To me, this movie is perfection.

the audience applauded

Good movie but grossly overrated

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.Chuck Jones deserves his status as one of animation's most legendary, greatest and most important directors/animators. He may have lacked the outrageousness and wild wackiness of Bob Clampett and Tex Avery, but the visual imagination, wit and what he did with some of the best-known and most iconic characters ever were just as special. 'The Dot and the Line' is the last of three Oscar/Academy Award wins for Jones, 'For Scent-imental Reasons' (one of Pepe Le Pew's best cartoons) and 'So Much for So Little' (more the appreciate than love cartoons for me) being the other two, of the three it's my personal favourite.It is not easy making something interesting, let alone sweet and romantic, out of Maths, which was always one of my least favourite subjects in school due to struggling to understand a lot of it. 'The Dot and the Line' does just that. The story is incredibly charming and touching, effective too in its simplicity and paced just right, not frenetic but never dull. Personally found the narration very pleasantly thoughtful and found myself learning a good deal. Robert Morley's delivery is nothing short of marvellous. Funny or hilarious 'The Dot and the Line' may not be, it isn't that kind of cartoon. Instead it is very educational but still managed the ideal balance of educating and entertaining.Animation is the more abstract style, for the story and that it deals with Maths and Geometry it suited the cartoon to a tee. It's simple but not cheap, with enough detail and colour to make it more appealing. Characters look very cute and are cute in personality too, it's not everyday where one cares for and develops an emotional attachment for shapes but it happens here. The music is a nice fit. Overall, beautiful and made me appreciate Maths more. 10/10 Bethany Cox

The date of release on this short subject cartoon was Dec. 31, 1965. It strikes me as an early cartoon look at computers and the logic of the digital age – well before their commercial time. It reminded me also of the Morse Code which had been invented in 1836 (and I studied as a youth and later in the U.S. Army). Of course, here the mathematics is all geometrics. And, hidden within the cartoon is social commentary, a moral of sorts."The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" is a splendid cartoon. It's from a story by Norton Juster. The humor of the dialog read by Robert Morley is quite good. It's a delight to watch the various contortions – like a child drawing lines and angles in a frenzy on paper. The line is the "hero" of this piece. He finally wins over the dot (the heroine?) when she sees through the unkempt and disheveled character of the squiggle. I could see variations on this pattern – a cartoon of dots and dashes. How about "binary beginnings." Or maybe, "logic bent out of shape?"It's a pretty sophisticated and somewhat educational cartoon. It won the 1965 Oscar as the best short (cartoon). I probably saw it in a theater originally, but saw it again a couple of times in recent years. It came as a bonus on my DVD of "The Glass Bottom Boat." I think most viewers will enjoy this artistic short. It's a cartoon that has more than one angle.

A line is in love with a dot but the relationship seems doomed--until the line learns he isn't quite as dull and "pointless" as he thought.While I don't know if this cartoon deserved the Oscar since it's hard to be a hold of older animated shorts and since the animation was so simple, but it is very clever and is probably a film that Geometry teachers would love and talk about and watch again and again!! While this sounds like I hated the film, I didn't--it just didn't thrill me and the idea seemed like it went on just a bit too long. However, because of its uniqueness and how it actually explains mathematical concepts in a fun way, it's a very good film. People that love the novel "Flatland" would also probably love this little film directed by Chuck Jones.

Experimental animators usually commit the mistake of thinking that experimentalism must be hermetical, non-objective, and abstract. Chuck Jones proves his point by making an animation film which brings characters and a storyline, but makes it look like a wild piece of experimental animation.Without sound, the film would look like wild moving pieces. It's the narration and the soundtrack who do the trick. Weird non-objective mathematically abstract images who become human-like characters just with a little voice and music. Brilliant.I'm personally impressed by this piece, since I saw it on TV as a kid, and instead of learning mathematics out of it, I decided to be an experimental animator. And I am one now :)