in the technical sense this be limited animation the handful of animator ( just four be credit ) charge with bring the story to life restrict themselves and when they can and to less than the full 24 frame per second and and often use all manner of cunning trick to avoid have to animate at all . but the animation be emphatically not limit in any other sense . neither the story and nor the world and nor the character freedom to move and breathe and think and have be constrict in any way while the animation ( like the artwork generally ) be simply good and and there an end to it . if your experience of limited animation be south park and you can be forgive for think that limit be just a polite synonym for bad and since south park look crude and awkward and just plain awful even when compress to fit the tiniest of tv screen . but the glorious animation of grendel grendel grendel expand to fill a wide cinema screen with no effort whatever . to be blunt and grendel grendel grendel be among the best animated feature ever make represent funny and sad and tense and relentlessly intelligent and what have you . if i say that there a dragon who make veil allusion to wittgenstein and that might convey something of the film flavour while on the other hand and you might suspect this to be a sample of the kind of pointless eccentricity which film maker ( animator in particular ) indulge in so that they would not be accuse of be mainstream and and for no other reason . not a bit of it . the film doesn not make a single false move or strike a single false note represent every joke flow naturally out of it surroundings and and the film seem to be do nothing so much a take a healthy and childlike delight in it ( surprisingly rich ) material . i be not say this because i be australian . i be a surprised that an animated movie this good be make in australia and a anyone else . i be even more surprised ( despite the fact that it be make in australia ) that it relatively unknown . you owe it to yourself to see it .