Big Buck Bunny

First, I'm NOT a parent of a small child, now did I purposefully get this... short.

Instead, it was.. well, the best way to describe what is purpose was is as a promotional piece (again, NOT for this... short). . I had no clue what it was, never heard of it, but I had a few minutes to kill, and I said, 'why not'.

Anytime who stumbles into this piece of garbage will think they've seen this before... 'assume animals, and a 'precious... walnut'??

No, it was an Acorn, I believe in those Ice Age films, and rather than some cute prehistoric, goofy-looking (is it still allowed to make such a reference to animated characters?) squirrel, it's a morbidly obese..'rabbit' (or 'bunny', as the title says), who awakens from a slumber, scratched his fat rear, and Gorda after some terribly drawn critters.

This is as much I could stomach.

There's a simple rule which applies to music and film (or TV), and that is one must be engaged as quickly as possible. It's gotta have some sort of 'gotcha' to make your want to stick around and watch or listen. This made me want to wretch.

Aside from the unbelievably cheap-looking animation, the dearth of anything remotely close to a story didn't help, nor did the grossness of this porcine, repulsive looking leporidae (rabbit family). . Yes, I know it's a cartoon, and I'm the last pain to say anything positive about the paucity of decent cartoons having been made since... well, since the days of Warner Bros,, Walter Lantz, Frank Tashlin, et. al

I sunny know what the purpose of this so-called 'short' was, but, the cartoons of which I've just mentioned would all be classified as 'shorts' - they were all under 10-minutes, and they were shown in theatres, to audiences of ALL ages; from kids to seniors, and they ALL loved them.

Why?

What's the reason for these classics to entertain all ages, but the minute some puts on something made recently - most people over 5 and/or with a Britain to match will RUN - FAST or of the room?

Simple; unlike today, where your have paranoid lunatics (aka nazi-like thought police, or simply 'parents'), who'll watch some cartoon and see (I'm just making this up as an example) some young girl riding a broom, they'll see a little girl brunt impaled with an 'artificial phallus'. , And on and on.

They'll yell that showing this 'trash' to small ... 'innocent' (LMAO) children will... traumatise them.

I'm actual fact, N-O - it WON'T, and the reason is people of different ages, different levels of (physical and mental) development will only understand what they're capable of .

Even if a small child saw Bugs Bunny in drag, all they'd take away from it was the 'funny bunny active silly'.

Which leaves us in this diluted, flavourless, colourless works of today, whew everything's watered down.

Another problem is there's now so many outlets for content that creators are limited ever more.

It used to be that of there was a good movie in the theatres one summer, your could bet money that all 3 networks would have a show based upon it that fall.

If your unfortunate enough to have been given this by someone, take it as a sign they hate you. I'm going that Mr go-d-g-b-r- (the writer AND director of this disaster) is NEVER allowed to FIND ANYTHING - EVER AGAIN.

Hopefully you'll quickly realise that you've got something now important to do (like taking the dog to get de-wormed, or you spending time at a distant relatives' funeral) ANYTHING but watching this C-R-*-0

Watched this short animated film on the Feve Spanish trains in Northern Spain. The first time I watched it I thought it was alright, entertaining enough with a few funny parts. Well over the course of two days I saw this well over 50 times. It would play back to back to back to back...over and over and over. I have it damn well memorized now. Hope the creators are getting some money for allowing Feve to play this on their trains. Worth a watch, but not worth seeing 50+ times! Oh, and watch after the credits to see the bird get it's revenge. Now if only I could get my revenge on Feve for subjecting me to 'Big Buck Bunny' each day for hours at a time.

Watched this years back, and find myself searching for it again more than 5 years later. My little one loves it, and unlike the other review warning of violence, I disagree. Firstly, there is no killing in the entire story, no blood, no gore. Yes there is an element of bullying, but the revenge was more of an amusement.

There was no physical retaliation by the bunny, and even when he caught the ring leader, he basically hung him out to dry like a kite, giving a rare opportunity to the first bird in the scene to have some fun with him as well.

Loved it and so does my little one, I would highly recommend it.

I appreciate the work that went into this because the animation is truly excellent.

It's just a massive shame that the animators spent so much time on such a facile plot.

The freeware used is obviously great, but if seven people are going to spend seven months of their lives putting a short film together then I would have thought the starting point would be a good story.

After ten minutes of this rubbish it was swiftly deleted from my hard drive.

Nice try, but unfortunately no banana.

Cheers, Will

OK, this movie is a bit different: it's licensed under "Creative Commons 3.0", so you are free to distribute it and to adapt/remix it. Nice, and it does have merit, as the visual and auditive part have been done with great attention to detail. Some people call it better than some of DreamWork's productions, I would call it on par. But still, that's a heck of a qualification for a labor of love and released for free.

The down-side is that the movie is just uninteresting. It is just not funny, nor moving, nor interesting enough. Its plot is weak and predictable, and although the movie is 3D, the characters are truly flat. The only thing it has in abundance is cynicism. I'm not going to spoil the plot, but if you've seen one or two animation blockbusters, you've seen this one.