Mr. Breadins

Crazy, laugh-out-loud mayhem. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Reminded me a bit of 'A Clockwork Orange.' Great movie.

As usual, a seriously hilarious short from my favourite lo-fi team. This short happily set up the WTF flavour for what was to come in this heat. Actually it was so entertaining and engrossing that I didn’t even realise it was a one-room film. The main (and only human) character was so well-conceived and believable in a kind of WTF way, and the cat and squirrel both seemed more than inanimate objects. What happened? Not much actually, but it was a glorious 7 minutes…

Great film! Must have been great fun to film! Had the audience gasping for air!

Stone cold brilliant. Better than Time-o-saurus. I couldn't stop laughing at the deadpan nature of his relationship with Mr. Breadins, and the hilarious mixture of voices put on through the film. An amazingly engaging one-room film, which followed all of the trappings of the genre so subtly you didn't even notice. The crime element was a touch dubious, but I suppose Mr. Breadins is intelligent enough that it counts as murder. The technical elements were all solid enough, but it really didn't matter because I was gasping for air through most of it. This really set the tone for the heat, and was far more coherent than most of the other shorts.

Complete with top hat and red bow-tie, our lead sems to play out this part of his life in his room, where he gets contact to others through computer games such as "Cat Roulette". Anyway that's all beside the point because he has greater discussion with a ceramic squirrel that lives in and around his computer and constantly chides our lead for his smoking of low-tar cigarettes in particular. This grates our lead but with the help of, Malcolm, a puppet cat. on his computer he strives to keep calm. I ticked the WTF box on the review sheet even before this started as The Otter always swing this way. It's not just mindless stupidity here though, there's actually a disturbing little story played out wonderfully. No frills from the Otter, but that's their style and it works for them. Funny and brilliant, but not for everyone.

It's always nice when you get a 48hours team with a uniquely idiosyncratic flavour, like an old cardigan that you slip back on. You know. Anyway, for me Otter is this probably more than just about any other Christchurch team. Their style is perhaps best exemplified by the casual matter-of-factness of the bizarre shit that goes down in their films - for instance, a grown man consulting a handmade cat-doll inside a human mouth via computer screen, as ordinarily as you might call your mum on the phone. So it's a one-room film (didn't actually realise this til later), full of silly, faux-ye olde dialogue and an ornamental manservant (squirrelservant?). I really enjoyed the take on the ex-bully required element, with Bobby fighting desperately to suppress his urge to physically abuse his subordinate. The cat was his guru for gentlefication, and the highlight for me was when he took some chill caplets, sending him into a psychedelic, primal screamy psycho-sequence, like a Pink Floyd promotional film circa 1969, then abruptly cutting to him calmly stating that he feels much calmer now. Also a great squirrel-cam fight sequence, but more than anything else, this is a film about the perils of grown men smoking light cigarettes. Probably not quite as accomplished in its stupidity as last year's "Time-o-saurus", but nonetheless another triumph of measured daftness.

[Watched this at the heats] One room movie I believe, a guy stuck in the room witha ceramic squirral. This film was hilarious, the main actor did a splendid job (in his tophat) and the whole production came together well. Highlights were the cat roulette, and whoever was doing the voice for the squirrel! Not wuite in the WTF catergory for me (as it actually had a storyline) however very good work keep it up guys!

As usual, a seriously hilarious short from my favourite lo-fi team. This short happily set up the WTF flavour for what was to come in this heat. Actually it was so entertaining and engrossing that I didn’t even realise it was a one-room film. The main (and only human) character was so well-conceived and believable in a kind of WTF way, and the cat and squirrel both seemed more than inanimate objects. What happened? Not much actually, but it was a glorious 7 minutes…

It's always nice when you get a 48hours team with a uniquely idiosyncratic flavour, like an old cardigan that you slip back on. You know. Anyway, for me Otter is this probably more than just about any other Christchurch team. Their style is perhaps best exemplified by the casual matter-of-factness of the bizarre shit that goes down in their films - for instance, a grown man consulting a handmade cat-doll inside a human mouth via computer screen, as ordinarily as you might call your mum on the phone. So it's a one-room film (didn't actually realise this til later), full of silly, faux-ye olde dialogue and an ornamental manservant (squirrelservant?). I really enjoyed the take on the ex-bully required element, with Bobby fighting desperately to suppress his urge to physically abuse his subordinate. The cat was his guru for gentlefication, and the highlight for me was when he took some chill caplets, sending him into a psychedelic, primal screamy psycho-sequence, like a Pink Floyd promotional film circa 1969, then abruptly cutting to him calmly stating that he feels much calmer now. Also a great squirrel-cam fight sequence, but more than anything else, this is a film about the perils of grown men smoking light cigarettes. Probably not quite as accomplished in its stupidity as last year's "Time-o-saurus", but nonetheless another triumph of measured daftness.