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Mouse No. 39

An impressive film from an impressive group of young emerging animators - I met them in person at the Heat. Physical paper puppets are simple but with touches of complexity in just the right places to lift the effect to the best possible in 48 hours. The artwork is backed with excellent script and performances as we see the world from the point of view of laboratory mice. This is also a mini musical. The mice sing and the scientists speak in rhyme in the style of a children's book - but for older children as this is sweet, ironic and sad. A little, just a little, like "Spirited Away".