A Gourmet Peasant Dish.

Rating: 9/10 (11 August 2007)

What do you do if you find yourself in the wrong skin? If you find yourself in an environment so plebeian to your own exceptional senses and skills that you'd rather leave for a new world?
Evidently the answer is that you make a movie about it. And the story continues that you leave for a more sophisticated place where you will take on the best in your craft, and succeed. Further, you will find your success by pulling puppet strings, or "animating." And on.
The parallel nature of filmmaker's story/main character's story is no accident. Pixar pulls this multi-level trick in every film they make.
As for all the other aspects of this film? Craftsmanlike.
(I saw an animated character animate a character of his own just twice before, in Curious George, and first in 'Duck Amuck,' which is brilliant.)