Clik Clak

I really enjoyed all the movies we have watched the last couple of weeks, but I think my absolute favorite had to be Clik Clak. Clik Clak was absolutely adorable. I admit, I have a huge love for robots (which is why I love Transformers and WALL-E), and the robots in this film were adorable. The animation was pretty spectacular, and it showed how to work with the little they had - using robots as the main characters, a simple design for the child, and a lack of definite background. This coincides with the blog we had to read that talked about not trying to make your shorts Pixar quality - Clik Clak was not overly ambitious, but they did a lot with what they could do well.

BAH THEY ARE SO ADORABLE

 What I think I loved the most about it was the imaginitive world it was in. Robots speaking through making noises, often through fantastic looking Rube Goldberg machines. The sentences were mostly nonsensical French (the little French I knew came in handy; thank you middle school!), but the noises actually sounded like the words! Who thought of that? Whoever did was amazing. In the end, though, it was super bittersweet, since the one robot died...and then the other committed suicide. The boy made another machine that expressed his apology, since he did unintentionally cause the death of the first robot. It was handled in such a way that a child audience could understand, but I still thought it was really sad. Appropriate, but sad. However, I get really emotional over things some other people would not.