In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This is one of the most bizarre short animated films I have ever seen. At first, when it started I was very unimpressed as the animation appears to be really lousy. Pictures looked like they were roughly torn out of a magazine and these pieces of paper were moved using stop-motion. The music also had a real home made quality about it. I was baffled. However, the more I watched the more I enjoyed the film. Much of this enjoyment was because the whole thing was so strange and part of it is because the song has really odd lyrics that made me laugh.The film is about an ugly nobody named George. No one likes or cares about him and his life is miserable. Then one day, an odd growth begins to appear on top of his head. Over time, it becomes a beautiful face--much like Michelangelo's statue of David. And, because he was an ugly nobody, George wore his clothes in a way that hid is ugly nobody face and everyone thought the growth was him! Then, as a result of getting this odd sort of makeover, his life changed dramatically. Everyone loved him and eventually he parlayed this into becoming President--all due to a weird lump! There's much more to the story than this, but as you could tell by the description it's bizarre but somehow likable and different....very, very different!

Poor George is ugly and unattractive. He even scares pigeons away! By Jove, his only job is to be a model for a gargoyle sculptor! And when he's still a kid, he finds his mother in the arms of another kid! But, one day, a lump appears on his head. The lump becomes a second head, a beautiful one. With this new look, his life changes overnight. He becomes a successful politician. But his colleagues are corrupted and their actions are enticing the people to do the revolution. Poor George is sentenced to death by guillotine. But guess what! He's got a second head, his old one. And he goes back to being the ugly George that he was before. Interesting animation with those heads that appear to be taken from a magazine. The song is funny and well chosen.Seen in Sudbury, on December 31st, 2002. And twice again, at home, in Toronto, on December 31st, 2004.83/100 (***)

This short, produced by the NFBC, uses a style of stop-motion that, at least to my eye, is distracting and not entirely effective. But the music is spendid and the basic concept and script are engaging enough to overcome some very definite visual drawbacks. Makes some pithy and cogent remarks on humanity's character and values (or lack thereof), but could have been better, for me at least, had the animation been less irksome. Well worth seeing.

I'm probably the only one who cares to watch O Canada on Cartoon Network. This is one of the first cartoons I saw on the show, and the song from this toon has been stuck in my head ever since. It's quite a creative animated musical in which an unpopular man grows a lump on his head that looks like a Greek figure. He pretends this is his head, and he becomes much more popular. However, later the lump ends up getting him into trouble. I'll never forget the one part at the beginning that went like "If he ever asked out a woman, she would nearly call a cop!" Worth watching.