Overrated

Good concept, poorly executed.

good back-story, and good acting

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The first impression of this movie was I already had feeling that it would become a funny movie. And I was not wrong. The film about two aliens working together in order to lift a human up to their UFO (Unidentified Flying Object) is brilliant. First of all, I like how they portrayed aliens as green slime like creatures. Not to mention they are irresistibly cute as well. The small alien is my favorite. He probably has no talent to be what aliens are supposed to be, but he would never stop trying. The human who is going to be lifted is so unrealistic in my opinion, but that is what makes this film more interesting in the first place. This film is only five minutes, and I recommend you to watch it.

'Lifted' was an absolutely hilarious story. I loved it to bits. It was quite unexpected and I think Pixar said more with no dialogue than many others. The short was cute and funny, but also unpredictable. I didn't really expect the aliens to appear or for the aliens to have some kind of exam that involved kidnapping humans. The way they filmed it, the way they made it look like it is a very complicated process. The amount of knowledge that poor alien had to have about all the buttons and switches made me empathize with him so much. I felt bad for him, the test he had to take and about his strict instructor. I was very happy when the supervisor helped him at the end. It was a very nice ending. I wished it was a bit longer. I would have liked for it to be a bit longer.

"Lifted" is a short about aliens trying to abduct someone but failing over and over due to the complicated ship controls. It started of funny, but the joke got old quickly for me, and I liked the 'cold' alien boss more than the goofy alien protagonist that i was supposed to like. The ending joke was also quite predictable. Great animation, as expected, that might make it worth the watch anyway, but in my opinion, one does not miss much by not watching this short.

This is probably Pixar's weakest short films. Every Pixar short has one of these three qualities - It can be cute or it teach us something or atleast funny. But this film did not has any of the three. And that's why I didn't like it.