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REVIEW OF TOM THUMB

Mike Mayoka
Film I
Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb
The film "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb" was one that blended many traditional
styles of Film making into one concise and creative format.
It is this creative blend of pixilation, claymation, and animation that make this film
interesting and fresh to me. While viewing the film, I was absorbed in the manner in
which the characters interacted with each other with nearly no sound to speak of. Instead
the usual grunting that they used was enough to allow the audience to follow the flows
and actions of those in each scene. Personally though, I felt that this choice of leaving
the film in a more silent than spoken, held the film back from reaching it's full
potential.
The methods used to shoot this film allowed for more creative characters, scenes and more
ingenious shots. The little people, like Tom Thumb, were able to have been filmed taking
part in some rather odd antics; including the laboratory scenes, the miniature town
scenes, and when Tom and his friend ambushed the two humans with blow darts.
Crossing the claymation with the pixilation of the human world was a very nice transitory
measure as far as keeping the continuity rolling well. The effects that were created
helped to make this movie as interesting and original as it is. I enjoyed the film very
much, and would like to see any others made by this group of filmmakers