"Garden Party" review.

A luxurious manor is seemingly abandoned, and frogs come in to overtake it. There's a reveal at the end of this that I won't spoil, but it's great. In the screening I was at ... see, this is the issue with animated films. Well, not issue. It's their fault, but it's like ... what also is fun to me, when these non-traditional animated films happen, and parents go like, "Oh, yeah, let's bring the kids to that." No, that was great. That was just great.

Anyways, "Garden Party" takes place at a seemingly abandoned luxury house as the amphibians, the toads and the frogs, come in and start exploring it and messing around with it. It turns into almost a party. This was apparently a graduation project for six students at the MoPA, which I assume is an animation school in France.

This one's really funny, and there's a lot of real fun jokes, playing with frogs and toads' natural instincts. There's a real clever storytelling throughout it. It's kind of an ingenious way to tell a story that happens ... I so don't want to spoil the ending for you, so I won't, but it tells an ingenious ending because there's one story, but then there's another story. There's the about and then there's the about-about, and the about-about is great. Well, okay, so the about is what the story's about, and then the about-about is what the about is about, if that makes any sense in a Donald Rumsfeldian sort of way. I hope it does. Look it up, it's an interesting concept.

Anyways, I guess more accurately, there's the plot, which is just the things that happen, and then there's the story, which is what is going on. Those are two ... they sound similar, but they're two very different ideals. It's a story that's told in epilogue, but you get thousands of little clues as to what happens.

You know what, F it, I'm just gonna spoil it. Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers. Please stop reading. Seriously, watch this. It's only seven minutes long. It'll be easier than that. Right at the end, you get signs at this rich person's house that something really bad happened, particularly that ... and right at the end, the amphibians go into the pool and oh, out comes the corpse, and oh my God, everybody in the theater was like, "Aah, eww!" But man, I loved that. That was hilarious to me. That was a lot of fun. That was the great grossest reveal I'd seen. That is a good, fun, little thing. So I recommend that.