Oktapodi

a small animation about love.not great, far to be memorable , but amusing, nice, lovely.a sort of gem without great ambitions but useful for few moments of free time. action, feelings and high perseverance. and the Greek air. all in the music sauce. it is one of the films who seduce. not exactly for story itself but for the grace of details, for rhythm and for crazy run. for the remember of old images and for unconventional subject. a fresh air. more about Greek spirit than the octopus love. an interesting work , not perfect but good for the manner to use the short time for present the story. so, a not bad choice for fun.

An octopus in a shop loses his partner when she is plucked from the tank and loaded for shipment. The octopus gives chase through the Greek town in order to rescue her.

A very short film this one in the mould of Pixar animations. The computer animation looks good even if it does owe a debt to that studio in terms of what it does and the story allows for the delivery of a good run of chuckles and action. I did think it was just a little too short and that I could have done with a bit more edge or reference in the humour (if ever a sequence was crying out for a Raiders of the Lost Ark reference, it is the fight in the cab here) but it was still amusing and had a good firm ending. The music is a little obvious and I wasn't really loving it with its obvious Greek soundtrack, but the action on-screen mostly distracted me from it.

Fans of the Pixar shorts will enjoy this as it mostly shares qualities with those, despite being not quite of that standard. Amusing and looks good though.

Nicely fit with a violin playing on the background; Oktapodi offers a fast paced, very well crafted short animation. It has the style of the famous "Coyote & Road Runner series" of Warner Bros:

1/ Full throttle in action and humour 2/ No dialogue based script 3/ Excellent coordination between character movements, voice-overs and sound effects 4/ Follows the beats and notes of the playing instruments to transform action into humour

Oscar nomination is very well worthy. In my opinion, this could've been won the Oscar if:

1/ Octopuses haven't been urged on like dolphins jumping out of water or like grasshoppers hopping between locations 2/ Octopuses could've been more real-like, more ugly, more dirty, more clammy, more thick-skinned 3/ The rat race could've been more outlasting

Viewable by all ages -especially children- , watchable on Youtube and downloadable on KickYoutube; Oktapodi is noteworthy.

The animation here is not perfect; not something comparable to what the preeminent studios do. However, take into consideration that it is from a Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image graduate student and we are left speechless. A cute love story with tentacles, ink, chase, slingshotting, and Greece.

Regardless of merit (which is most definitely there), this short film includes two of my favorite things: Octopuses and Santorini. Then again, the word octopus does come from Greek, and the plural for octopus in Greek? Octopodes.

So this was an oscar nominee. But it's very unlike other oscar nominated shorts I know about. It is not a serious film. It's just that it is enjoyable.

I like it because it's really well made. The stunts were more realistic than full length action films. But the scenes of octopodes jumping from one pool to another, a bit too over the top.

Best thing about it is it's length. It's very short(only two minutes long). There is not a single second of time waste. Anyway, it's a good film but I doubt if I am going to remember it for a long time.