A Town Called Panic is the cinematic brainchild of Belgian artists Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier, it's the kind of perverse puppetoon anarchy that both references and reinvents the genre it is working within. Having gotten its start as a successful TV series (small five minute movies were typically linked together to form half hour shows), it represents the pinnacle of protracted procrastination. Many will see it as nothing more than a child's playset come to life, a collection of action figures and animal collectibles running chaotically around a fake landscape. The story will also be seen as secondary to the high pitched voices, non sequitor slapstick, one off in-jokes, and attempts at satire. Like Pee Wee's Playhouse gone continental, A Town Called Panic doesn't purport to be some manner of sly social commentary or expressive international incident. Instead, it's supposed to remind one of lazy days sitting in your bedroom, rifling through your belongings and making up adventures as the sun slowly sank in the distance.