Magic Candies - Comments & Tips

bookmarking for next time I lose the remote

I think the lesson from this animated short film for children should be that you shouldn't eat “Magic Candies” that an old man gives you. Otherwise, you might start to hear animals and objects talking. Aside from this somewhat questionable premise, it's a pretty cute movie, with a neat animation style and a relatable story. Although it is predictable and could get to the point a little sooner, the pretty visuals keep “Magic Candies” interesting until the end.

I really like how they treated the child character as intelligent and capable of quickly picking up on things, e.g. taking the candy in and out of his mouth to confirm his hypothesis that the candy is what's causing him to hear the sofa and eating the next candy next to the dog because the pattern matched and that's what he thought would speak next...waaay too many child (and too often, adult) characters are treated as the dumbest of the dumb and it would be a whole 3-to-5-to-7 minute sequence of the child learning what the short did here in maybe under 2 minutes