The Borogoves Are Mimsy Again--Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY
© By Amy Harlib
This re-release of Jabberwocky comes with an opening animated short, "Storytime" (apparently made in the late 1960s), stylistically anticipating Monty Python's Flying Circus segments. Its tripartite structure offers a deliciously wacky appetizer with its affable cockroach, refreshingly perverse Christmas cards sequence and ending with a very brief bio of Albert Einstein (not that one). "Storytime" plus the main course serves up a moviegoing meal that must be savored by Monty Python fans and ought to win over new ones willing to accept the uniquely bizarre humor that results when Gilliam puts his imagination to use in his chosen medium.
Amy Harlib loves science fiction and fantasy whatever form it comes in. She has her own column for book and film reviews at The Wandering Troll and is a regular reviewer for The Blue Iris Journal. She has kindly agreed to share her views here at Suite 101 as an occasional guest contributor.
"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..." Read the poem and Humpty Dumpty's explanation.
Craig J. Clark has a superb essay on Terry Gilliam's work to 1994.
On the other hand, there's John Cleese's brief but telling bio.
(Production stills provided by Dreams, the official Terry Gilliam fanzine.)
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