How can you explain to someone what is exactly so especial about Home Movies? It's easy... right?? I mean the series it's based on a rather simple idea (and one who many people can identify with): Little Brendon Small dreams to become a famous director one day, an his really taking it seriously since has about a thousand of home made movies in his "short career".
Still, this isnt' what does make Home Movies such a witty, plain ridiculous and original series, since what the series truly talks about it's the simple (and sometimes quite realistic) mis-adventures of Brendon, his friends (Melissa and Jason), his Mom and "the drunk irish guy" of his school coach MacGuirk.
Also everyone who has seen this series will give me the reason when I say that this is the series that made Adult Swim the way it is known: it is about smart shows with content and great ideas, truly "adult animation". The fact that this series was saved from the "deat channel" (UPN) its one thing, but the fact that was considered for a retake and actually survived four seasons, it's just something completely different.
Either way this is that type of show who is intelligent and funny, and works beautifully in his own style: the lack of script, the Squiglevision (at least in the first season) and the well-developed characters. Since altough adult animation, this series deals about children's problems, who are magnified and reflected into the "adult world". In such an ironic way we have Brendon who appears like a young man inside a children's body, Jason the most disfunctional and weird kid I have ever seen on a cartoon, and who can forget Melissa, too mature for his age.
And of course, Brendon's Mom, coach McGuirk and the other "adult characters", just children inside the body of grown-ups.

RATE: 3.5 Stars. A smart, witty, rather strange and just funny series who with it's akward style and comedy was something that even real comedy couldn't achieved. Four seasons, and still too short, some say that the last season was the best, it may be tastes but I disagree, for me it's between the second and first. Simply because was the time when modern television and animation were still good.