Director: Mark Brierley
Release Date: 1997
Rating: ★
Review:
In a graveyard a skeleton plays cricket with some unwilling ghosts.
‘Owzat’ is Aardman’s first endeavor into computer animation and it pales when compared to Pixar films from the same period. The designs look hopelessly primitive, the animation is stiff and the colors are rather ugly. As the film is quite incomprehensible, slow and unfunny, one wonders why it was made in the first place. It looks like a study, and it probably wouldn’t have been released if it had not been an Aardman production.
Watch ‘Owzat’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Owzat’ is available on the DVD ‘Aardman Classics’
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January 11, 2019 at 16:38
Alan Keeling
I quite enjoyed “Owzat,” mind you, I always enjoy cartoons that feature ghosts and haunted houses, so this cartoon was no exception, featuring ghosts of past cricketers and skeletons was rather entertaining to watch.
January 25, 2014 at 01:32
Jason Marshall
I don’t understand what I just watched.
January 27, 2014 at 10:14
Gijs Grob
No, and that’s the short’s most serious problem