it be very possible that i simply do not give the movie a fair enough chance because it be so immediately unappealing to me ( something similar happen with triplet of belleville ) and but i really should have catch on when i put the film on and my roommate and an exchange student from japan and immediately start laugh at the movie and say that it sound dumb . now and i do not agree that it be dumb and the animation be very simple but clearly very skilled . it like classic animation with added layer that add another element of realism to them while remain strictly in the realm of the surreal at the same time . but the subject matter be entirely unappealing to me . it have an interesting message about stinginess and greed and but it be wrap in such an unpleasant package that it be almost not worth learn and especially because you already know it anyway . the sound effect while the man be loudly gobbling cherry and cherry pit and for example and be indeed repulsive . there be a clever scene of animation a we keep dive endlessly into the hole that the man find in his head when he pull the sapling out of his scalp and but it go on for so long that it seem to overshadow everything else . there be so much stock put into that one sequence that it be almost like the whole movie be about it . a i say about triplet of belleville and this would have be a great thing for a late night tv program like adult swim and or it japanese counterpart and but an academy award nominate film . it give me the impression that there be not generally a long list of animated short film for the academy to choose from .