"Granpa" is a British animated short film from 1989, so this one will soon have its 30th anniversary. The writer and director of this book-based movie is Emmy nominee Dianne Jackson and it runs for 35 minutes according to imdb, but I guess this includes a great deal of commercials as it is about 10 minutes shorter. It's the story of a girl listening to her grandpa's narration. I guess how much you enjoy this one will come down to ho much you like the animation and I personally didn't appreciate the style. The problem is not that it looks much older than it actually is, but it's all down to personal preference. As a consequence the story never really dragged me in either and even Sir Peter Ustinov, a 2-time Academy Award winner, voicing the title character in the later stages of his career left me relatively unimpressed here despite me usually liking him. Also felt that content-wise and plot-wise there is way too much in here for this brief runtime, so it does feel a bit rushed at times. The music is okay I guess. As a whole, judging from the imdb rating and the number of voters, this one may have a bit of an underseen tendency to it, but I personally would not really agree here. I think you may want to skip it as this is one that is really just for the very small ones and watch something else instead.
Review of Granpa
