Big Buck Bunny (2008): This short film has an impressive lead-in that is clearly Pixar-inspired. The background and lighting are stunning, but the storyline about "Big Buck Bunny" just falls on flat. As the saying goes "STORY IS KING" - apparently this short just doesn't seem to contain any. What is the point of a big dumb bunny chasing a butterfly out of curiosity and deciding to take "revenge" against the bad guys, the three squirrels (as shown at the bottom), which had killed a butterfly for no particular (albeit sadist) reasons . What exactly are the villain characters' motivations? What do they gain from teasing the big Bunny? All of these doubts are left unanswered in this 10-minute short.
Somehow, the norm for animations these days is to be "Pixar-esque" (see the "A Bug's Life"-inspired title above), to the extent that Big Buck Bunny seems to have blatantly ripped off the design of the unimportant, side character of the bird from Pixar's "For the Birds (2000)" short. See screencap:
You might mistake this bird to be from one of Pixar's classic short film. When juxtaposed with the bird, the bad guys just look plain, uninspired and bland; with their big squinty-eyed conveying merely a hint of soullessness and retardation:
My rating for Big Buck Bunny (2008): 5/10. Completely disappointing flat storyline and characters; props to the modeling, background and lighting crew for making an impressive set.
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