Me and My Moulton (2014)
Me and My Moulton Review
Me and My Moulton is a 2014 Canadian animated short film that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. It’s a charming flick.
This is a story about a girl which wishes for a bicycle from her parents, but gets something completely different. Torill Kove directed this short, the director behind the Oscar-winning ‘Danish Poet’, and it’s a similarly intimate, personal and endearing tale as that winner. This is the weaker of the two movies. It is almost too simple in its themes and characterization, but it ultimately worked because that family drama charm was so evident.
This film is all about how children perceive their parents in a complicated way, a bit too complex for their own age, which eventually leads them to focus more on their flaws while discarding the many admirable qualities that they possess. In that way, the movie was quite relatable as we have all experienced this as kids. The narration was repetitious and the movie overlong for what it was trying to do, but the emotional ending was so wonderful that it made up for any flaws that the movie had before. The animation is too simplistic, but the score was good.
