This winning compilation of shorts by Mark Baker and Neville Astley includes kids’ favourites Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly, and darker, more adult-skewed material
This nicely programmed compilation of shorts – some directed by Mark Baker and some by Neville Astley and a bunch they made together – is a treat for two distinct constituencies. Animation buffs who know their early, slightly dark and adult-skewed shorts, such as Baker’s The Hill Farm and The Village and Astley’s Mobile Home, will be thrilled at the chance to catch these in proper cinemas for a change. Meanwhile, parents who are secretly sad their sprogs have outgrown Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, the series the duo created, can have a sly wallow with a few well-chosen episodes.
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This nicely programmed compilation of shorts – some directed by Mark Baker and some by Neville Astley and a bunch they made together – is a treat for two distinct constituencies. Animation buffs who know their early, slightly dark and adult-skewed shorts, such as Baker’s The Hill Farm and The Village and Astley’s Mobile Home, will be thrilled at the chance to catch these in proper cinemas for a change. Meanwhile, parents who are secretly sad their sprogs have outgrown Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, the series the duo created, can have a sly wallow with a few well-chosen episodes.
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- 9/10/2015
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Toy Story 3; A Town Called Panic; The Hammer and Tongs Collection; How to Train Your Dragon
With the arrival of Toy Story 3 (2010, Disney, PG), cinema (and now DVD) arguably has its first note-perfect trilogy. While Coppola lost the plot in The Godfather's third act, Kieslowski fumbled the ball with Three Colours: White and Jackson's The Two Towers (inevitably) sagged a bit in the middle, Pixar's bittersweet final outing with Woody and Buzz has all the poignant beauty of the last chapter of Winnie the Pooh. Remember that strange sensation (loss, elation, befuddlement) you got as Christopher Robin tried to explain to Pooh why he might not be coming back to the Hundred Acre Wood but Pooh would always have Piglet and Eeyore to play with? Well, prepare to shed those same tears again – all the more so if you're a grown-up who has long since put away childish things,...
With the arrival of Toy Story 3 (2010, Disney, PG), cinema (and now DVD) arguably has its first note-perfect trilogy. While Coppola lost the plot in The Godfather's third act, Kieslowski fumbled the ball with Three Colours: White and Jackson's The Two Towers (inevitably) sagged a bit in the middle, Pixar's bittersweet final outing with Woody and Buzz has all the poignant beauty of the last chapter of Winnie the Pooh. Remember that strange sensation (loss, elation, befuddlement) you got as Christopher Robin tried to explain to Pooh why he might not be coming back to the Hundred Acre Wood but Pooh would always have Piglet and Eeyore to play with? Well, prepare to shed those same tears again – all the more so if you're a grown-up who has long since put away childish things,...
- 11/14/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
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