"In the Rough" is an award-winning 5-minute short film written and directed by Paul Taylor back in 2004, briefly after writing the semi-known "Rockfish", another animated short film. For that one there, he was not the director though. Anyway, I see Taylor worked recently in the animation department of several fairly famous feature film such as "The Green Hornet" or "The Amazing Spider-Man", but judging from his effort in this short film here, I cannot see him in commanding positions anytime soon unless he really steps up his game. Then again, it's been a long time since he made this short film here and it's not all bad, but the story is so uninteresting from a dramatic as well as comedic perspective that I just cannot recommend it. The good thing for non-English speakers is that there is no dialogue in here, so you enjoy the film no matter where you're from. But why would you? It is really very forgettable. Not recommended.
Review of In the Rough
