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City kids Priidik, Aino and little Mart are dropped off at their
grandpa's milk farm in the country for the summer, despite being
ill-equipped for country life. And they certainly don't like the way
grandpa treats his sole cow, who apparently provides milk for the whole
village of milk-craving locals. So the kids are giving the cow some
freedom - upon which the cow makes an escape. So the next morning, grandpa
takes Priidik and Aino to re-capture the cow - while Mart is left to his
own devices, and starts building cow robots (!). Thing is, there's
another man after the cow, the Old Milker, who formerly provided the
village with milk until he left his cow unmilked for too long and she
exploded. And from here on he has vowed to kill all cows - and to achieve
that, he hires a trio of underemployed sawmill workers, complete with
buzzsaws and chainsaws, to literally cut the cow down to size. The cow
though is not one to easily be taken in, and her escape route takes her to
a hippie music festival, a horny tree god, and finally the inside of a
giant bear, with all the while her udder growing in size, until in the
finale, that also includes the stand-off between the Old Milker and grandpa,
it's ready to burst. But somehow, that's hardly the biggest threat facing
everybody involved ... Now one thing's for sure, The Old Man
Movie is truly mad, and it manages to be just that by really taking
its stop motion animation approach to the limits, caring less about
super-slick animation and more about the things that can be created within
the medium, the madness that can be achieved. But that said, what really
makes the film is that it isn't just mad for the madness's sake but
creates a coherent world in which all the insanity makes some sense - and
within that context, the film is also dead funny, and if your mind is just
a little warped, you're almost sure to be entertained.
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