CG Free Jimmy Too Weird for Cannes? Digital Sex and a Stoned-Out Elephant May 6th 2006 09:57am | Posted by: Michael Stevens, HNR Senior Editor "It's mad, it's just completely different," said co-producer Sarah Radclyffe, formerly of Working Title films, about director Christopher Nielsen's new CG animated movie Free Jimmy, set to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, featuring drugs, foul language and what is being touted as the world's first 3D digitally animated sex scene. The story focuses on stoned-out circus elephant 'Jimmy', constantly wasted after being fed a steady diet of uppers and downers by a drunken Russian ringmaster. Then, with even harder drugs in his system, Jimmy unwittingly becomes the target of deranged animal activists, criminal Lapplanders and trigger-happy Scottish hunters. Although the live-action, Vancouver-shot Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders may take the prize for having the weirdest animated sex images ever produced for a movie, "No one has seen a film like this", said Radclyffe about Free Jimmy, selected for the closing ceremony of Critics' Week at Cannes. "It's almost as if this is going to be the year of adult animation at Cannes". Free Jimmy, originally a Norwegian comic strip before becoming a cult TV series, began its feature production in 2000. Actor Woody "Cheers" Harrelson voices sleazy lead character 'Roy', Phil Daniels is 'Gaz' and Jim Broadbent plays the ringmaster. The criminal Lapps are voiced by actors Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss. 'Activists' are voiced by Kyle MacLachlan, Samantha Morton and Emilia Fox. Source: Sneak Peek In: Movie News |Visit the HNR Forums

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