Newbies working on a short that has one line of dialogue and
very little facial expressions and it doesn’t suck!
This is a classic story told in what I think is a fresh
way. You have an underdog that’s sneered
at by everyone who uses their quirky looks and/or behaviour to save the day and
earn the others respect. In this case it’s
a clock that runs slow and has a silly ringer that toils the hours. I love the little guy banging the bells and dropping
his pants it reminds me of the cuckoo clocks from Geppetto’s workshop in Pinocchio,
and heck considering many of the current employees at Disney love the classics
including John Lasseter I wouldn’t be surprised if the sound effects for the
clock are reused from that film as an homage.
The physical comedy of the clock trying to remove the ringer
is great and I love the angles used for those antics it really helps give the
clocks personalities in new ways since they’re aren’t anthropomorphized with the
usual things like eye’s, eyebrows, and mouths.
I was genuinely shocked when the grand hero moment of the
clock using its slow run time to alert the cop to the robbery taking ended with
it getting stomped on by the burglar, but of course it all ends happily with
the clock getting repaired and all the others clapping for that brave act of
heroism.
I really like this short I thought it took an old story and
did something fresh and new while still keeping that personality driven core
that Disney does so well. For being done
primarily by new people I think the really highlighted their skill for comedy
and drama especially on non-traditional character designs.
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