"It's Such a Beautiful Day"

"It's Such a Beautiful Day" (short), 2011. A man with unspecified neurological problems, chapter three.

Written by, directed by & starring Don Hertzfeldt.

Concept: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Story: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Characters: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Dialog: 4/4 (Great)
Pacing: 2/4 (Indifferent). It's the first Don Hertzfeldt film where I found myself checking the time.
Cinematography: 4/4 (Great)
Special effects/design: 4/4 (Great)
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent). The voice work continues to be mediocre, but this time the animation doesn't make up for it - the character is too out of it to warrant any acting.
Music: 3/4 (Good)
Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great, 4/4). There's hardly any humor. There's none of the amazing expressiveness to the animation that I loved so much in the previous installment. Mostly the focus is on special effects and novel visuals. It's a beautiful, and beautifully sad, film, but it's more pretentious than fun.
Objective Rating (Average): 2.9/4 (Good)