TIFF13 REVIEW: Asphalt Watches [2014]

“Hey! Don’t forget your Boston Piiiiiiiiiizzzzzzaaassssss.” I’m not one to condone illicit drug use, but you might want to take something if it’s available before sitting down to watch Asphalt Watches since its animated road trip plays out as though its creators were doing the same while producing it. Based on writers/directors Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver‘s eight-day hitchhiking journey across Canada, everything you see really did happen. Rather than simply recount their adventure, however, they’ve decided to give each other cartoon avatars with which to engage the nightmarish menagerie…

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