If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

I think that it is a pleasant film.In this film, there are two characters. One is "the day". The other is "the night". It is an interesting idea.The character's motion is very funny.I liked the cute characters.The speed of the story is fast. I liked this point, too.I was absorbed in the development of the film. I could watch this film being excited very much.At the last scene, two characters become friends.I could have a happy feeling after watching the last scene.

This may also be the question that the Academy asked themselves when they picked Australian entry "The Lost Thing" over Pixar's "Day & Night" for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short that year. On the technical level, it really doesn't get much better than "Day & Night". The animation is brilliant, it's fast, it's witty and it oozes creativity. But I just felt it wasn't emotional at all and even the scenes where Day and Night were sad or happy about what they (not) experienced weren't really emotionally investing like previous Pixar short films, such as the very early "Red's Dream". It just lacks almost completely the charm that Toy Story 3, the film with which it was shown together in theaters, was so full of.Nonetheless, it's a pretty interesting take on life (or lack thereof) during day and night and the two protagonists, after initial disdain, quickly get curious about what happens during the other's time of the day. This includes casinos, butterflies, attractive women, fireflies, fireworks and many more. Finally they manage to find a way to see each other's marvels and the fusion sequence is quite a thing of beauty. A must-watch for animation lovers and an entertaining six minutes for everybody else too.

Day and Night is a hilarious short and I would say one of Pixars best shorts yet,for a change instead of the usual computer animation this is shown in 2-D (with some computer animation as well)which is an enjoyable change for Pixar.Day,a guy whos inside of his body is daytime and Night,a guy whos inside of his body is night time don't get along very well and try to get each other jealous by showing what there time has and what there one hasn't,for example,Day has a girl at the beach in a bikini and when Night tries it,it just shows a queit dark beach with no one there,simply hilarious.

Day & Night THIS is why I love Pixar's imagination and storytelling techniques mixed with the best technical product they can offer. They take 3D animation and make a movie entirely about very traditional looking, 2D flat characters--the 3D is the landscape seen through their silhouettes, the action is all two dimensional against black. Honestly amazing and original.Unfortunately, Pixar's shorts are so successful in my mind precisely because they rely on telling a story without dialog, usually utilizing sound for comedic effect instead. This time they just had to go and insert a message stated directly to the viewer right into the movie, instead of presenting their message in its own way. I think the whole radio moment could have been completely edited out, and they go right on into the sunrise/sunset juxtaposition that was so much more creative and beautiful.--PolarisDiB