Let's Pollute

'LET'S POLLUTE': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

A spoof on educational cartoons from the 50's and 60's, this Oscar animated short serves as a satire on why it's important to pollute and how it's good for our economy and helps corporations. It's directed and written by Geefwee Boedoe and written by Boedoe, Tim Crawfurd and Teddy Newton. It's narrated by Jim Thornton. The film is hysterical at times and in a backwards comedic way is educational as well. The animation isn't anything appealing or advanced but it's nostalgic and true to the animated films it's spoofing. Even at 6 minutes it does get a little long and become sort of a one joke film but it mostly works and is humorous for most of it's running length.

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I saw this as part of special presentation of all the Oscar nominees(plus some titles that didn't make the cut but were still "well commended) in this category. This is probably the worst cartoon in the bunch. I assume that it was nominated mainly due to its liberal slant. Centuries of human civilization are belittled as nothing more than a bunch of pollution. Corporations are similarly maligned as polluters. Seem fairly black and white for an ideology that so often loves to dwell on the "grayness" of things. What about the civilized people and the corporations who help make movies like this? Are they nothing but polluters too? What do the makers of this movie want? Should everyone just go live in a cave or something? I really hope this doesn't win. Conserve your own resources-financial or otherwise- but not seeing this garbage.

This. nominee for the Best Animated Short Subject Oscar seems to owe that honor to its pro-environmental stance, its hatred of corporations and the shortage of decent competitors. It may wind up winning anyway -- so many people who are paid millions of dollars by corporations to make technological artifacts like movies in which there are many explosions are always anxious to prove how concerned they are about the important things, like slagging Western Civilization. Meanwhile, I'm hoping THE LOST THING will win, but the Pixar and Plympton efforts are also excellent.

The thesis of this short, stated baldly, is that we waste things and would be better off if we didn't. It is an unexceptionable truism. The anger that suffuses this work makes it pall quickly -- half a minute would be enough. This sort of satiric work says nothing but that the people who make it hate other people.

This cartoon short purports to be a public service video extolling the virtues of polluting and wasting resources. It claims to be encouraging the audience to destroy the planet because 'it's cool' and makes its point in a strange way.

I must tell you up front that I disagree with the central message of this film. Through clever parody, it contends that machines and industrialization are 100% evil--an incredible oversimplification to say the least! Now I must say, they make their message in a very funny way but its lack of balance distressed me a bit (I got the impression that living like the Flintstones was their goal and modern life is bad....huh?!).

So despite its black & white view of industrialization is it good? Well, I liked the style and the very simple animation style, though not nearly as nice looking as the other Oscar nominees for 2011, was effective.

Perhaps, and I think this will ruffle a few feathers, this was nominated less for its quality and more for its trendy message. I really did NOT dislike the movie, but it was definitely the least of the nominees in so many ways.

UPDATE: I was surprised, but just moments ago I saw that "The Lost Thing" won the Oscar for Best Animated Short. To me, this was a surprise!

It's no stranger that once upon a time,all our civilization was started back when Pollution is KING! But,no,with the awaken of the people's Mind about Pollution cause to human health and environmental,this Short takes us back to the 60's Where Pollution is still King,and it's not really made in 60's But made in modern times as a short to satirize those who pollute a lot,using backwards thought that tells us about Pollution,we Will convert the shorts's meaning about it and translated into the backward thought,and our answer:although we might use well with Pollution,but it's also use so bad,so this satire,you'll see how this Pollution King could do,when the environmentalists cannot ignore the lesson,No waste o' time,backward your thought from this Short,Pollution is no good,Watch this Short and start to stop Pollution as ya can!