The Meaning of Life (2005)

Director:

Don Hertzfeldt

Writer:

Don Hertzfeldt

Stars:

Don Hertzfeldt, Jennifer Nyholm, Sara Cushman

3 wins.

Cast

Credited cast:
Don Hertzfeldt	...	(voice)
Jennifer Nyholm	...	(voice)
Sara Cushman	...	(voice)
Karin Anger	...	(voice)
June Shields	...	(voice)
Kenneth Cook	...	(voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Noah Harpster	...	(voice)
Robert May	...	(voice)
Kinsey Packard	...	(voice)
Nicole Gabriella Scipione	...	Voice

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

paranoia | fire | outer space | galaxy | space | 

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Genres:

Animation | Short | Drama | Music | Sci-Fi

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 January 2005 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bitter Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

12 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Don Hertzfeldt single-handedly animated and photographed tens of thousands of drawings for the film, over the course of four years.

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Crazy Credits

No computers were used in the animation or photography of this motion picture.

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Connections

Edited into Everything Will Be Ok (2006)

User Reviews

Not Much To Like, Except For The Music, In This 'Life'

The author obviously thinks he is making some profound statements about how life is, and, brother, this is so pretentious it's ridiculous. Worse than that, much of this animated short film will give you a headache, not entertainment. There is a segment early on which lasts for seems like eternity in which many people all talking at once. In other words, this movie assault your senses - in a negative way.

Putting it simply: this is not fun to watch.

Much of the other times, stick figures grunt, groan, make bird noises, pig noises, alien gibberish and just plain assault your ears. The stick figures are not clever, nor entertaining, just something that looks like weirdo drew while on drugs.

Because I enjoy the innovative artwork on all of these Animation DVD collections, I find it hard to dislike anything but this one - and another unnamed one - are just awful. The only redeeming quality on "The Meaning Of Life" was the excellent classical music score.