Partly Cloudy (2009)

A charming Pixar short that accompanies its feature length films at the cinema.Kids would love to know where all the cute babies, puppies, kittens and rabbits come from. Its from those fluffy clouds where they are all wrapped up delivered ready by flying Storks. All happily delivering joy to the world.However the planet is not all cuddly babies and puppies. What about baby alligators, hedgehogs, sharks. The kind of thing that do not have the necessary cute attributes.This is a tale of the dark cloud which has all the spiky jobs where as its neighbours has the more cuddly deliveries and its also the story of his attached Stork who have risk his few remaining feathers delivering spiky hedgehogs, snappy alligators to proud parents whilst gazing wilfully at the other storks with easier tasks.A short that is fun and interesting.

As someone who is consistently impressed with Pixar, I really enjoyed Partly Cloudy. It is not one of Pixar's best, not like Geri's Game, Presto, One Man Band and Knick Knack, but there is much to like and it compliments Up(the feature film that succeeds it). As with all Pixar's work, it is beautifully animated, the clouds may occasionally have a slightly cotton wool look to them, but the characters are well modelled and the colours and backgrounds are gorgeous. The music is understated with a nostalgic feel to it, and while not laugh out loud funny like Presto for instance Partly Cloudy is still entertaining. It also has a very cute and charming story and the characters especially the messenger of the black cloud are endearing. Overall, while not Pixar's best it is definitely worth watching for its cuteness and for how beautiful it looks. 9/10 Bethany Cox

I only found out a little while before seeing this that Pixar had been bought by Walt Disney Pictures studios, it does make sense, and Disney can afford it, also owning Miramax. Anyway, this was the short computer animated film shown before the full-length feature of Disney and Pixar's tenth outing with Up. The film opens with storks carrying many baby humans and animals to their designated destinations, after they have been formed by the cuddly looking cloud characters. It focuses on the insecure grey cloud, Gus, who can't quite make the same cute creatures as all the other clouds, meaning that the loyal stork willing taking deliveries from him, Peck, is in for all sorts of trouble. He suffers crocodile bites, ram buts and porcupine pricks. Peck is tempted to go to another cloud after seeing many other nicer creations, which makes Gus thundering mad, and cry with rain, but Peck knows he wouldn't leave his friend, and gets himself protective gear to carry on, and deliver an electric eel. A very well-animated, funny and cute family cartoon short that I can see wining the Oscar for Best Short Animated Film. Very good!

At first this short looked like it was going to be decent, but I completely changed my opinion once they show how funny it can get with using a basic "baby delivering storks" element. Throughout the short it shows clouds that create infant humans and animals of all kinds and have the storks deliver them to their new families. One of the storks was trying to find an infant human or animal to deliver, but the cloud he comes to only makes slightly dangerous infant animals. Which makes the stork's job a little harder than the other ones are getting.I admit it was a good short, with some surprising good laughs. I don't have the heart to rank it higher than my other favorite Pixar shorts, but doesn't mean I hate it. I would definitely watch it again.