DON’T be fooled by the title. “The Animation Show 4” isn’t Disney and isn’t for kids. Rather, it is a collection of 20 or so some times raunchy, often offensive and always entertaining animated shorts from around the world.
Funniest, if you ask me, is Steve Dildarian’s “Angry Unpaid Hooker.” Tim’s girlfriend arrives home from Bermuda and discovers him sharing the couch with the titular hooker, who wants her $300. (More of Tim’s misadventures will be found this fall in a new HBO series.)
Creepiest is Adam Smith and Alan Foulkes’ “This Way Up,” a Tim Burton-ish comedy about two undertakers who encounter bizarre problems delivering an elderly woman to her final resting place.
In Matthew Walker’s “John and Karen,” John the polar bear apologizes to his beloved, a penguin named Karen. And in master animator Bill Plympton’s “Hot Dog,” a dog tries to help the experts at a fire.
Get the idea?
Running time: 81 minutes. Not rated (mature themes). At the IFC Center, Sixth Avenue and Third Street.