A teenage alien is trying to abduct a sleeping human, but doesn't know which switch to use.A teenage alien is trying to abduct a sleeping human, but doesn't know which switch to use.A teenage alien is trying to abduct a sleeping human, but doesn't know which switch to use.
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- TriviaThere are exactly 2,000 switches on the abduction console.
- Crazy creditsAt the end of the opening Pixar credit, the shining face of Luxo Jr. dissolves into a full moon in the night sky of the establishing shot.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 2006 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Animation (2007)
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A funny short about learning
A sleeping human rests on his bed when a gigantic UFO appears and, hell-bent on it, attempts to take him away.
The animation sets the scene as something mysterious, something that the spectator is expecting to see in an UFO movie, which later on adds to the humorisity of it all when the alien keeps on trying to take the human away without success, making the viewer realise that this isn't a normal short.
There's no dialogue, but the visual storytelling (the expressions of the aliens, the circumstances in which the youn alien is in) is so great that it isn't needed. The constant mistakes of the alien and the absolute blank-face of his partner are hilarious, but the story has time to turn a little heartwarming before making the audience laugh again. The ending is truly the cherry on top of this humorous short.
The animation sets the scene as something mysterious, something that the spectator is expecting to see in an UFO movie, which later on adds to the humorisity of it all when the alien keeps on trying to take the human away without success, making the viewer realise that this isn't a normal short.
There's no dialogue, but the visual storytelling (the expressions of the aliens, the circumstances in which the youn alien is in) is so great that it isn't needed. The constant mistakes of the alien and the absolute blank-face of his partner are hilarious, but the story has time to turn a little heartwarming before making the audience laugh again. The ending is truly the cherry on top of this humorous short.
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- Jun 21, 2018
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