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Title: One Rat Short

Date Viewed: 2/20/07

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Director: Alex Weil

Score: 1/2

The Review: Secret of NIMH like theme: in the persistent quest to retrieve a piece of litter (artfully drifting from the subway railyards to a building roof), a drab rat breaks into a research facility where the experimental subjects are white lab rats. But it's guarded by a watchful and wary robot.

Excellent fur and texture-mapping; an almost Pixar-type rendering quality. A lot of unusual camera angles and perspectives: the rat's eye view of semi-automated animal research.

One of the 2006 Academy Award nominees for animated short feature; others included Danish Poet, Maestro, Little Matchgirl and No Time for Nuts. Other animated short features (screened at the same time) that qualified or were shortlisted for Oscar nomination included The Passenger, The Wraith of Cobble Hill, Guide Dog and Gentlemen's Duel.

(11-Mar-07)

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