Berri's Couch Berri

Another batch of shorts with stories of justified revenge, the pains of creative endeavours when you can't work the same as your peers, propaganda for a rival company, and the terrors of living inanimate objects in an otherwise regular city. Now we see how Pixar continues as a company with a well established reputation and if they can continue moving upwards or if there is a downturn at any point.

The next set of shorts are up for discussion we see through the release that take us form Bug's Life to Ratatouille. We see old men engaging in illegal gambling, children extorting creatives and the truest horrors of all....nakedness and driving tests.

An episode dedicated to the shorts before the main features? No only the first of a series of episodes cataloguing the rise of the Pixar shorts and the highs, lows and terrors they inflicted upon people. These have left their marks for better and in one particular case worse.

Laika's first foray into production as themselves. This film defined them in the popular consciousness for better or worse, how does it stand up after all this time? Could they have done better? What fingerprints that later come to define the company can be found here? All this and a serious discussion about fictional houses in this episode.

So how does Laika do on a contract job for a auteur that can at times forget that film needs a story and can't coast by on visuals alone. Is this a good merging of creators or is it better that death parts this union quickly.

The magnum opus of Laika productions but is it without flaws? Is stop motion a viable medium for samurai stories? Is origami a valid form of ques marker? All the questions asked and answered as we look at Kubo.