Flatland: The Movie (2007)

Based on Edwin Abott's book "Flatland", this is an animated film about geometric characters living in a two-dimensional world. When a young girl named "Hex" decides to "think outside the ... See full summary »

Directors:

Dano Johnson, Jeffrey Travis

Writers:

Edwin A. Abbott (book), Seth Caplan

Stars:

Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Martin Sheen	...	Arthur Square (voice)
Kristen Bell	...	Hex (voice)
Michael York	...	Spherius (voice)
Joe Estevez	...	Abbott Square (voice)
Tony Hale	...	King of Pointland (voice)
Curtis Luciani	...	King of Lineland (voice)
Danu Uribe	...	Arlene Square (voice)
Garry Peters	...	Pantocyclus (voice)
Lee Eddy	...	Helios / Queen of Lineland (voice)
Robert Murphy	...	Pentagon Reporter (voice)
Shannon McCormick	...	Triangle Guard #1 (voice)
Seth Caplan	...	Triangle Guard #2 (voice)
Dano Johnson	...	Radio Triangle (voice)
T. Lynn Mikeska	...	Heptagon Mother / Queen of Lineland (voice)
Jeffrey Travis	...	Circle Priest (voice)

Storyline

Based on Edwin Abott's book "Flatland", this is an animated film about geometric characters living in a two-dimensional world. When a young girl named "Hex" decides to "think outside the box" (in a world where such thought is forbidden), her life becomes in danger and it is up to her grandfather to save her life.

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Taglines:

A Journey of Many Dimensions

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Genres:

Animation | Short

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Also Known As:

Flatland

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Flat World Productions

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Director Jeffrey Travis has a cameo as a yellow Circle Priest, while Director/Animator Dano Johnson plays multiple triangle guards.

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Goofs

The spinning cube at the center of Area 33H shows up as a changing hexagon within Flatland. By analogy, the spinning hypercube at the end of the movie should appear as a changing polyhedral solid, but instead it appears as the full convex-hull three-dimensional projection.

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Quotes

Female Boss Circle: [to A Square, who is late arriving at the office] Get to your Square-icle! NOW!

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Crazy Credits

The film opens with the following message: 'This movie has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your Spaceland screen. Certain elements from Flatland have been altered to be recognizable by three-dimensional beings. Any similarity to people, places or objects in our world is purely coincidental.'

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Connections

Version of Flatland (1982)

User Reviews

misrepresents the original ideas, and boring as hell

We just finished watching the Ehlinger version; and by finished watching I mean jump to the titles to see who had made this awful adaptation. As someone with a passing knowledge of the original novel, some training in maths, and a solid background in cognitive science, I assure you that there were few (if any) things this movie got right.

Annoying things about the film: the plot is stupid and so slow, the voices and dialogs intolerable, the characters I would not even be able to call flat... There are 'signs' at the beginning which are supposed to be funny, but simply come off as insults, treating the viewer as an imbecile who cannot tell what to pay attention to. So bad. Let's turn to 'math,' then.

It's impossible for a 2D organism with a 1D retina to suddenly 'see' in 3D. He would continue to see the perspective through a plane (e.g. slices of his conspecifics, seen from above in a single plane crossing the flatland, NOT a bird eye's view. On the other hand, it is false for a 2D object NOT to have an idea of what perspective is (it is still the case that an object will appear bigger when closer in 2D).

Too bad to continue. Better check out the book in the Guttenberg project.