The Box

Just watched this Oscar-winning animated short directed by Fred Wolf on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew. It's basically the story of an old bearded man sitting at a bar drinking with a box on the counter. First a man and then a woman have drinks with this bearded man as they try to find out what's in the box. Both times-after a few minutes-the bearded man allows each one to look in the box with neither pleased to have found out and with both leaving indignant. Then another woman arrives...Scored with just drums, The Box is an amusing animated short with an ending that may make you think if the bearded man is who one may think he is. This director Wolf (who is different from a recent former SNL writer with the same name), I've recently found out, is the same person who made those "Puff the Magic Dragon" specials with Burgess Meredith as the voice of Puff as well as the feature film The Mouse and His Child which I reviewed last fall. All of those I mentioned were pretty enjoyable and so it is with this short. So on that note, I recommend The Box.