2009: Up (in 2-D)

The Pixar movie, about an old man who wants to fulfill his lifelong dream of going to South America by flying there using his house (with lots of helium balloons attached) only to find there's still a boy scout on the porch after he's left the ground, is visually attractive and generally done with the level of professionalism that one expects from Pixar, but suffers a bit from a slump in the middle. Better than Happy Feet or The Incredibles, but not as good as Madagascar or Ratatouille. (6.5)

2009: Logorama

The Oscar-nominated short, packed with as many corporate logos as would fit into a quarter of an hour, isn't just visually attractive in a brightly-coloured, in-your-face way, but also a nicely structured police-and-thieves story. Just overlook the sixth-graders style social criticizm. (7)

1934: Fétiche (The Mascot)

To simplfy the dream-in-a-dream-in-a-dream-type of plot greatly, a toy dog ventures into a world inhabited by lots of strange creatures, only for a fight to break out over the orange that he brought. The reasonably charming 26-minute movie which combines stop-motion with a little conventionally shot film (6.5) was made by one Ladislas Starewicz, who, if Wikipedia is to be believed, was inspired to do stop-motion because as the

director of a museum of natural history in Kaunas [...] he made four short live-action documentaries for the museum. For the fifth film, Starewicz wished to record the battle of two stag beetles, but was stymied by the fact that the nocturnal creatures inevitably went to sleep whenever the stage lighting was turned on.

Opportunity knocks!