What a waste of my time!!!

Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

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

Mind bogglingly animated tale of a world where people fly instead of sail, its tale of a navigator called into service after a tragedy only to find himself on a voyage of a life time.One of the best looking animated films,I've ever seen. This is a film filled with very Victorian and steam punkish images and contraptions. Its great to look at. The story about a man taking a job a a means of redemption and then having things begin to go wrong though no real fault of his own is the sort of things that make for grand adventure. I really fell in love with this film and by the time it was over found myself clamoring for if not a sequel (I want to see what happened next) at least another film set in the same world. One of the best animated short films in many a year.

This short, which was nominated for an Academy Award, is a form of stop-motion where the figures are primarily shot in silhouette to make them darker and to heighten the overall mood of terror and suspense. The technique is perfectly suited to the story being told, which has so many literary and cinematic influences that its hard to know where to begin.In addition to the more obvious suspects (Poe, Verne, Wells, et cetera) I would also add Bram Stoker and a sub-genre of Science Fiction/Fantasy called "steampunk", which Lucas himself has cited as an influence. Novels like The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and Lord Kelvin's Machine by James P. Blaylock (both highly recommended, though not as dark as Morello, if you like the basic idea of a high(er)-tech Victorian England) are excellent examples of "steampunk" and I would be a bit surprised if Lucas hasn't read at least one or both. The feel is certainly there.One warning: this is NOT a short for children, especially young children. There are at least two scenes unsuited for anyone younger than 12 or 13. This is available on an all-region DVD made in Australia. Most highly recommended.

It was a sunny day when I entered a theater to watch a series of animated films nominated for Oscars. This long and boring retro-sci-fi was the second movie, and it was grim and death-obsessed. The creator is talented at drawing, but has no ability to draw you into a story. He is a maker of moods, not a teller of tales. A captain, a navigator, and a scientist go on a voyage, and discover a creature that can, when cooked, cure a disease that is plaguing the land. Before they can carry the creature home, it eats everyone. It's a gloomy cartoon that seems never to end, and once it ends, it leaves you feeling empty.It was fashioned like a Jules Verne tale--it takes place in a 19th century milieu, but is filled with gadgets and contraptions that suggest a vision of the future past. Heavy machines laden with gears and dripping oil transport the travelers through the air. Everyplace they go floats in the air, like islands in the ocean. This would be nice if it were pretty, but it's all done in dark shadows, in an atmosphere filled with grime and dark clouds.

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello is absolutely amazing, and deserves a huge audience.The film is set in a world that resembles Victorian England, but different, in that giant mechanical airships are the main mode of transport. Jasper Morello is a navigator who undertakes a dangerous expedition into uncharted territory in order to escape from his plague-addled city. The film has a Jules Verne-like sense of wonder and imagination that is irresistibly appealing.The distinctive look of 'Jasper Morello' deserves the many accolades which will definitely follow in due course. The characters are rendered in layers of silhouettes, a look which must be seen to be fully appreciated. The design of the airships and of the world in which they float in is masterful.The combination of Victorian-era story and cutting-edge animation makes for an extremely enjoyable film, one that should be seen by both children and adults.