
In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.... (Full plot summary below)
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In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.
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| Film Journal InternationalFrank LoveceBrimming with extraordinary heart and imagination. |
| IndieWireEric KohnCheatin' is gleefully enjoyable and loaded with unexpected twists at every turn. |
| Boston GlobePeter KeoughPlympton will be cheated if Cheatin’ doesn’t at least get nominated for a best animated feature Oscar. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsSo while Cheatin' does have a narrative spine, it's most entertaining when it's hardest to pin down. |
| Slant MagazineOleg IvanovThe plot is pure pulp, inspired in equal parts by the tropes and imagery of film noir, grand opera, and silent melodrama. |
| Huffington PostBrandon JudellThe visuals are consistently brilliant, Plympton's delving into human nature is unparalleled in recent animation, and the imaginative conceits that spit forth without respite are very near mind-blowing. He's a Rube Goldberg of the psyche. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerIn an earnest bid to balance noir and nutty, neither benefits, in this otherwise anti-Disney fantasy freakout counting super-macho misery and objectified devious damsels in undress popping up. Perhaps revealing more about the filmmaker than anything else. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottMr. Plympton rewrites the laws of physics at will, but within a rigorous and coherent logic. He conjures a world of absolute improbability that, somehow, makes perfect sense. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe early scenes, of the couple falling for each other, offer more inspired gorgeous wonder than late Malick films, and the emotions are more piercing. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesBill StametsThe film is extremely rich in visual inventiveness and depth of feeling — with numerous sequences that could almost pass muster as individual shorts. |