Popular reviews

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  Review by Evan B ★★

  loved the animation and the rich sense of environment, but the dialogue and narration realllly make sure you understand the story in a way that’s quite overt. the obvious message about self acceptance is well-intentioned (?) but ultimately falls into an ableist trope that places fault on disabled individuals themselves rather than criticizing an outer society that renders them disabled by failing to accommodate their bodies. a real solution would be for ppl to build a plane with a better reflective viewing system for Henrietta to fly, not for Henrietta herself to uhh.... magically sprout wings out of her hunched back 🥴 I can see how that ending could be interpreted as something inspirational (the film is intent on making sure I do) but the choice did NOT sit well with me, and the more I think about it, the more problematic it becomes

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  Review by 🎄Eggnog Lee Ambrose🎄 ★★½

  Part I of IV of the 2020 Oscar’s Honorable Mention Animated Shorts

  You could remove all the superfluous narration in this short film and we would’ve gotten just as much out of the story as without it. However, it’s got fantastic animation, good intentions, yet, some seriously goofy and indecisive writing. Meh. 

  🤷‍♂️ Verdict: 2.5/5

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  Review by 🌻 lindsay 🌻

  I don’t know about this one. It was interesting and I think it was trying to have an important message but it didn’t work for me very well. It felt misguided and the ending was... weird.

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  Review by Brett Schutt ★★

  It looks pretty but with hammy narration telling you every emotional beat and an ending that had me going, “huh?” Instead of feeling anything- I didn’t care for this one as much.

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  Review by Ethan ★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  The wings being so small just bugs me a lot more than it probably should.

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  Review by Andrew Smith ★★★

  Baby got back

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  Review by Noraa ½

  I hated this

  Also ACAB

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  Review by Ryan D. ★½

  Part of the “highly contested” shorts they showed us so our $8 ticket would feel justified.

  Yeah this was bad, felt a lot longer than 16 minutes and it feels almost condescending to anyone with an actual disability. Tries way too hard and isn’t worth anyone’s time.

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  Review by Robin

  I don't think they were large enough?

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  Review by GrooviestPine ★

  52 Films by Women, 2020 edition, entry #4:

  The Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts program used this and a few other non-nominated shorts to pad it out to feature-length, and I'm extremely glad this didn't make the final cut. It's a load of noxious, maudlin, condescending, ableist horseshit, playing like a parody of the sort of short film that typically attracts Oscar attention.

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  Review by Vivian

  literally shocked this wasn’t an advert for something

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  Review by myles ★½

  “When she started building the plane all I could think about was her using it to do 9/11” -Ryan