Flavors of Youth

This is a film featuring three short stories about three people/groups when they where younger, reminiscing on missed opportunities or mistakes. Overall the stories are extremely straight forward. I'm usually a fan of slice of life, where it simply drops you in the shoes of someone to explorer their world view but, these are painfully boring and generic. You can tell what the ending of each story is going to be and I don't think I took anything away from them. As well, because each short story is roughly 25 minutes long you aren't given enough time learn about the characters and become connected with them. Most of their actions seem rash or down right laughable. The main draw of the film is the pretty animation, but without an interesting story I don't think the film offers much. The last story seems to be the most developed, so at least you end on somewhat of a high note. If you're interested in the animation and/or stories, then skip to the last story and watch that first. If you like it, then watch the first two.

I really liked the tone of the first short in this but the other more narrative driven ones were kinda boring...