Reviews
“Hilarious”
- Time Magazine
“Every short is concentrated goodness: it’s super-clean, the timing is tight, the parody artwork is spot-on and period-perfect. It’s animated on ones, and whatever technique best serves the story, from computer to traditional, is delivered with aplomb.”
- Animation World Magazine
“Delightfully animated by Aaron Augenblick, it is, like so much else here, extremely rude, invigoratingly arbitrary, and awfully funny.”
- Variety
“…There’s an animated segment that is very strongly influenced by the FRITZ THE CAT and other Ralph Bakshi animation. Bonus points.”
- Ain’t It Cool News
“It was a kick to be in a room with hundreds of other people unable to control their laughter.”
- Greencine.com
“A lot of Golden Age was the concept of the bizarre, half-remembered cartoons that exist out there in the ether.”
- Daily Insider
“What kind of sexual relationships exist in the Smurfs, with one lone women among a hundred men? What kind of weird things are going on?”
- The Reeler
“With each segment, “Golden Age” dips into an expired animation era, plucks an iconic but relatively obscure character from its natural habitat and documents the scandalous life story that had never been told.”
- The News Journal
“Mortimer Koon is about the struggle to succeed in the business world, Kongobot portrays the challenges faced by immigrants, and Lancaster Loon deals with drug and alcohol dependency.”
- New England Film
“A send up of all of those “whatever happened to” type shows, we discover the trials of former beloved cartoon characters including a movie concessions gum drop, a cartoon mascot and a trio of World War II dictators from war bond cartoons. I laughed and laughed. Thanks to Aaron Augenblick for that.”
- Beck’s Day
“Don’t overlook “Golden Age” (Dir. Aaron Augenblick), a 22-minute anthology of goofy cartoons - consider it your “Adult Swim” break.”
- Kim Adelman of Indiewire
“…and my fave, Golden Age (Aaron Augenblick)- Sort of a “Where are they now” version of various cartoon archetypes.
(** all done in flash! Got to talk to Aaron afterwards- very cool guy)”
- Daisy Church
“A dark comedy that uses hand-drawn and Flash animation to reveal the shocking true stories of classic cartoon characters.”
- Animation Magazine