
Stick Man, an animated twig, lives with his Stick Lady Love and their children in the family tree. Out one day for a jog he meets a little boy who throws him for his dog to fetch, some children who play Pooh-sticks with him and a swan who uses him to build a nest before being washed out to sea and onto a beach far from home. After several other humiliating encounters throughout the year he has an unexpected saviour in the form of Santa Claus who helps him to get home for Chri... (Full plot summary below)
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Stick Man, an animated twig, lives with his Stick Lady Love and their children in the family tree. Out one day for a jog he meets a little boy who throws him for his dog to fetch, some children who play Pooh-sticks with him and a swan who uses him to build a nest before being washed out to sea and onto a beach far from home. After several other humiliating encounters throughout the year he has an unexpected saviour in the form of Santa Claus who helps him to get home for Christmas with his family.
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| Common Sense MediaBarbara ShulgasserBook-based animated short celebrates love of family. |
| User ReviewChris JI loved this, never mind my 2 year old son. This will become our Christmas classic, along with The Snowman. |
| User ReviewLilianetty lWhat a great animated version of a classic book for kids! I honestly cried at the very end coz you can't tell if "Stick Man" could survive this amazing yet scary adventure (life is scary isn't?). The voice actors/cast all were brilliant (loved Martin Freeman as Stick Man BTW too!). The music score also was lovely :) I recommend this film for everyone (if you know someone with kids also recommend it to them!). Enjoy and HAPPY NEW YEAR! COME 2016!!! - December 31, 2015 review :D |
| User ReviewPramitheus RWell, I didn't know this was a Christmas short. It somehow ended up in my laptop and now that I've seen it, I thought why not review it especially because it has Dr.Watson or Martin Freeman in it. It's a fairly simple story with Martin Freeman's Stick Man, who lives with his family and one fine day decides to go for a jog and finds himself in an adventure he wasn't really expecting. That's it. No complications, no hidden meaning. Simple and fun. The animation had a stop-motion kind of a feel to it. I mean, it looked like stop-motion but nowadays animation has reached such heights that it's difficult to tell the difference between actual stop-motion and artificial. Stick Man's youngest kid is the cutest Stick I've ever seen. The dialogue in the movie consists of rhymes that are said by various elements in the movie like the frog or the pigeon etc. It was basically Toy Story with twigs, oh sorry, Stick Man. Martin Freeman really plays these funny, frustrated characters really well and he conveys it only by the grunts when he slams into an oar and also how his tone changes every-time he says the poem. Definitely give it a watch. It's only 27 minutes long which has 5 minutes of credits in it. It reminded me that shorts and even full-length films can be made just for the fun of it and this one made me feel like a kid again. |