HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

ChampDavSlim The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Jeff-1330 Fakt: This is a work that matches its ambitions. It successfully takes on the task of using the most whimsical of mediums to ask the most difficult question: "Does life really matter?" Of course, that question is the knockout punch. You won't see it coming until you're punch-drunk from its sarcastic jabs about the absurdity of existence. Its humor definitely stays close the the pain that gives it power. Some may be offended by its disdainful, even disrespectful treatment of Christianity. Harvie Krumpet finds his answer to the question elsewhere. But, by making a point of mocking Christianity, this film invites not scorn, but a rebuttal work of equal artistic grade (a tall order). All-in-all this film accomplishes more in twenty minutes than most can in two hours. Not bad.

Stibbert Harvie Krumpet is a strange little man and life has never been on his side. This film tells his story and takes you on the journey.The story is very well written and it mix drama and comedy very good. It is very funny, but still serious. The story is unique and original for a short film and it turns out quite good on the screen. The characters are charming and good. You really have sympathy for them and you get to know them. Especially Harvie. The animation is very good. It's stop motion clay animation in the best Nick Park style. It's very impressive. The narration by Geoffrey Rush is very good. I was skeptical when I saw that this film lasted for 20 minutes, but 20 minutes later I wondered where the time went. The film thrilled me and got me hooked and I was never bored. It turned and twisted and kept the audience interested.All together a very good and very charming little short film about the outsiders in society. A movie well worth to watch.

jpschapira I spent a long time thinking what could I write about this cinematographic event I had watched; a short. I thought to myself: I'll make it short. Whether I make it shot or not, it will take for you less time to read it than the time the actual short takes: 23 minutes.This short is "Harvie Krumpet", the story of a retarded boy, who travels through the world in life, and has many problems, but also a family who he raises like his parents raised him. "Life is like a cigarette…Smoke it up", is one of the "fakts" Harvie discovers at some point of his life. Yes, I know it is not well written but Harvie's mother was some kind of aborigine.Adam Elliot, "the man" and the owner of a creative mind must have come up with a complete one person life at some point of his career, after creating stories of different members of families in even shorter duration time. His trilogy "Uncle", "Cousin" and "Brother" is the lives of these three different family members.As I know "Harvie Krumpet" is the only thing I've seen and believe I'll see from this writer and director; and is important to say he respects his way of making films and that he kept it in his road to the Oscar. He doesn't seem to like character talking that much, so as he did with one person in the first trilogy with each family member, he gets a nice and warm voice to tell the story of his character, Harvie Krumpet here.Although in this short some characters were allowed to speak some words, the voice chosen was the respected and known Australian actor Geoffrey Rush, who gives a special touch to the film that is written, directed and with cinematography by Elliot, who can now take in editors and mixers, because before he had to do it by himself.It is a good short and the Oscar for best animated short, it won. I hope I was short enough.

Robert Reynolds To be quite frank, I expected Destino to win the Oscar and was surprised and a bit disappointed on hearing that another short had won instead. Until I finally saw Harvie Krumpet the other day. Here there be mild Spoilers.Harvie Krumpet is both funny and frightening, sometimes at the same time. A modern-day version of Job (Job would probably look at Harvie's life and shudder), Harvie goes through a life that is tedious and tragic, all the while collecting "fakts" that are interspersed as graphics throughout the short.There are sight gags aplenty here. You'll never look at a pair of false teeth in quite the same way after you watch this. Given that this is set from the 1920s through the 1980s, some of the references are topical and somewhat dated and I'm sure there are in-jokes and references that anyone more familiar with Australia would get that I missed, but I found this extremely engaging and well worth my time. Though there are a couple of nominees I haven't seen yet, I think that this one probably won the Oscar walking away, deserved to and certainly is no disgrace to the Academy in having done so. Happily it is currently in print. Most highly recommended.