SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

HagenDas There is no movie like Meet the Raisins. It's funny and delightful. It premise is quite simple; a mockumentary on a famous music group. But, I think it's one of the funniest ones I've ever seen. The claymation world is really amazing and it stands up beautifully to today's standards. In fact, it's quite amazing just how great it looks. Will Vinton was a true visionary. More importantly the jokes are fresh and the plot is fun. But, what impresses me the most is that the musical numbers are amazing and rival original versions of the songs sang. Don't miss this.I can't believe a proper definitive release of this hasn't happened. This film has some of the greatest animation ever done.

Darth-Helmet In a world populated by anthropomorphic fruits and vegetables, four Raisins from California on how they were ordinary dried grapes would soon become famous singing stars.A hilarious and creative Clay animated mockumentary from Will Vinton Studios! i love how they use the popular commercial characters of the time known as the 80's and turned the characters into a funny hour long TV Special. The Clay Animation is well done including the soundtrack using songs of the 50's and 60's including early 70's including "Cool Jerk".I highly recommend watching this overlooked cult fave!

RE Zuleta I love this Documentary film!!!! I remember watching it when it first aired in the Fall of 1988.It even spinned-off a mildly-popular, short-live cartoon show called: "The California Raisins [1989-90]," which continued the adventures of "Stretch, Red, A.C., and the bassist.The Documentary "Meet the Raisins" also spun-off a Sequel of sorts, titled: RAISINS SOLD-OUT: The California Raisins II [1990]."The sequel honestly wasn't as good as the original ....sequels hardly always are .... but it does share some goods parts here and there.

joelman Meet the Raisins!, a half-hour television special that showed in 1988 is quite possibly one of the most creative mockumentaries ever made. Produced in association with Atlantic Records, Meet the Raisins takes some of the greatest musical hits of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and makes them out to have been originally written and recorded by a band of raisins. Aside from this bizarre concept, the show features many creative characters such as Frederico Rasberrini, the Italian film director, and Rudy Beggarman, the band's stuttering agent. Hosting the show is a British carrot by the name of Cecil Thyme. The show goes on to spoof numerous films and songs and ends with one of the best musical numbers I can think of. It's worth checking out, if you can find someone who was smart enough to tape it, since you cannot buy it on video anywhere. Hint to Will Vinton, perhaps if there is a special Claymation Collected works DVD made, many other people will get to see this rare treat. 10/10