Review on short video

Synopsis
Oktapodi (2007) is a French computer animated short film that originated as a graduate student project from Gobelins L E'cole de L I'mage. The story is about a pair of octopuses saving each other from a restaurant cook. The beginning of the film shows the supplier grabbed and weigh in the female (pink) octopus and kept it in the truck. The middle part of the video displays the process on saving the male (orange) octopus.

The male octopus went out from the aquarium, determined to save the female octopus. At the end of the video, the male octopus was grabbed by a seagull bird, is time for the female octopus to save the male octopus.

Interesting
The characters in this video looked lively and cute. The octopuses are behaving like humans. This makes the story became interesting because the characters showed a lot of expressions. The beginning of the video quite catchy and contained a small climax (eg: The female octopus was grab out from the scene).

A lot of real-life action scenes inserted in this video like punching and chopping for example.

This video shows the octopuses are stubborn, and this act might giving a hint to the viewers that there will be 2nd part for this video (?)

What's not so good
The video contained inappropiate contents for some viewers especially children. The scenes of punching and slashing the octopus are bad influence for children. The children might want to try it for fun since there were no blood stains in the video.

Suggestion
Everything is okay to me, in terms of graphics and how the characters reacted. I think it would be much better if the chopping octopus scene can be replaced by other elements. Direct showing it into the video can bring bad influence to certain viewers.

Ng Min Kim
DMC08