This animated short film succeeds at creating a modern tale with a Beatrix-Potter feeling, and a philosophical life lesson.
The film uses a mix of stop motion animation, normal filming, and digital manipulation to create a charming traditional tale and animation movie that brings to life the three possums and other animals in the story. It remeinds me, in a way, of the animation in the series Minuscule.
The story seems taken from an old folk tale or Aesop book, but it is actually quite modern. The story begins with a father telling his kids a tale about the horrid humans, and then provides an A-Z ways of being killed by a human. The film has a moral, in this case a philosophical lesson, that is universally valid -- crap happens, even when you know it is coming and you prepare against in advance, life is unpredictable. Also you cannot live in fear or stop doing what you want for fear of something bad will happen to you. The moral lesson is mostly given to adults, even though this film seems directed to kids.
Very charming.
