I cannot describe how much I am amused by this short film. Also, this film gives me a practical lesson how up and down are properly arranged for optimum effects.
A young alien, who seems like a freshman, tries to practice abducting human by the spaceship technology under the supervision of a predecessor, which is not going smoothly at all. Many funny moments are brought by the continuous failure. For instance, after a sequence of struggling, he gets impatient and flicks switches randomly on the spacecraft control panel, causing the sleeping man to crash into walls, ceilings, trees... Finally he gets the man out of window, but he dropped the man again. Then the up comes. His predecessor steps in, fixing everything in house in order and putting the human back to bed. Instead of taking over the control of panel, the predecessor gives him another chance. The young freshman manages to drop the whole spaceship on the human's house, before flying off. The scream from the abductee in the end gives me a last surprise, which is the point of this film I especially like.
Pixar short films are well known by the way it handles characters. The protagonist's expressive face and his predecessor's poker face intensify the amusement in a contrary way. Lifted is a great film for laughter, but it might fail in building vivid characters. After finish watching the film, audiences should have had emotional connection to the character, but audiences of Lifted might rarely think about the background or off-scene stories of either the clumsy freshman or the skilled predecessor. They are just there for entertainment.
A young alien, who seems like a freshman, tries to practice abducting human by the spaceship technology under the supervision of a predecessor, which is not going smoothly at all. Many funny moments are brought by the continuous failure. For instance, after a sequence of struggling, he gets impatient and flicks switches randomly on the spacecraft control panel, causing the sleeping man to crash into walls, ceilings, trees... Finally he gets the man out of window, but he dropped the man again. Then the up comes. His predecessor steps in, fixing everything in house in order and putting the human back to bed. Instead of taking over the control of panel, the predecessor gives him another chance. The young freshman manages to drop the whole spaceship on the human's house, before flying off. The scream from the abductee in the end gives me a last surprise, which is the point of this film I especially like.
Pixar short films are well known by the way it handles characters. The protagonist's expressive face and his predecessor's poker face intensify the amusement in a contrary way. Lifted is a great film for laughter, but it might fail in building vivid characters. After finish watching the film, audiences should have had emotional connection to the character, but audiences of Lifted might rarely think about the background or off-scene stories of either the clumsy freshman or the skilled predecessor. They are just there for entertainment.