Greetings, readers, and welcome to the Short Short Review, where I’ll attempt to review a short film or story in a really short number of words. This week, I’ll be reviewing Pixar’s For the Birds in exactly 327 words as the film is 3 minutes and 27 seconds long.
For the Birds was originally released in 2000 alongside Monsters, Inc and won the Academy Award for Best Short Film in 2001. The film tells the story of a number of small birds, a big bird and a wire. Describing the story any more really spoils it so I’m just going to talk about the awesomeness of these birds.
The little birds resemble little feathery balls and make the most adorable squeaking sound. Both the sound and the animation give off a cutesy but irritating vibe from these critters. The big bird looks big and dopey and sounds like a car horn. The electrical wire is well… a wire. Now onto relevant review stuff!
The animation in the film is fantastic for the time period. You can see every single feather individually moving on the birds and the beak animation is amazing. It’s easy to see why they paired this film with Monsters, Inc. because many of the same animation details that are used in For the Birds appear in Monsters, Inc. except with fur instead of feathers.
On the other side of the presentation, audio, the film shines. The soundtrack composed by the band Riders in the Sky is comical, but yet at the same time sets the mood for the simple road and electrical wire setting of the film. As mentioned previously, the sound effects are also outstanding. From the squeaks, to the wind, to the squawks, the sound editing is top notch.
Overall, I’d give the film four and a half feathers out of five, because the other half of the feather fell off somewhere in the process of writing this short short review. Fin.
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