JEAN SIMMONS' OTHER ANIMATED MOVIE

Hollywood Silver-Ager, Jean Simmons, isn't just the voice of Sophie in Hayao Miyazaki's HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE, she's also part of the voice cast in China's first computer-animated film, THRU THE MOEBIUS STRIP. Designed by French comics artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud, it's a Jolly-Rancher-colored sci-fi/fantasy flick, and having seen some of the footage I'm sorry to report that it has all the charm and magic of giant clomps of chewed rubber bumping into scraps of plasticine.

Check out the impossible-to-navigate THRU THE MOEBIUS STRIP website, where they lead off their press page with a giant photo of two dragonflies humping.