It's like a novel idea for a short film. But I grew out of the whole ACME slapstick routine when I was like 7. It's a weird thing where these low budget productions kind of rally around some egotists machismo. Like the premise is supposed to be that like the protagonist is down on his luck and he has to survive the North American winter wilderness...and yet dude is mostly naked and flexing 20 mins in. Which isn't even really that bad, but it just seems like a "look at me" move.
I don't know if I'm going to finish it. It's awesome to incorporate elements of cartoons in your film...like Ryan Johnson tends to do in his action sequences. And plenty of others. But to make a whole movie essentially a Wile E. Coyote bit...is just, not creative or entertaining. And that brings me to my next point.
Why is this movie getting good reviews? The animation is the best thing about this movie...and honestly, that's not very good. The plot is...beavers. Or more specifically people in beaver suits. Or really people in animal suits.
If someone I knew made this, I'd be like "omg! This is awesome" but just knowing that this was a group effort...with like funding... to like come together and rip off loony toons with animal suits, I can't really get excited about it.
Looks like they might have had fun making it though, so right on.
