Boundin' (2003)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This short animated film tells the story of a lamb who is sheared by humans. He is embarrassed by his appearance, and is laughed at by other animals. A deer then shows him that he can cheer up by bouncing around."Boundin'" is quite different from other Pixar animations because, not only it has spoken words, they are in rhymes as well. The story is simple but positive. Yet, I did not quite appeal to me because the I am not a fan of the nursery rhymes in the animation. It is not as effective and touching as other Pixar shorts either.

What a lovely little extra to find with my Incredibles DVD! This is a great little animated rhyme about a Sheep and a Jackalope. The sheep with his glossy coat dances for his friends and they dance too. One day he is shorn and he gets unhappy till a Jackalope comes and rescues him with a new move- the bound! - "you'll find that your up in whats called a bound." "I must say that they found his dancing enhancing for they'd also join in the play." Proof if it was needed that looks aren't everything and that even without his trademark coat he can still be happy and make his friends happy too. When he would bound so would they and they all liked it!

My comment is in response to the one posted now. It seems to me that Pixar chose to visit the days when shorts were common before an animated feature. Growing up, I and my brother and sister looked forward to the short almost as much as the feature. Clearly Bud Lucky understands the genre.I also take exception with the concept that Pixar has an abstract obligation to their artistic history. Prior shorts have nothing to do with this film. The idea that any artist must top themselves is a concept that has ruined many artists. "Strive to do good work", that is the best any artist can hope for. "Great work" is decided by critics and history.

I love this short. I'm not sure why not very many people did. It was so poignant and touching. I love the lesson that it tries to convey. Why some may say that it's sappy and not at all like the previous Pixar shorts...I'd say this one is a cut above the rest. The animation is fabulous as always and there was just an extra touch of love to it because of the personalization done by Bud Luckey's animation. Him providing the vocals for this one put the icing on the cake. I just love Bud Luckey. He seems like such an endearing man. Especially when they interviewed him on the extra features DVD and he mentioned something about the work he did previously for Sesame Street and how he was teaching kids with numbers then and now they were teaching him how to animate with numbers...and he seemed almost tearful.