What the heck is 'larded with'?

Larded is a pretty standard literary (and cooking) term.

In this context, it means it has slivers of animation tucked in throughout the film.

That quick response is the correct answer indeed. I just found and watched the trailer online a minute ago.


It's not a completely animated film. It has apparently has snippets of animated clips between the regular live action scenes.

Now I actually hope to find a copy of the film with English subtitles. It's a Brazilian film (in Portuguese I presume).

There is another literary sense - covered with - but it doesn't seem to make quite as much sense.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardon

I've always been too lazy to go hard-core, putting lardon on a thread. I have used the simpler approach - cutting slivers in the meat, and tucking tiny pieces of lardon in.

Cooking techniques and film references in one thread - that's awesome (given that it doesn't seem to be a film about cooking )

That's why a2k is such a great place. It really is unpredictable what you're going to run across in a given day.

Full Definition of LARD
1
a : to dress (meat) for cooking by inserting or covering with something (as strips of fat)
b : to cover or soil with grease
2
: to augment or intersperse especially with something superfluous or excessive <the book is larded with subplots>
3
obsolete : to make rich with or as if with fat

I associate this directly with Paula Deane - the older version before she tried to be healthy.

So larded with I would think is fatten up sort of with not good stuff but yucky yellowing lard a$$ sickenly fat crap.

So I view it as a negatively overdone crappy animations -- not in a positive way at all.

It may not be the intent -- but that is exactly what I envision.