Visitors Review

heywood100 (2012-05-25 21:59)

Fantastic

Another early short from Aardman Animations of the Wallace and Gromit andChicken Run films. This one is something of a fantastic oddity - all itinvolves is a very large jawed man playing the 'she loves me; she lovesmenot' game with flower petals. At first he simply becomes a littledepressedwhenever he reaches 'she loves me not', but soon he is desperately havingtoavoid death from numerous angles. Even when he reaches 'she loves me' hehasto dodge huge flying kisses. As usual, Aardman have made a brilliantanimated short here - it's both humorous and looks great.

bob the moo (2012-05-25 18:48)

Funny and imaginative

A suave young man is in love with an image in a picture frame. To find outif the love he feels is reciprocated he picks a flower and, in the timehonoured fashion, proceeds to pick a petal off saying `loves me' or `lovesme not'. He continues this despite the pain of the flower – but then theemotion of loving or not loving manifests itself to him in surprisingways.The story here allows for all sorts of things to happen animation-wise. Each time the man picks a `loves me' petal he is treated to something nice,however each time the `loves me not' petal comes off, his fate is a littleless pleasant. This allows the film to imagine some humorous things tohappen to the man – my favourite being him fighting off his own hand, whichholds a gun to his head, as he tries to pick the `loves me' petal! The filmbuilds nicely and it is a good, if predictable, climax.The animation looks basic at first as it is two characters (including theflower) against a quite ordinary (dare I say – plain!) background. Howeverthe more extreme the events become the more the animation comes into play. I felt this justified the decision to keep a plain background as it made thesudden entry of things (good and bad) into the shot that much more immediateand evident.Overall I must admit to not liking all of Aardman's work outside of theirmainstream stuff like Wallace & Gromit, but I did enjoy this. It seemed topromise little from the start but came off as a well delivered, amusinglittle short.