March 4, 2010: Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
A 6-minute Irish animated short film should be reviewable in the space of a couple of paragraphs, right? I think so.
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty makes its point and then ends. The timing is right, and it makes the experience sweeter as a result.
A woman, of course with physically exaggerated features and voice since this is a short animated film, is reading a bedtime story to her grandson, who is frightened by a storm raging outside. She starts reading Sleeping Beauty and we see dreamy visualizations of the story she’s telling, but it quickly degenerates into an angry rant about youth and how old people are ignored (imagine the idyllic Disney-esque vision being interrupted by an elderly green fairy flying and jumping around with a little walker). Granny’s altered version of Sleeping Beauty builds to a crescendo of bitterness and anger, and then she declares that that’s all for tonight and bids her grandson a good rest.
And that’s it. Hilarious, brief and right on.
But not quite an Oscar winner.
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