![]() ![]() The movie definitely makes you want to read, or re-read, these classics. The movie generates great excitement and awe over Watterson's work, especially when Schroeder is shown, white-gloved, poring over original strips. ![]() Flickr: kjell Advertisement So it was with little hope (and a lot of trepidation) that Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis set out to meet Watterson last April. Basically, he hasn't drawn a comic since he quit in 1995. Secondly, director Joel Allen Schroeder - whose first feature-length film this is - fails to film the "Calvin and Hobbes" comics in a simple, straightforward way so that the audience can actually read them instead, he keeps them moving around, adding digital effects for short attention spans.Īnd though the rest of the movie is presented in the typical talking-head format, the interviews are all enthusiastic and feature the faces behind many popular comic strips, including Berkeley Breathed ("Bloom County" and "Opus") and Stephan Pastis ("Pearls Before Swine"). Bill Watterson, the creator of popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, is known as a bit of a recluse. ![]() ![]() He's not even in photographs, though some of his quotes are printed onscreen. WATTERSON has two frustrating aspects: Most obviously, the reclusive Bill Watterson does not appear anywhere in the film. ![]()
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