Owen Kline's 'Funny Pages,' about an aspiring cartoonist desperate to ditch his suburban upbringing, reminds us that people are weird and gross and awkward — and that's really fun to watch. K. Austin Collins' review
is not a cartoon, but its young hero, Roger, nevertheless comes off like a coyote on the run from the anvils threatening to fall on his head. His own ego is dropping the anvils.
Maybe they are. But Roger is still very much a teenager: excitable and immature, high on his own potential, blind to failure, willing to do whatever it takes only because he’s still ignorant of the humiliations of “doing whatever it takes.” He’s a talented artist.
Owen Kline’s script is boisterous, funny, and very much committed to the bit. This is a movie about junior independence, after all, about a slightly full-of-himself young talent who’s journeying out on his own for the first time. So Kline makes sure the journey is memorable. Roger moves out of his parents’ house in Princeton to live in a sketchy basement in Trenton with a pair of older, sweaty nerds.
Underground comics have long sought to remind us that everyday life can be weird, exciting, and gross. For all the exaggerated ugliness in the work of someone like R. Crumb, the edginess of it is, from a certain perspective, pretty honest, blurring the line between picking your nose, say, and making art out of picking your nose.is very much nose-picker cinema.
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