Writer-director Cesar Cabral's animated whatsit proves more compelling as a concept than as an actual movie.

Even without valuable details on the man's history and personal relationships, "Bob Spit" mostly charms as a zany portrait of a person coming to terms with the multitudes contained within himself.

They're simultaneously trying to create a kind of found-audio conversation with a conversation at the same time they're trying to do a kind of nightmarish evocation of his work. It just doesn't work.

Undoubtedly among the most impressive of this year's animated works