{"id":16324,"date":"2015-10-31T00:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T04:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16324"},"modified":"2015-10-16T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T16:05:32","slug":"gary-larsons-tales-from-the-far-side-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/gary-larsons-tales-from-the-far-side-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Larson\u2019s Tales from the Far Side (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tales-from-the-far-side-ii-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tales-from-the-far-side-ii-2.jpg\" alt=\"tales-from-the-far-side-ii--2\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tales-from-the-far-side-ii-2.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/tales-from-the-far-side-ii-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoying \u201cTales from the Far Side\u201d is based on whether or not you enjoy Gary Larsen\u2019s original comic strip. I\u2019d go so far as to say that the original comic strip was never this dark or surreal. I definitely wouldn\u2019t call the animated special from Gary Larson funny, but it definitely succeeds in irony and some very morbid animated pieces. Rather than a fluid narrative, \u201cTales from the Far Side\u201d shifts from scenario to scenario, all of which are interconnected by some circumstance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Larson\u2019s animated special is a hit or miss affair, with pretty much all of the segments reliant on some horror scenario that are either really unique or kind of clunky. I thought \u201cThe Bacon Bunch\u201d was very one note, while the finale was pretty anti-climactic. But thankfully the missed segments are few and far between with some random edgy mature humor thrown in for good measure. There is even a really morbid throwaway gag with a man\u2019s hand dangling from a window as his parrot squawks \u201cIs this loaded?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, we follow a myriad of usual Larson characters, all of whom garner their own scenario. My favorites have to be the monster in the closet that gets a surprise when he attempts to sneak up on a little boy. I also really enjoyed the segment involving the hunters that strap a buck to the front of their car, and end up becoming the hunted in the end. The transition from print to page is a tough one, and the Far Side just works more as a comic strip than an animated movie, in the end. Although, \u201cTales from the Far Side\u201d may have value for animation fans that love surreal and darkly morbid comedy with their Halloween festivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoying \u201cTales from the Far Side\u201d is based on whether or not you enjoy Gary Larsen\u2019s original comic strip. I\u2019d go so far as to say that the original comic strip was never this dark or surreal. I definitely wouldn\u2019t call the animated special from Gary Larson funny, but it definitely succeeds in irony and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,17],"tags":[64,88,99,103,219,259,349,477,678,906],"class_list":["post-16324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","category-tv-tomb","tag-adaptation","tag-aliens","tag-animation","tag-anthology","tag-comedy","tag-dark-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-monsters","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16326,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions\/16326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}