Feast (2014)

Not only that, but I actually preferred it to the film it accompanied Big Hero 6, though that was still a very good film and one of Disney's better films since the Renaissance. As a big fan of Disney, other than ending ever so slightly predictably Feast was an absolute treat, dealing with its mature subject simply and maturely.It's beautifully animated for a start, style-wise it's clever with its mix of hand-drawn and computer animation, it's beautifully drawn and modelled and the colours are vibrant and vivid. The music has energy and sweet charm, which is fitting with the tone of the story. It's simply but charmingly written with plenty of amusement and heart, likable in characterisation with sweet characters, without being mawkish, and voiced with enthusiasm but the star here is the story. The story is short and simple, but told in a cute, touching and heart-warming way with some nice humour thrown into the mix, was impressed with how much it packed in in a short running time and as said already how it dealt its subject matter with such mature simplicity and not at all shallowly or overdone in sentimentality.All in all, I found Feast to be a beautiful short and it deserved its Academy Award/Oscar win. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Compared to some of the other more dramatically searching and artistically adventurous animated shorts this year, it was a surprise that this well made but conventional short from Disney was the Oscar winner. Especially since its premise seems to owe a lot to the much more interesting "Adam and Dog" which was nominated in 2011. The story of Adam and Eve as perceived around the edges of Adam's relationship with his dog seemed deeper and more involving than this much more superficial picture of a guy and his girlfriend as perceived by the man's cute dog, eagerly awaiting every meal. Still, Feast is very well made and charming.

Absolutely tasteless and totally wrong. Beware of this animation short, it could damage your kids behavior! "Feast"(2014) animated short in just 6 minutes had been promoting: 1.Fast Food unhealthy diet and human obesity connected with that: dog's owner character (out of the focus hero) is unshapely obese. 2.Compulsive Eating Disorder: "when in trouble eat a lot of ice- cream!" 3. Hatred for vegetables: Puppy puking in the kid's animated short?? Really! 4. Neglect of your pet's health via wrong diet: Wouldn't your kids think it is cool to feed your family dog with all the food trash left after watching this short? 5. Reproducing all these mentioned above wrong ways in the behavior of the newborn kid of the pet owners characters.And the Academy Award of the year goes for the 6 min of kid's total brainwashing.

"Feast" is a short film by Disney which is being shown before the feature "Big Hero 6". While I did like this short, I was very surprised by it graphically, as it featured cel shaded graphics-- something that was briefly popular (especially with video games) about a decade ago. Now this is NOT a complaint--I really didn't mind the look of the film at all.The story is about a dog and its owner. The dog LOVES the owner because the guy spoils him rotten--giving it LOTS of human food. And, each time you see the dog, he's eating SOMETHING terrible for it, such as meatballs or bacon and eggs! However, when the man begins dating, suddenly the dog's diet changes--presumably because the man's diet changes to match the lady's. Now, the dog is getting good for you stuff--and the creature is miserable. While this would seem like a film that is a complaint about how women get between dogs and their beloved owners (such as in the Oscar-nominated "Adam and Dog"), it wasn't-- and its nice twist is why I am scoring this one so high. Inventive and very sweet...there's a good chance you'll see this film nominated in the Best Animated Short category at the Oscars.UPDATE: This film won the Oscar. I assume this might be due, in part, to this being the only nominee that received a large scale release (with "Big Hero 6").