"For the Birds" is a three-minute movie from 15 years ago and therefore one of Pixar's shortest and earliest efforts. It won an Oscar in the Animated Short Film category and fittingly the director behind it is named Ralph Eggleston, who also worked as a voice actor here. Surprisingly, after his Oscar win, Mr. Eggleston changed from animation department to art department in the animation sector for most of his following projects. We see a group of restless angry small birds who seem to peck after everything and everybody that annoys them, so after attacking each other, their focus is quickly on a big blue bird that makes another noise than they do. They quickly hunt him away, but he still hangs in. Too late the little fellows understand what him letting loose means. This moment of realization is possibly the funniest part of the film. So you probably know who finally has the last laugh. It's an entertaining three minutes, but I would not say it is Oscar worthy, at least not in terms of the story. Still certainly worth a watch. Recommended and I wonder if the big bird is going to get his own film at some point. Probably not.
Review of For the Birds
