Knick Knack (1992)

You won't be disappointed!

As Good As It Gets

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

In an alternative universe where toys are alive, a snowman dreams about joining the summer party taking place next to him, while it is trapped inside a snowball. The main and almost only motivation after this snowman to get out the snowball and approach the other toys partying is the presence of a skin and wavy blonde doll, with a huge and impressive sunglasses and a brilliant smile which helps her to fit in the perfect and standardized canon of a woman nowadays everyone should desire to be or to date. The short film deals with this subject in a humoristic way, showing the snowman going through different situations in order to finally meet this doll and be with her. But for what concerns me, the jokes are far from being funny or original, the story is simple and quite predictable, what in addition to the motivation under the plot made me unable to enjoy the film. The good part of the short film might be the good animation Pixar Studios never fails to show, the colors and the sound which make the piece audio visually attractive, thus even when there is no dialogue we are able to follow everything that is going on and read the expressions and feelings of the toys on screen when they are not even human nor real.

I think I can glimpse the cultural differences between America and Japan. In this movie, the snowman tried to be close to a woman at first. However he tried to be closer to a mermaid after falling from the shelf. I think Japanese tend to be shy to the people who they meet for the first time. In contrast to this, the American tend to be friendly to the people who they meet for the first time. This movie express their character. This movie includes the lesson that getting greedy is bad. Japanese movies like Momotarou have such lessons and children read a lot when they grow up. But I think that this movie is based on the relationship between opposite sex in spite of being child-oriented. That influences the American characters. I think these are the cultural differences I noticed.

This is a story about toys. The main character is a snowman in a snow globe. Outside of the snow globe, many toys are playing in a warm climate and one girl asks him to come. He wants to go there to see the beautiful girl and wants to escape from the snow dome. He tries every method to get away from the snow dome, but he can't. Finally, the snow dome falls from the top of a shelf. Then he finds the way to get away from the snow dome. But then, unexpected things happen. The snowman's actions are always funny, but I felt a little sad because no matter what the snowman does, he is not able to meet a beautiful woman. This short film is very simple story and it is very funny. In this film, there is no dialogs, but the toys tell me what they want to say by using their body language, expression, their funny reactions and the BGM. This film does not require special language skills, so I suppose that every generation from children to adults can enjoy this film.

First of all, this short film is so cute. The way of drawing characters and the concept are very intimate that almost all of the people will love it. The story is how the snowman can escape from snow dorm.the tries are so funny. he tries to dig a hole in the floor. He also tries to bomb the snow dorm. he does it just for a woman he loves. He never give up even though his part of face mangles and his nose bends. His ideas are so fantastic and unpredictable so I did not feel bored.I was surprised at the ending of the film. Most people including me though he gets out from snow dorm but to be truth he coops up in another new place, fish bowl.I thought it was a bad ending. However, when I saw that a snow man finds his new loving girl, I was confident that it was a nice happy ending. It was interesting because the ending was unexpected and happy ending from another perspective.