After talks fell through, he decided to just make a movie himself, and five years later he ended up with this: A fellow named Jeff Lew made a couple of short films to teach himself animation, and they proved popular enough to earn him calls from movie producers. There’s a lesson in the making of Killer Bean Forever, although I’m not entirely sure what it is. He’s either about to be hit by a train, or he really needs to go to the bathroom. “Check out how evil I am! Can you even believe it?”Ĭombine that with facial expressions that make the characters look more like emotionally stunted robots than people and every conversation in the film is comedic gold. The characters speak in strawman arguments and Internet debate talking points instead of real human words – in the trailer, the evil government (redundancy!) agent gives a speech about how freedom isn’t important, while our hip, sexy heroine never misses an opportunity to ramble on about how awesome silver is.
Political junkies will have loads of fun ripping apart the film’s misplaced political paranoia and basic misunderstanding of economics, but even if you support the film’s message or just don’t care about politics you’ll still crack up at the campy dialogue and animation that looks like a video game gone horribly wrong.Īnd special guest star Barack Obama as The Love Interest. You have to admire the creators’ dedication to their criticism of “worthless paper money,” as they apparently paid their animators in gum and handshakes. Silver Circle is more of a 90 minute rant about the evils of the government from a teenaged Ron Paul supporter than it is a movie, which would be boring if not for the hilarious animation. One spunky group of rebels decides to fight back against their oppressive government the only way they know how: by minting their own silver coins to compete against the greenback. Their intervention is disastrous, and America falls into shambles.
The Fed intervenes, seizing control of America’s economy. The United States dollar has lost its place as the world’s reserve currency. So the next time you’re looking for a dud to mock, why not check out one of the following animated spectacles?
Fans of train wrecks will be familiar with movies like The Room and Birdemic, but may not know that the medium of animation has its fair share of hilarious disasters, too.