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Other reviews are inaccurate to the events of the short film. Having watched a ton of animated clips on Youtube, I didn't expect much of a clear plot or story. Most films like these are experimental and made by students learning the craft, which means they are often bizarre. In this film, a man and his wife go to a factory that makes fat women skinny. The woman goes through a series of nonsensical but painless procedures while her husband explores the factory. One woman wanders off and discovers a cupcake that turns her into a balloon. The wife goes through the slimming procedures and all the women seem mildly amused by the whole process and delighted with the results. They walk out in an assembly line and pose (either for the husband or themselves, it's hard to tell). The wife follows through the exit, unchanged by the procedure but still posing for her husband. They hug and leave. It is unclear what the message of the film is. You could argue that it's about "love is blind," since the husband doesn't seem to care that his wife is still fat. However, the one woman who wandered off turns into a balloon because of her gluttony. Plus, the whole sequence is portrayed as peaceful, arbitrary, and a bit amusing for the ladies. There's no way of telling how the husband feels. As he wanders about, he stares at everything. It could be taken that he's ogling the thin ladies, but he really just appears curious about the whole process and the building. I like the abstract and nonsensical process the ladies go through. It seems each step doesn't really do anything until they are transformed at the very end. It's a fun look at futuristic setting design, if nothing else.

Uncommonly for a short animation, Slimtime was directed by four unpracticed French directors whose names are Bertrand Avril, Pierre Chomarat, David Dangin and Thea Matland, apart from Thea Matland who later charged with visual effects of some feature-length movies their filmography is contented with merely Slimtime. A black comedy centers upon a thin downhearted man who is married with an obese wife ogles at slim women; they make decision to pay a visit to weird weight loss resort to undergo slimming treatment.

Weight loss resort implements a large scale and complex treatment process on weightwatchers, comprising disinfestation bath, twisting and pumping, all these process are shown in-depth however the transformation from fat to fit occur all of a sudden; so then why pointlessly all the redundant advancement is screened? One more thing is why that woman was not able to be transformed into a fit body whereas all other women had been succeeded. I have questioned that may it was due to eating this pink cake but, the woman who eats that cake is blond while the woman who could not be transformed has brown-haired.

Even though in the light of all the facts mentioned above Slimtime remains as amateurish hereby I liked Slimtime by virtue of its talent for making a tragicomic plot; the man who desires to have a slim wife waits for seeing her into fit body and ends up with a great disappointment at the end of the story.

"Slimtime" is a French animated short film that runs for 8 minutes only, but was directed by no less than four people and for three of them it has been the only filmmaking effort so far. And overall, I am not too sad about this as the film really turns out relatively underwhelming. It takes place at a center for women where they are helped in losing weight and our "hero" brings his wife there and then goes on a walk to check out what kind of facility it all is. This tour really drags for the audience because nothing interesting happens. Nothing funny happens either. It's just a tour during which we see fat and thin women occasionally interacting with each other. But it really came short in the comedy department. This is especially disappointing as I believe the interesting location and also the pretty decent animation could have made for a much better movie. I give this one a thumbs-down as really nothing about it turns out memorable at the very end. Final note: The spoken lines are so rare that you can easily watch this without subtitles, no matter where you are from and what languages you speak. But why would you? Watch something else instead.

this movie is that fat women admission to factory that makes women lose weight style. There are many machines to lose weight in the factory. And, there is no men in the factory. the fat women are same face and style and the slim women same face and style in this factory. This factory may be called standardization factory. the main character, man may be surprised at these situation. His wife goes to factory, but she did't lose weight and didn't become slim. I don't why she did't lose weight and didn't become slim but, the man hug the woman so I think people can love true light. But, finally, I don't understand what the movie represents.