"Robot & Scarecrow" is a British award-winning short film from 2017 that runs for 15 minutes and was directed by Kibwe Tavares and he is also part of the writing staff here. The genre "animation" listed here on imdb and the photo are a bist misleading to be honest because this is really more of a live action movie with many effects and a mix of fantasy and science fiction eventually. The thing I liked the most here was perhaps the soundtrack, the music is subtle and still good to listen to most of the time, especially in the second half. But while the film also looked really good, I was not too impressed with the story. The love element at the core of it all is one that never really impressed me here the way it was written and portrayed. The interest by the scarecrow early on was still fine, even if it included nothing than curiosity and the will to party, not really drooling even. Early on the scenes behind the scenes at the concert location where the female robot gets built together were also good, but it quickly goes south. The way in which the scarecrow eventually falls in love did not feel particularly touching or authentic and the other way around is exactly the same with the female watching the male through the fence. Honestly, the only thing that connects them really is that they are both different compared to everybody else. But I struggled with believing that this makes them the same. The filmmakers came a bit short to explain this connection to be honest and I did not really feel it from the romantic perspective. Shame. I really wanted to like it. So yeahn, like I said the visual and audible aspects are pretty convincing and technically, it is a good film, but it is also evidence how the story is always a bigger deal breaker than everything else and even 3 really experienced younger actors cannot make the difference I hoped they would. Kinda surprised they participated here actually as this does not seem like a huge project that would attract big names given the filmmaker's experience, but yeah maybe it was the story and idea that convinced them. I give it a thumbs-down though. Watch something else instead.
Review of Robot & Scarecrow
