Film
Even Mice Belong in Heaven
- Director
- Jan Bubenicek, Denisa Grimmová
- Certificate
- U
- Running Time
- 82 mins
When a mouse and a fox cark it, they both wind up in Animal Heaven, which seems to resemble some kind of celestial theme park. Here the rodent and his vulpine enemy lose their natural instincts and become chums. Cute, huh?
This revoiced Czech flick is a lovingly crafted stop-motion puppet animation in Wallace and Gromit style. Better yet, it spares us much of the grim bolierplate infant wokery that characterises the life lessons imparted by so many modern kids’ animations and gets the little blighters to think about death – in a jolly, upbeat, unthreatening kind of way, obviously. The Guardian praised the film’s “quirky, colourful characters and gorgeous detail”, while observing that there’s not much of a plot, unless you count a series of daft quests.
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