Game Over

Probably one of my favorite pieces by PES. It has the same good quality trademark stop-motion animation that all of his films have, but we have moved from the table to the video-console of the 1980s. If you love or loved those primitive child-like super-addictive video-games and their brain-penetrating music, you will love this short. Well, not much story, the story is told in the few lines of the plot. A game in your video-console, where all the backgrounds and characters you know are there, but just reproduced by using daily-life ordinary objects and products. The images are full-on, with lots of action, and one of the most difficult pieces to assemble regarding the filming, I would say. The short is fun and charming, it really transported me to my childhood. It is too minutes long, but I think that is the right time for a video-game game! ha!

I have seen quite a few films by PES and I must say all of them have two major things in common--various household objects are used is VERY unusual manners using stop-motion AND they are all way too short. Now during the one to two minutes they are on, they are terrific--but still, they are only one or two minute films. Recently, I was surprised that despite the shortness of these films, one ("Guacamole") managed to receive an Oscar nomination! However, "Game Over" (which is probably better than "Guacamole") was not nominated--perhaps it just didn't qualify. Regardless, people who remember the early 80s will love this film, as it takes some old school video games and re-creates them using weird objects--such as sharks' teeth, flowers, candy corn and more. It is a truly innovative style and lots of fun...but too short.

This is one of the best shorts by PES I felt genuine tension and fear that Frogger would be run over Very hectic and fast paced just like a true arcade experience

a trip across old video games. good occasion of fascination about the art of PES and to remind old times. and this is the source of fascination . because it is a work of admirable master in stop motion wise use, creating a fascinating world , in which detail by detail becomes piece of a world with new and extravagant senses but, like in the art of Hieronymus Bosh, everything becomes plausible and normal. so, eulogy to old video games. in splendid manner.