Canadian Animated Films: Strange Invaders (2001)

Cordell Barker's Hilarious Coming of Age Story For Adults

Aug 5, 2009

Beautiful animation short with rich colours, quirky characters and hilarious story about the trials and tribulations that come with adopting "strange invaders".

Strange Invaders opens with a beautiful rendition of Lakmé’s, “Flower Duet” amidst the deep rich colours of a dark blue night sky populated with bright, golden stars. While travelling through outer space, we finally descend onto a small Canadian town overflowing with little babies from home to home. Roger, in his home, uses his telescope to spy on these little critters and wonders how such beautiful little babies could come from such ugly people.

A Quirky, Horny Couple (With a Bad Back)

Roger’s wife, Doris (or as he likes to call her, “Wiggles”), grabs her man from the telescope and straddles him for some hot, passionate love-making. What ensues is perhaps the funniest love scene in animation history as the Doris man-handles her man in almost every conceivable location in the couple’s bedroom. Roger can only succumb to his passion while admonishing his lover to watch for his bad back.

About Last Night...

What else can a wild night of love-making bring but a stranger invader from another planet? The couple wake up to find a gothic-looking child whose obsession with Roger’s nickname, “Peanuts’ appears cute until repeated over twenty times. This alien is a welcome novelty to the couple if it weren’t for its mad, out-of-this-world ways that literally leave the couple’s house on fire.

Cordell Barker - Writer, Director and Animator

Considered one of Canada’s best animators, Cordell Barker was born in the late fifties in Winnipeg. His animation career began in his teens and has earned him two Oscar nominations for his shorts, “The Cat Came Back” (1988) and Stranger Invaders (2002). Barker will be releasing his third film, “Runaway” in 2009.

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