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Far from tiny in charm
While familiar with a lot of Soyuzmultfilm's work beforehand for a long time, 'The Tiny Fish' is one of not many, most of it their late work (am more familiar with the studio's early and mid periods output) where discovery of its existence and watching it was recent. It was hard to say no to viewing it, being somebody that considers Soyuzmultfilm one of her personal favourite animation studios and considers a lot of their work classics. Really wish that more of their work is better known, their best work puts a lot of animation studios to shame.
'The Tiny Fish' did not disappoint in any way. While not one of Soyuzmultfilm's all-time best, it is for me among their best later animations and really a must watch for animation fans, fans of the studio that haven't seen all of their work and if you want to be more familiar with non-UK/US animation (of which Soviet animation is a good and accessible place to start). Often, in the aim to be balanced oe too gushing or too harsh when expressing my opinions, very like trying to find good in anything bad what a good/great/brilliant film, episode, cartoon etc. could have improved upon is pointed out too. The only fault with 'The Tiny Fish' is me not being able to find anything to fault, sorry if that doesn't make sense.
It's beautifully animated for one. Especially the wintry backgrounds and that magical in every sense transformation of the paper fish. Also loved the tenderness of the cut-out character designs, a very unique animation style used more than once in later Soyuzmultfilm efforts that has held up well, especially that for the girl with those nuanced movements and expressions. The music also provides a lot of emotional impact and adds to the atmosphere beautifully.
Atmosphere is something that 'The Tiny Fish' is rich in, one really gets immersed in this quite wondrous setting, while charm and emotion (touching and never too explicit, especially for the girl's expressions) are also things it's rich in. 'The Tiny Fish' is never too sentimental, never too cloying and it never gets too scary.
Even with the character of the evil fisherman and the nightmare featuring him. While he and the fish are memorable characters it's the girl that one relates to the most. That 'The Tiny Fish' is wordless works entirely in its favour and really lets the poignancy and atmosphere to speak, dialogue in my view would have intruded.
Summing up, quite wondrous. 10/10
'The Tiny Fish' did not disappoint in any way. While not one of Soyuzmultfilm's all-time best, it is for me among their best later animations and really a must watch for animation fans, fans of the studio that haven't seen all of their work and if you want to be more familiar with non-UK/US animation (of which Soviet animation is a good and accessible place to start). Often, in the aim to be balanced oe too gushing or too harsh when expressing my opinions, very like trying to find good in anything bad what a good/great/brilliant film, episode, cartoon etc. could have improved upon is pointed out too. The only fault with 'The Tiny Fish' is me not being able to find anything to fault, sorry if that doesn't make sense.
It's beautifully animated for one. Especially the wintry backgrounds and that magical in every sense transformation of the paper fish. Also loved the tenderness of the cut-out character designs, a very unique animation style used more than once in later Soyuzmultfilm efforts that has held up well, especially that for the girl with those nuanced movements and expressions. The music also provides a lot of emotional impact and adds to the atmosphere beautifully.
Atmosphere is something that 'The Tiny Fish' is rich in, one really gets immersed in this quite wondrous setting, while charm and emotion (touching and never too explicit, especially for the girl's expressions) are also things it's rich in. 'The Tiny Fish' is never too sentimental, never too cloying and it never gets too scary.
Even with the character of the evil fisherman and the nightmare featuring him. While he and the fish are memorable characters it's the girl that one relates to the most. That 'The Tiny Fish' is wordless works entirely in its favour and really lets the poignancy and atmosphere to speak, dialogue in my view would have intruded.
Summing up, quite wondrous. 10/10
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- TheLittleSongbird
- Dec 15, 2020
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