Concert Kid is a weird, frantic little ride

Is this thing worth a watch?

If you have seven minutes to kill and a high tolerance for old-school cartoon slapstick, sure. It’s for folks who miss the days when animation felt like it was drawn by someone vibrating on too much caffeine. If you need a coherent story or a reason to care about these characters, keep scrolling.

Concert Kid is pure, unadulterated noise. Scrappy is basically the cartoon equivalent of that one friend who won't take no for an answer. Watching him drag Oopie toward a stage is surprisingly tense, in a goofy way.

The whole gum thing is... a choice. It starts as a way to keep Oopie quiet and ends up turning the violin performance into a total nightmare. Honestly, I’ve seen messier kitchen disasters, but the way the music distorts is genuinely funny.

The animation has that bouncy, loose feel that makes me think of The Discontented Canary, though maybe a bit less polished. Every frame feels like it’s fighting to stay on the screen. It’s not trying to be The Greater Glory or anything heavy like that. It’s just trying to be a cartoon.

Odd bits I noticed:

• The way Oopie’s bow moves is entirely disconnected from reality. It’s almost hypnotic.
• Scrappy’s smile? Kind of terrifying if you stare at it too long.
• The sound design is just pure chaos. My ears are still ringing a little bit.

It gets better when it stops pretending there’s a plot and just lets the physical comedy run wild. The last minute feels like a fever dream. You can tell they ran out of ways to make the joke work, so they just turned the volume up.

It’s not a masterpiece. It’s not even a great cartoon. But it’s got *energy*. 🎻💨