Future Forms

Filter Magazine
United States
February 20, 2004

The Point

Less greedy (though more dead) is everyone's favorite Beatle-approved piano man: Nilsson. On March 23, BMG will drop the highly (cheap stoner pun intended) anticipated DVD release of his animated feature The Point! There's a character named Leaf Man, a pot-pop masterpiece entitled ^"Poli High^" and a THC-laced storyline. Best known through the soft-rock renderings of his deceptively snuggly gems ^"One^" and ^"Everybody's Talkin'^", Nilsson wrote this cartoon "family" feature about the adventures of a round-headed boy in a town where everything is pointed. Less obviously fried than H.R. Pufnstuff and not as utterly surrealistic as Dr. Seuss, The Point! debuted as a "movie of the week" with narration by Dustin Hoffman on ABC in 1971. A soundtrack album of Nilsson's score was reissued in 2002 on CD, though the original LP is a fixture of garage sales and used record bins. Also, the DVD will feature new narration from the last likeable Beatle alive (Ringo Starr of course).

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Author:

Bernardo Rondeau