I like a lot to see animated shorts. For me, most of those shorts are way more creative and inspiring than most of the movies from the recent years, having also more artistic value than many so-called "masterpieces".
Sadly, most of those shorts are quite underrated on IMDb. For some reason, even the shorts with a high visual quality and captivating stories tend to have a relatively low (or just average) score on this website, and I simply don't know why.
However, and sadly, this is not of those underrated shorts. In fact, I will dare to say that this is something quite overrated.
I honestly don't know what is the big deal about this. Sure, there is a somewhat clever plot twist at the end, but besides of that, there isn't anything remarkable about this.
And the plot twist at the end (Where the titular character commits suicide at the end in order to achieve his dream to fly) isn't really that clever. I am not sure if that was supposed to be some kind of dark joke, or something emotional, but either way, it didn't work for me. I personally see it from a dramatic perspective, but it didn't have very much emotional impact on me.
Additionally, this short doesn't have a very good animation quality. Despite being made in the year 2006, the CGI from "Kiwi!" looks like something from the late nineties and visually it isn't very creative. I 've seen many other animated films and shorts which despite having a low budget, use their resources in a very creative manner, sometimes with very beautiful results, but "Kiwi!" doesn't even seems to be trying to be something more than generic in that aspect.
In my opinion, "Kiwi!" along with "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" and "Oktapodi" is one of the most overrated short animations ever made. There are many, many animated shorts which are much better than this one (Not only in what concerns to the visual aspect, but also narratively speaking, having also much more meaningful messages and much more emotional impact than "Kiwi!"
Just to name a few: "The Little Matchgirl" Disney short from the year 2006, "Madame Tutli-Putli", "Street of Crocodiles", all the shorts directed by Aleksandr Petrov, "The External World", "Please Say Something", "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello", "Paths of Hate", "Pas à deux" from Gerrit van Dijk, "Love and War", "Adam and Dog", any of the PES shorts...And sadly, most of them have less score on IMDb than this.
Sadly, most of those shorts are quite underrated on IMDb. For some reason, even the shorts with a high visual quality and captivating stories tend to have a relatively low (or just average) score on this website, and I simply don't know why.
However, and sadly, this is not of those underrated shorts. In fact, I will dare to say that this is something quite overrated.
I honestly don't know what is the big deal about this. Sure, there is a somewhat clever plot twist at the end, but besides of that, there isn't anything remarkable about this.
And the plot twist at the end (Where the titular character commits suicide at the end in order to achieve his dream to fly) isn't really that clever. I am not sure if that was supposed to be some kind of dark joke, or something emotional, but either way, it didn't work for me. I personally see it from a dramatic perspective, but it didn't have very much emotional impact on me.
Additionally, this short doesn't have a very good animation quality. Despite being made in the year 2006, the CGI from "Kiwi!" looks like something from the late nineties and visually it isn't very creative. I 've seen many other animated films and shorts which despite having a low budget, use their resources in a very creative manner, sometimes with very beautiful results, but "Kiwi!" doesn't even seems to be trying to be something more than generic in that aspect.
In my opinion, "Kiwi!" along with "Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty" and "Oktapodi" is one of the most overrated short animations ever made. There are many, many animated shorts which are much better than this one (Not only in what concerns to the visual aspect, but also narratively speaking, having also much more meaningful messages and much more emotional impact than "Kiwi!"
Just to name a few: "The Little Matchgirl" Disney short from the year 2006, "Madame Tutli-Putli", "Street of Crocodiles", all the shorts directed by Aleksandr Petrov, "The External World", "Please Say Something", "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello", "Paths of Hate", "Pas à deux" from Gerrit van Dijk, "Love and War", "Adam and Dog", any of the PES shorts...And sadly, most of them have less score on IMDb than this.