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User Rating:
8.1/10   3,117 votes
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Director:
Gary Rydstrom
Writer:
Gary Rydstrom (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
29 June 2007 (USA) more
Genre:
Animation | Short | Family | Sci-Fi more
Tagline:
Failure is an option.
Plot:
A teenage alien tries to abduct a sleeping human, but with so many switches to do so, it's nearly impossible. | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Top Ten: Pixar
 (From FilmExperience. 31 May 2009, 2:50 PM, PDT)
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 (From Comicmix. 26 September 2008, 3:57 PM, PDT)
User Comments:
Puppetering more (15 total)

Additional Details

Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parents
Runtime:
5 min
Country:
USA
Language:
None
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.78 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:G | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Germany:o.Al. | UK:U
Company:
Pixar Animation Studios more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The voice of Mr B comes courtesy of Gary Rydstrom's dog. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) (TV) more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Puppetering, 11 September 2007
Author: ruiresende84 (ruiresende84@gmail.com) from Porto, Portugal

You will watch this short in the theatre before the beginning of Ratatouille. And it's very well placed, since it indicates much of the theme that drives Ratatouille. An artist puppeteering an instrument in order to create his art.

This short may be understood as a synonym for the work of an animator. Really really hard to manage, check out the number of buttons in the board of the spaceship. It's hard to learn the job, and while you don't master it, all you do will be a disgrace. But if you get to do it well, you'll do wonders. You'll puppeteer the world below, create and destroy, move and control.

These small appointments (not necessarily short films) are interesting to me because they are explicit indications pointing on how each creator comes out with his own originality and my opinion is, the creations reflect usually every stuff which is very close to the creator, usually his own thoughts and life (It's the second time in a short time i identify these signs, the other was with Miyazaki's Kiki).

The funny thing is when the construction, no matter how simple it is, is honest in its origins, works out very effective, so this short is really really funny.

My evaluation: 4/5

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