ShangLuda Admirable film.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Kirpianuscus eulogy of comradely. funny and sweet. and dramatic. wise choice for children about basic values and the need of the other, about beauty and its price. colors, characters, details - all more than beautiful. this beauty is completed by the simplicity of story. amusing, nice, touching, it represents a form of poetry about small beings and wise pledge for solidarity.

Imdbidia This another short coming from the ESMA school of Animation and has the good-quality trademark that most of their students' films show. The animation is very good, clean, very fluid, nice backgrounds, good lighting and great characters. To me, the characters and the story make any short film. The caterpillar, the weevil and the cockroach are the only characters here, but they have distinctive personalities, are funny, and are very well animated. The story is simple, probably not original, one of those lessons of nature that we are all sad to know, but that is life. However, the film is very charming and funny. The film is wordless, just sounds and grunts, but very enjoyable. I think mostly for children.

Robert Reynolds This short was included in the Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015: Animation as an additional short. There will be spoilers ahead:This is a visually appealing short with a very limited and somewhat minor plot. It concerns a caterpillar attempting to get into a cocoon. Unfortunately, the cocoon is a bit too small to fit over a rather large caterpillar.Two other bugs, a weevil and a cockroach, decide to help out. The bulk of a rather brief short is spent on sight gags detailing mishaps before and after the cocoon is slipped over the caterpillar. There isn't much to them and they're quite obvious for the most part, while still bringing a few laughs.The big reveal finally comes about and is rather striking. The ending is altogether too obvious, but I won't spoil it here.This short is part of the Oscar Shorts program, though it wasn't one of the final nominees. The program itself is excellent and this short is worth watching.

Steve Pulaski Kicking off the "highly commended" selection of short films in the Oscar nominated animated short films special of 2015 is the most mediocre film off of this particular lot and the entire lot in general. Sweet Cocoon is a terribly basic and uninspired short film about a caterpillar desperately trying to fit in a cocoon that is too big for him. The caterpillar is assisted by two additional insects to no such avail. The only thing that amounts here is tedium, as the same one-note joke is played out quite heavily, despite only being six minutes long and the monotony becomes overbearing far quicker than it should. Apparently, Sweet Cocoon used the same graphics engine/rendering software as Pixar, as the style mirrors that of A Bug's Life with its rubbery texture, but that certainly can't help terribly basic storytelling for a short that just trudges along for six minutes before falling with a louder than thud than an obese caterpillar.Directed by: Matéo Bernard, Mathias Bruget, Jonathan Duret, Manon Marco and Quentin Puiraveau.