Almost Home

This short consists of a bunch of very strange looking aliens bouncing from planet to planet looking for a new home. The leader (voiced by Steve Martin) is very funny because he takes credit for EVERYTHING--and when each planet turns out horrible, suddenly he's not responsible!

I found myself really irritated as I watched "Almost Home". After all, it had amazingly good computer animation and made me laugh. But, after really getting in to this short film, I felt like it was all just a giant come on when you realize it's less intended as a cartoon short and more just an ad for some upcoming Dreamworks release! For shame! Now I am not against the notion of using these characters in a future full- length film--they are cute and the character design was really nice. But the film just ends--without any sort of resolution or proper ending- -just a teaser for the longer film. To me, this showed contempt for the audience and they could have easily wrapped up the short instead of just having it end after four minutes!