Mr. Hublot

MR. HUBLOT is a nominee for the Best Animated Short Subject for its year and it is an interesting and amusing silent cartoon. Judging by the movie's title, its makers are fans of Jacques Tati and his Monsieur Hulot.

Although Mr. Hublot -- the character, not the film -- lacks the slapstick skills which underlay Tati's films -- and hence is a little too serious to be terribly amusing with his realistically detailed agoraphobia and obsessive compulsive behavior -- the film's basic good story and its technically proficient animation certainly help maintain interest throughout. I greatly enjoyed the film, without feeling it should win the Oscar.

This shirt is completely deserving of the Oscar it won. The animation is out of this world and the twist ending give it a nice, satisfying wrap up of the whole story.

Mr Hublot is really a charming short film. It has a great central idea and character, the story is narrated well, it has a fabulous animation, great atmosphere and music, and a high dose of imagination. The general atmosphere, hues and quirks immediately brought to my mind the imaginative worlds depicted in some of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's films.

Mr Hublot captures with almost mathematical precision and even compulsion, the ticks, tweaks and quirks of Mr Hublot, an old guy suffering from OCD, and how his life changes when he shelters a street dog at home. His compulsive behavior, his obsession with order, time, and balance, and his compulsive doing things at a certain time in a certain way is really well captured and delightful to watch.

Perhaps because it won an Oscar, I expected something different or perhaps something more. Don't take me wrong, this is a very enjoyable short film that will put a smile on your face, but I thought that it wasn't especially original as the subject of exploring people with syndromes and rare disorders is already a mainstream theme in short films, and the aesthetics of the film are already familiar to the viewer. I don't want to rest merit to the short, because it does what intended to do, wonderfully well. It is just, that that it didn't speak to me as much as I would have wanted.

I don't know if you have played "Machinarium" or have you ever seen the "Breaking Bad" TV-series? I think Mr. Hublot is a combination of these two, how? let me tell you, this guy some how is a scrupulous man and as you see in the animation he is very meticulous and precise also he has some kind of obsession about simple normal life issues -for example turning the lights on and off for a distinct number of times-,Maybe he represents the new modern human which does not have enough time for rethinking about his habits. But always there is hope and turning back points. For Mr. Hublot it is when he starts to live with the street dog. He somehow starts to have an iron and robotic feeling and communication with the dog -I call it Machinarium Love-, he starts to see things different from how he saw them before. The spectacular scene is when he turns on the drill and you wonder No man Don't do that, then you see a very interesting and wonderful "Breaking Bad" from Mr. Hublot, That's his very turning point,wow he demolished whole the obsesses he confronted in his life. He destroyed the hollow house he had built and starts to construct a real new one. I enjoyed a lot and I hope you enjoy more.

I've heard some Oscar prognosticators say that the Academy might eschew the obvious (Disney's "Get a Horse!") and vote for this seemingly more original piece. Frankly, I didn't think it was all that original. It's a pretty basic animated short and isn't anywhere near as clever as "Get a Horse!" It's nice, though, and great to look at. A man in a futuristic, mechanical world notices a robot dog that has been abandoned outside his apartment. He adopts it, but it starts to grow too large for his home. As cute as dog stories are (my favorite animated short last year, by far, was "Adam and Dog"), my main thought about this one is "It's a robot dog. Why is it growing?" Still, this was the only one that garnered applause from the audience with which I saw it.