which starts streaming on Netflix on April 1st and will hopefully get a theatrical run somewhere; it’s really a big-screen movie — traffics in the sensation of looking back in wistfulness. It’s an animated take on a space age of innocence, a Rotoscoped roman à clef hidden under the guise of a kid’s adventure flick. Our hero is Stan , your typical fourth-grader in El Lago, Texas, circa 1969. He’s approached on the playground by two official looking men played by Zachary Levi and Glen Powell.
, has been acting as a de facto narrator. But before we go any further, he’s decided that he wants to show us what life was like for kids back in the late 1960s. And that’s whenLicorice Pizza. Linklater was born in 1960, so he’d be around Stan’s age when Neil Armstrong took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind; like the movie’s hero, he spent some of his formative years right outside of Houston. Unlike Stan, the futuredirector only grew up with two older sisters, and not in “Brady Bunch-like configuration” where he was the youngest of six siblings.
But it’s not hard to imagine that Linklater also remembers the appeal of new inventions like push-button phones and “Astroturf,” or the joy of riding Schwinn bikes through dusky suburban streets, or getting a Popsicle stuck to your tongue at the local community pool on a sweltering July day. It’s possible that his own mom, much like the cranky matriarch of Stan’s family, stretched a Sunday ham out for four day’s worth of meals and made tons of Jello molds.
What keeps this from just being the neato cinematic equivalent of those Sixties pop-culture jigsaw puzzles, however, is how all this cataloguing of stuff starts to construct a vibe that eventually informs and opens up that kid’s adventure story.
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