The story of "The Chubbchubbs!" is a cute one, the animation is pretty solid and the voice-acting and singing aren't too shabby either, but somehow something was missing to make this slightly-under-six-minute short film really memorable for me. I have to say I am a bit surprised this actually ended up winning the Oscar for best animated short film in a year that had competition from Japan, Poland, Germany and Pixar's Monster movie franchise. Maybe they really liked these little chicken-like creatures or the Star Wars reference. However, I thought the whole foreign planet idea or the constant crashing of the main character into the bar singer was just executed in a rather shoddy fashion and never really had me on the top of my seat. I'd only recommend this one to animation lovers. Everybody else is not missing too much.
Review of The Chubbchubbs!
