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Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

A Disappointing Continuation

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The animation style was very much like the illustrations from a child's book with simple lines, yet unique characteristics as well as colourful and eye-catching. The use of gibberish dialogue forces the viewer to perceive the dynamic between the three characters strictly by action, which was well utilized in this short. The use of objects such as the hat and cleaning tools was a clever way to express the arguments and resolution.This is more a story of the arguments of two generations (grandfather and father) trying to raise another generation, the son, in different ways that they both think to be the better, with the son eventually finding his own way of interpreting tradition. Working the theme of next generational contention though a child-like contemporary folktale worked well with the moral being expressed.A great little animation that kids and adults can appreciate.

One can be misled when one reads a lot of glowing reviews for a short film and in this case it is best not to raise your expectations too high based on the very good reviews on this site. For sure this is a nice short film with heart and imagination, but it is not the opening 10 minutes of Up nor anything like it. On one hand we have a coming of age story and on the other we have a rather imaginative story set in space. This mix is an odd one and it doesn't totally work as either if I am honest – although it does do well enough as both to a certain extent.The situation is a bit too obvious in how it spells how the "different paths" the boy can take and how he could also take his own – it was obvious to the point of detracting a little bit from the content, because I felt it was not as clever as it could have been. The moon based stuff is quite charming though and I liked it as an idea, although again the link to the coming-of-age aspect was a bit too spelt out, almost as if the film doubted my ability to get it and thus overcompensated for my stupidity with heavy visual indicators.It still looks very nice though and has a warm charm to it; shame it wasn't a little bit more subtle with it though.

We saw the movie "Brave" on DVD and this short film, "La Luna", is on the DVD as an extra. We had no idea it was there, or what it was, but I usually enjoy at least browsing the extras to see if I can find anything interesting. My wife usually leaves when I do that, but she stuck around for this one.The good thing about a film short, especially one as brief as this one, is you don't have any chance for character development, you basically see a small slice of something. Here the "slice" is a young boy taking his first boating adventure at night with his dad and grandpa.As the scene begins all we see is the three people in the small boat on the water at night. Then in dramatic fashion the giant moon rises. At that point I commented "look how great the colors are." Then the story really begins.The rest contains SPOILERS so you may not want to read further if you have not seen it, but it is a very pleasant short film. Totally fantasy, but enjoyable to watch.As the moon rises up into the sky the boat stops. The men pull a tall ladder from a hatch in the front of the boat, pointing it towards the moon. They give the boy a small anchor on the end of a rope, he fastens it around his waist, then climbs to the top, almost able to touch the moon. He throws the anchor, and climbs onto the moon, its surface littered with small, yellow glowing star-shaped objects that have accumulated there. Maybe it is supposed to be star dust. The three of them proceed to sweep up the little stars, when a larger one crashes into the surface. The boy climbs to one point, then hits it with a little hammer, and it all crumbles into the smaller ones. They finish their job and climb back down to the boat and we see the moon is no longer "full" but only a crescent where the bright little stars have been swept to.

La Luna is the CGI short which accompanies Pixar's Brave. As always, there is a thematic link with the main picture: in this case it is to do with coming of age and bridging the generation gap.Papa and Nonno take Bambino out in the boat at night for the first time to help them carry out their work (he is given his first work hat). I will say no more about what that work is: that would spoil a number of surprises.The dialogue is cod-Italian, and the music is gorgeous. This charming, gently humorous little film is stunningly beautiful, and has a couple of quiet "Wow!" moments in it. I loved it.