystopia conjured by Idiots and Angels, Mr. Plympton's sixth and best animated feature, suggests Toulouse-Lautrec by way of Charles Bukowski.