Spike & Mike Animation

I really liked the film festival the first time I went. A great crowd showed up and the films were funny and new. But the last time I went several years after having first gone, I was sorely disappointed. The crowd was kinda yuppy and several of the same films from years before were still in the lineup. I have gone back several times but I think I am done.

Not Sick & Twisted, but still lots of fun!

I have been an avid fan of Spike and Mike’s for several years. Should you have the opportunity to see one of their animation festivals, I highly recommend the «Sick and Twisted» shows. The more family friendly show was also very entertaining. Spike and Mike know how to pick a great line up of not so ordinary cartoons as a way to show the true nature of Animation as a genre of art and not just a means for amusement.

I grew up going to this event and it s a really great memory. I went with the lady tiger and another couple and we had a good time. The place was lousy with kids running around bopping big balloons around. I don’t know exactly when the transition from me being one of those kids to the grumpy old «dang kids“guy happened, though.
I think that as an adult without kids, I will probably hit up the sick and twisted version from now on.

The 2010 Spike and Mike Sick and Twisted was excellent. Drinky Crow, Tiny Hats, Ask Dr. Tran!
Why would you bring your children to something that has Sick and Twisted? Perhaps they were blatantly false advertising? Oops… I guess not! The festival has been around for over a decade in San Diego, have you been living under a rock? Stay home and watch the Peanuts Christmas Special.
Anything that gets the ultra-​conservative, super-​rich duldroms of La Jolla’s feathers in a tangle is approved by me. I long for the day Slayer performs Raining Blood in its entirety at the Cove. Go eat some vegetables, wimp.
Look forward to seeing you guys at Comic Con.

The worst episode of Southpark or Family Guy is infinitely more entertaining or funny than any of these short, stupid animation clips. Most of them if not all of them had no plot, no climax, no story. It is just like the class projects of a bunch of adolescent animation students hustled to theater and billed as some kind entertainment to pay for it. There were many people sitting around us, mostly adults, who wondered what the hell are all these stupid, short videos. Several of the videos were crude or sexual with no point. Some stupid people brought their family & kid’s. A lot of losers in La Jolla must have never had cable or have nothing else better to do. I am scarred for life with how stupid all these videos were! I want to sue them; they make me believe in censorship and to have a Ministry of Culture like France has to shut this crap down before any one else gets psychological damaged from that mind-​numbing intellectual assault.

new to this event, got a flyer in a Mexican joint in Escondido and saw Dr. Tran — needless to say, i dragged my friends in for the nite and we were not disappointed.
the clips were short funny (not the key lime or 11 roses) but nonetheless, all were great original insane takes on creative animation.
we demand more bouncing balls next time!

If you haven’t seen a Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Film Festival, yet possess a totally degenerate sense of entertainment and humor, go today. Its basically 90 minutes full of the most grotesque, disturbing and outlandish animation possible from the best and brightest of today’s most morbid animators. This is better than any Sundance, Cannes or Tribeca film festival, but you’d better have a very strong stomach. The festival’s offerings change periodically and it tours around the country a couple of times a year. I’ve seen it in Berkeley, Austin, San Fran and Madison. The producers, Spike and Mike themselves, actually show up to MC sometimes (they made an appearance when I saw it in Austin). Everybody from Robin Williams to Jack Black, Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead), George Lucas and Trey Parker (South Park, Team America) have praised these guys. Rolling on the floor funny…