This short won the Academy Award for Animated Short. There will be mild spoilers ahead:
This short is a treat visually but the plot is thin as rice paper. Mr. Hublot is compulsive, reclusive type who takes in a robot dog only to discover that his decision severely alters his life. That's basically all there is here so far as story goes.
Visually beautiful cartoons are very nice and I could probably watch this a dozen times and still not see everything there is to see. But The Lost Thing is also a treat for the eyes and has a much more entertaining and interesting plot to boot. I'm not certain Mr. Hublot will hold up as well in ten years or so simply because there isn't very much to it beyond the visuals. Watching Mr. Hublot's routine is fascinating the first couple of times and the robot dog's growth is impressively alarming as well, but repeated viewing will not make this short any more entrancing than it is now. It may even lessen its charm.
I'm not surprised it won, though I would have preferred something else, such as Feral or Possessions. I knew neither of those would win though. I figured that if Get a Horse! didn't win that Mr. Hublot would.
The trouble is, while I will still be watching something like, say, The Man Who Planted Trees or Closed Mondays and marveling at them a decade from now, I don't think the same can be said for this charming but limited confection here. It's still quite good and well worth watching. Most recommended.
This short is a treat visually but the plot is thin as rice paper. Mr. Hublot is compulsive, reclusive type who takes in a robot dog only to discover that his decision severely alters his life. That's basically all there is here so far as story goes.
Visually beautiful cartoons are very nice and I could probably watch this a dozen times and still not see everything there is to see. But The Lost Thing is also a treat for the eyes and has a much more entertaining and interesting plot to boot. I'm not certain Mr. Hublot will hold up as well in ten years or so simply because there isn't very much to it beyond the visuals. Watching Mr. Hublot's routine is fascinating the first couple of times and the robot dog's growth is impressively alarming as well, but repeated viewing will not make this short any more entrancing than it is now. It may even lessen its charm.
I'm not surprised it won, though I would have preferred something else, such as Feral or Possessions. I knew neither of those would win though. I figured that if Get a Horse! didn't win that Mr. Hublot would.
The trouble is, while I will still be watching something like, say, The Man Who Planted Trees or Closed Mondays and marveling at them a decade from now, I don't think the same can be said for this charming but limited confection here. It's still quite good and well worth watching. Most recommended.