Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Good movie but grossly overrated

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Unusually for a Pixar short, Presto is a rather fast and frenetic cartoon.A magician is preparing for his stage show and has a nice juicy carrot for his rabbit.The rabbit is salivating but the magician is just teasing him with it. The hungry rabbit causes chaos with the show especially with the magic hats.Inadvertently with all the bedlam and the magician getting injured with the tricks going wrong, the show wows the audience.

Like I wrote in my comment of Pixar's latest short film Partly Cloudy (that is shown before Pixar's latest feature, he awesome Up), I do saw WALL*E on the big screen but for some reason Presto wasn't showed. Anyway, I just finally saw it and well no wonder why all the praise, Presto is certainly one of the best Pixar short films, maybe not my most favourite but is not very far to be that. 5 minutes of non-stop laughing, is Pixar's Bugs Bunny (when the rabbit goes after the carrot, that is on a table, after its master, the magician Presto, took it out of its cage for the show the rabbit looks quite like Bugs Bunny) very hungry and later still very hungry and also very angry and not at all cooperative with its master during the show. The audience will enjoy a quite unique and amazing magic show, quite painful for the magician though! You should enjoy this great piece of work! Wish I could saw this on the big screen before WALL*E, damn!

This is the second of five Oscar-nominated animated shorts I've watched from last year. It's from Pixar and was originally presented before their feature WALL-E which I have yet to see. A magician's bunny just wants a carrot but his master keeps taking it away from him so during the performance with the master on stage with his own hat and the bunny at the side hidden by curtains holding the sorcerer's hat that serves as the connection between where the magician's hand goes, the bunny does all kinds of tricks of his own on his master while the audience thinks it's all part of the act...Reminiscent of the wacky stuff done by Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Frank Tashlin in the '40s, Presto provides non-stop slapstick that gets more outrageously funny with each gag before the crescendo that satisfyingly comes. And dig the beginning logo credits done in the way they might have been if this short really was made during that Golden Age of animation. In short, Presto is magnifico!

This short film started just before the main Disney Pixar film at the cinema, WALL-E. Basically Alec the rabbit, that Presto stage magician will pull out of his magic top hat, has not been fed, and he refuses to go ahead with the act until he has eaten the near carrot. So whenever Presto reaches into his top hat, which the other side comes out of another little wizard hat, the rabbit makes him pull out something else in a little clever revenge on his co-star. Through the hat, Alec makes Presto bang his hand, pull out a mouse trap, an egg which splats in his face, suck his head in, pull his own trousers off and go up a huge ladder. Presto decides to smash the carrot, but Alec gets his own back by electrocuting him, until they go upstairs, and Presto accidentally hangs his feet up high, and it snaps. Alec saves him though with the hat, and he falls out the other side safe, a huge applause from the audience, and as a thank you for saving him, Presto gives the rabbit his carrot, and the poster becomes both of them together. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Short Animated Film (I think it should it won). Very good!