The (Norman) Osborns: Be Deviled
The Soda Jerks
Creators: Daniel DeFabio
Length: 1 minutes
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The (Norman) Osborns is a triple spoof that makes for of three separate genre of entertainment skilfully. The Norman is your atypical American family composed of Dad (Willen Dafoe), playing his Hobgoblin role, Son, Harry Osborn, and Peter parker, the Son-like figure. Dad has meeting with his lawyer, Matt - Ben Affleck - Daredevil Murdoch, but will the new Pepsi Twist ruin the day?
The clip is short and packs jokes quickly. At less than a minute, people won't get bored fast, but that's the problem. I expected more. The cartoon needed more development. It's as id DeFabio realized that he could only get one joke each from all his characters. A couple of face-offs with Parker and Murdoch, say, comparing the success of their respective films would have added more.
The animation in this short is really poor, but they don't need to get more complicated than that to deliver the message. Using a combination of photographs of actors' heads and Flash-drawn bodies, the project still works. The backgrounds are also bitmap images. The cartoon would have looked better, had DeFabio cut the aliasing around the bitmaps and made clean overlays.
Hervé