Imagine a cross between cartoonish, live-action musical Grease, Finnish show-band crazies the Leningrad Cowboys, and violently twisted video game Stubbs the Zombie, and there you have it: Hair High.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2024

Plympton's fourth feature film is also his least inspired, but it's still very much worth a look.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 19, 2007

It's a wickedly fine ensemble and Plympton gives everyone free rein, which is no surprise from the creator of this irreverent, freewheeling delight.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 13, 2007

Hair High is not for everyone, but it's not like anything else out right now.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 12, 2007

It's gross-out fare of the highest caliber.

Full Review | Apr 12, 2007

Rarely is filmmaking of any kind this exuberant, this inventive or this entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2007

It's probably time for Plympton -- who's been making films for nearly 30 years -- to try to do something a little loftier.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 12, 2007

With sharp animation, funny gags and catchy songs, Hair High plays like the weirdest, and improbably sweetest, send-up of Grease you'll ever see.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 12, 2007

Much of the visual comedy comes from the incongruous proportions of the bodies: skinny legs and puffed-out chests.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2006

The film spoils itself %u2014 and not in the way Plympton has spoiled his fans so much before.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 23, 2006

An amusing send-up of late '50s/early '60s high-school melodramas and teen-tragedy pop hits.

| Oct 19, 2006

The monstrous images that are so effective in Plympton's short Plymptoons can be unpleasant at feature length and eventually overwhelm what is, at heart, a Grease-like teen-movie parody.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2006

In the gleefully outrageous animated feature Hair High, director Bill Plympton walks the border between ridiculously gross and outright offensive.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2006

The taste meter on Hair High gets turned off somewhere around the halfway mark.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2006

Too glib to qualify as satire, Hair High nails the high school experience.

| Oct 17, 2006

Demonstrates the problem with taking a singular animated style -- best seen in witty, small doses -- and extending it to a 78-minute feature that taxes one's patience.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 24, 2006

When Plympton's freak flag flies, Hair High delivers the same whacked-out weirdness of his shorts. The rest of the film simply stretches out the simple premise...

| Original Score: C | Mar 23, 2006

Just remember all of the anxieties you had in high school and apply them to Plympton's twisted gray matter.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2004

| Original Score: B | Apr 17, 2004

Hair High is the actually the artist's most cohesive 'story' to date...which means it's only about 35% weirder than any other sort of animation out there.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2004