Shyness

I've seen this cartoon a few times. It's cute and worth watching. Nothing too terribly special here, but any cartoon where the hunchbacked assistant is named Trevor deserves some comment! This is a National Film Board of Canada animation, which virtually guarantees it's worth watching.

This is yet another film sponsored by The National Film Board of Canada, though the film is totally different from all the many other films I've seen from this organization.

In this film, Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant, Trevor, are apparently in a business where they custom make monsters. However, something is amiss with their latest job--the monster doesn't act menacing or evil. Trevor suggests that the monster is just stupid, but the nice doctor realizes that the brain they used just came from someone who is very, very shy. Then, listening to the Doc talk about how an inferiority complex develops (it sounds a lot like a Psyc 101 lecture) is pretty funny--though once again, Trevor just thinks the thing is stupid and wants to use the brain for cat food! These are the sort of weird interchanges that occur throughout this wacky cartoon--one that can easily be enjoyed by kids or adults. While the animation is only so-so, the writing and comedy is spot-on--making this well worth seeing and fun.