It's taken decades, but it finally feels as if mainstream American moviegoers are warming to the fact that animation can be used for something other than entertaining the kiddies. Thank Saturday-morning cartoons, Walt Disney's hang-up with fairy tales, or that "waskally wabbit" Bugs Bunny, but the fact is that somewhere along the line we stopped taking the art form seriously, dismissing it as a container for all things juvenile rather than embracing it as a creative means of exploring adult issues and themes. Shane Acker's exciting, inventive feature debut is a film that addresses some pretty weighty issues -- the collapse of humanity and the importance of questionin...
Released:
2009
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
79 mins