"Accidents, Blunders and Calamities" is a 5-minute animated short film from New Zealand. This one came out two years ago, back in 2015, and brought writer and director James Cunningham a solid deal of awards attention. It is probably his most known work at this point. the cast includes children as voice actors who have the same name and perhaps they are his children. Anyway, this is the story of a possum dad who tells his children a fairly dark good night story about all kinds of ways in which all kinds of animals die, usually through accidents caused by men or things created by men. And the ending is even darker I assume, but not too unexpected. I personally must say while the voice acting, animation and writing of the words are fairly solid that this film even begin to drag at this extremely short runtime. I guess you can check it out once and that is certainly enough. You also won't be missing too much if you skip it as it is basically just a collection of many really brief snippets put together and there is no coherent story in here and the film's message is also nothing special. Thumbs down from me, can't agree with the awards bodies here and I hope Cunningham, who has been extremely prolific in recent years, will step things up in the future.
