Wow! Such a good movie.

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

This short was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. There will be spoilers ahead: It will take longer to write a review than it took to watch the short, which is less than two minutes. It's difficult to describe this and truly do it justice, but I'll try.This takes ordinary objects (and some not so ordinary) which bear some resemblance to the common ingredients needed to make guacamole-avocado, tomato, onion, chiles and so on and prepare guacamole.The most fascinating part of this for me is how, during the "preparation" of the "ingredients", an object used to represent a whole "ingredient" would change into another wholly different object once it was "cut" or "chopped".All in all, it's a clever, engaging and well crafted short with excellent use of stop motion animation It's well worth seeking out and is definitely recommended.

I have never tasted Guacamoles and so I was completely clueless about its ingredients while watching 'Fresh Guacamoles'. The 2 minute to-the-point short had a mystery hand preparing 'Guacamoles' in an unconventional manner using everyday objects like a light- bulb, ball, 2 chess pieces, poker chips... hand grenade ( not really an everyday object, is it?). I could make out how animator PES got his inspiration for a few items, such as the seed removed from the hand grenade which had the number seven on it and resembled a pool ball could be compared to the seven steps used in making the recipe (I counted the steps) or the slightly unimaginative idea of using chess pieces as salt and pepper holders ( could've been more imaginative: I got one that's a bit gross for such animation but nevertheless I'm gonna say it - dandruff for salt and grated incense stick for pepper!... My point is that further experimentation could've been possible). The avocado-hand grenade was more hard to guess because I haven't seen or touched avocados. The most interesting part was watching the dice getting diced further. I would not have been surprised had this won the 'Most Innovative Concept' award in some Annual Advertisement Award ceremony. In fact, such a concept can be highly useful for targeting children's market for some cereal ad. But when the word Oscar is associated with such a work, I'm slightly taken aback. There are lot many ingenious works on YouTube, one including a condom ad where rubber condoms are modeled (like balloons) into the form of two animals who... well, hump each other till the third one arrives and... joins the sex party! It's a crazy ad but you laugh out loud and it gets across its point. I would not think of that work as an Oscar worthy contender, and neither do I consider 'Fresh Guacamoles' to be one. While the stop animation used in the short is fantastic and I'm certain my friend, a student animator, would love this film and so would all others who are more aware of the effort going into such works, many common viewers would simply remark 'Nice. Is that it?'. The ending too does not do something adventurous to surprise us. Neither does the film do enough to tempt me to make the recipe myself. Fresh Guacamoles remains somewhat dry and unmemorable.Had this been an advertisement, I would have given it a 7.5. But looking at it as an Oscar nominated work ( Oscars really changes everyone's expectations) I shall give 'Fresh Guacamoles' for stars out of ten.

I just recently caught this mind blowing little short (and I do mean short..only 2 minutes)at a festival of Academy Award nominated short animated films. Despite the short running time, I laughed my a** off, big time. It's basically some kind of (very)surreal cooking show,where a pair of hands whips up a batch of Guacamole,using all kinds of household objects not associated with food. The results are pretty wacky (in a good way,of course). Veteran stop motion animator PES (who also did equal justice to cooking up a bowl of pasta in his earlier short, 'Western Spaghetti')weaves a few trippy moments of silliness (and also pulls down a cameo as the pair of hands) that some will get giggles from,others...probably not so (it depends on the grasp of surrealism). Not rated by the MPAA,but nothing to offend the staunchest of bluenoses

'FRESH GUACAMOLE': Three Stars (Out of Five) This 2 minute 2012 animated short film was nominated for a 2013 Academy Award. It was written and directed by PES and is about making guacamole from different objects around the house (that aren't edible), including dice and poker chips to name a few. PES also directed the 2008 critically acclaimed stop-motion short film 'WESTERN SPAGHETTI', about making spaghetti from different objects. Somewhat amusing and colorful but I don't know if it's Oscar worthy. As far as the animation goes I guess possibly so but there's no story here, it's just an animated cooking video with different objects.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6yq7kwUUDQ