How sad is this?

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Seminal, Influential, InspirationalI saw a clip from this short film in the very early 80s on an edition of the BBC documentary show "Horizon" that dealt with the nascent computer animation industry.I was truly stunned by it and decided that computer animation, whatever it was, was the thing that I wanted to do with my life. The images in the piece have stayed fresh in my mind ever since that day.25 years or so later that's exactly what I am doing! These days it is so easy to churn out incredible images, but this film really achieved something special with a medium so difficult to use at the time that most of the practitioners had degrees in rocket science!