"If anyone's taking that gay horse, it's me," declares ruthless ex-military cryptid poacher Nicholas, while Lauren Gray, the heroic protector of mythological creatures in Cryptozoo, prepares to take off on a snowy white Pegasus with a mane and wings in pastel rainbow shades.
That kind of droll humor was a constant in graphic novelist Dash Shaw's 2016 feature debut, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea.
His trippy new film is a somewhat less jokey odyssey, more thematically ambitious and visually elaborate, its kaleidoscopic images serving a story about the clash between countercultural idealism and the military-industrial complex.
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