UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Claudio Carvalho "American Pop" is a fantastic animation directed by Ralph Bakshi disclosing the American pop music in the Twentieth Century until 1980. The storyline follows four generations of a Russian Jewish family of refugees from the Russian Revolution that immigrate to America. Along the years, the boy Zalmie discovers life and love in night-clubs as performer and musician and becomes the patriarch of generations of musicians. The big picture of the American history is the background to present wonderful music, in blues, jazz, rock and roll, in one of the most beautiful soundtracks of the cinema history. My vote is ten.Title (Brazil): "American Pop"

Mr-Fusion A curiosity more than anything, "American Pop" has its singular animation going for it. That, and a pleasing soundtrack that lives up to the movie's name. It's the paper-thin characters and lack of flow that really kill the buzz. The jumps from one era of music to the next are pretty rough and you don't end up feeling attached to these people. At least, I didn't.I can kinda see this on a double-bill with "Heavy Metal", at least in an animation sense. But story-wise, there's no comparison.5/10

Angels_Review The show was rather hard to figure out. We seem to follow a Russian boy who came to America and was introduced to music. He ends up going into the business and we follow his life as he grows up into it, then his son and so on through four generations of this Russian Jewish family. When one story ends, another one begins to show the 20th century's popular songs and history.Sadly, the show didn't really capture my attention because of how sort of… bland, the storyline was plus the mixture in styles of art that didn't seem like they worked. The characters speak way to low to be heard and always slur their speech. I know that it might have been the times that had that smooth, slick way of talking but it just comes out slightly slopped.The artwork is rather interesting, mixing old styles of drawing, black and white pictures of the time, and a really American style of characters. The characters look extremely bland considering the backgrounds look like they were drawn by an oil painter. They seem like they were drawn to be slightly chubby and not hold there shape at all when they move. If you ever seen Gonzo on a bad day, this is pretty much like it without shading. They seem to mix in many little black and white paintings and clips into the mix as well which can throw you off at many times. The movement is mostly fluid Well, I have to say the voices seemed dead on for the stereotypical ideas of people. We have the high class musical agent talking with a slang style and we have others who have a rather gangster voice and so on. Behind this though is a rather beautiful songs that we know and love from that time frame that it corresponds to.In the end, it just wasn't my style of show. The voices were low and hard to understand, the artwork was slightly bland, the storyline was something I couldn't get into and the only thing that seemed interesting was just how they placed together old clips to the animation.

DarthBill Another feature from the one & only Ralph Bakshi, champion of adult animation. The story of four men in one family trying to find their niche in the world of American music, their stories being contrasted against the evolution of American music. First is Zalmie, the immigrant who wants to be a big shot Vaudeville singer, only to be thwarted by a throat injury he gets while performing overseas in World War 1, leaving him with a raspy, guttural voice, and then gets caught up in the mafia. Next is Zalmie's son Benny, a gifted but unmotivated piano player who manages to fall in love with the daughter of a mafia boss he is forced to marry and has a child with, only to be killed while serving in World War II - but not before he fathers a son, Tony, and not before he manages to have a brief connection with the Nazi soldier who ultimately kills him through his music. Zalmie later goes to jail for his mafia connections but not before he rats out the mafia boss he worked for, as a kind of revenge for being pulled away from his true calling. The story then shifts to Benny's son Tony, who finds success with a Jefferson Airplane type band during the 1960s, only to be thwarted by a drug addiction. Tony has an illegitimate son, Pete, who, after working as a drug pusher in the 1980s, finds success by combining the singing, songwriting and piano playing abilities of his father, grandfather and great grandfather, and hits it big by recording Bob Seger's "Night Moves".Essentially a morality tale, this is an interesting but ultimately failed venture. A noble failure, but a failure nonetheless. Zalmie is probably the most sympathetic of the four men, but the film spends way too much time focusing on the cynical crack addict Tony, who is such a whiny, obnoxious little dweeb that you just don't care about him - you simply want to hit him in the mouth.Well, worth a look I suppose for the music and the atmospheric animation.