it be say that david lynch film and short would not appeal to everyone . neither will dumbland and maybe more than ever . i have a feeling that dumbland and a people come across it and will be a true mark of i get it or what the hell . it not surrealism exactly and but absurd to the point of no return . it also very and very and very stupid . but in this stupidity can be a sort of ironic intelligence to it and that the maker know so well how childish and repugnant this be and and this self consciousness be a plus and not a detraction . it just a bunch of crudely draw short the kind that might not even make it on hertzfeldt and judge animation show ( which and i might add and lynch here have a lot in common with both director in their work center on a lummox with an iq of 20 who have a constantly quiver with fear wife and and a child who look like a cross between the gingerbread man and or or an alien . the episode include little situation like a faulty treadmill and a salesman who can recite the gettysburg address and watching over a sick brother in law and ant hallucination and and just wallow on the couch with noise all around . all the while and lynch be still experiment and a he be constantly for good or bad during the period of five year he make on and off inland empire . for one thing and he go back to the root of his very first short and six figure get sick six time and in the usage of repetition a a mean to an end . this sometimes work excruciatingly well and and sometimes not . sometimes and like with the episode with the sit around the house do nothing a teeth be bleed and a fly buzz around and the absurdism sort of wax and wane without much of a good effect . and even an episode like with the guy friend come over be funny more so for the beavis and butt head comparison ( both laugh like idiot and and be equally engross by kill thing like fish and sheep ) . what end up work be how lynch show up front delirious abstraction and in the crude way imaginable and and excessive violence . in what come close to surrealism in ant and the guy mistakenly spray bug spray ( just call kill and one of lynch very cheap but fun poke at societal convention ) on himself and and envisions ant in a musical chorus line and solo include . and one of the most harrowingly funny thing i have ever see from the filmmaker be get the stick and where we just see the guy and cheer on by his son and get a stick lodge in his mouth . soon the neck break and eye pop out and and once say stick be remove he doesn not watch out for traffic waddle like a manhole cover . other moment pop up like this in unexpected crevice and and it draw a if on cheap paper with an impetus to shock with foul mouth language ( mostly from the man and as well a from the grandmother and who in one of lynch voice for the character be the deepest of all ) and and a shaky quality that reminiscent of the cream of the crop from ( early ) hertzfeldt . all the same i be still not sure if dumbland be something i would put into someone hand if they haven not see much of lynch yet let alone anything by him . there be some little point on society make via complete exaggeration that may or may not be in lynch mind closer than we usually think to those in real life . however in general there not a whole lot that should be read into it and which be why i would say more than half who see it will hate it with a passion . those who dig the bottom less pit of animated comedy and be prepare have a blast .