Pope video

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Screengrab's Bilge Ebiri has linked to a five-minute YouTube clip of a seemingly hand-animated, presumably Vatican-funded piece called John Paul II, Friend of Humanity. It's a little bit odd -- sweetly deranged, as religious propaganda tends to be -- but not enough to be bizarre-funny. It begins with the Pope's death on April 2, 2005, as noted by four close friends -- John Paul II's talking diary and talking ink pen (who both have sad emotive eyes) as well as Piccolo and Fiona, the Pope's "bosom pigeons." Then there's a Clutch Cargo-like image of John Paul II waving to his followers as he ascends into the night skies above Rome. If only the Pope had bade a final verbal Clutch Cargo farewell with that weirdly organic wet-mouth and "live" lip-and-tongue effect.