With an average user rating of 8.4 HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG is one of the most highly regarded animated short films you will ever see but personally speaking I fail to see what all the fuss is about
I notice some of the people on this page have mentioned that the story is full of ideas but I can't really see any type of subtext . To me all I can see is yet another animated film featuring humanized anthromophised animals working in some sort of symbiosis . I suppose being a Soviet made film there might be the vague subtext that humanity is better off working together - Hence all animals are shown to be friends - but that's open to discussion . I also notice that this site gives the original Soviet cast in the credits and the version I saw was an English language version so maybe something was lost in translation ?
As for the animation it is like the story very basic and features what is effectively a cardboard cut out of a hedgehog stuck on a foggy background and I must admit I found it a somewhat static type of animation and I'm afraid I saw the brilliant screen version of Richard Adams WATERSHIP DOWN which is quite possibly the greatest piece of animated storytelling I have ever seen which made HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG even more disappointing
I notice some of the people on this page have mentioned that the story is full of ideas but I can't really see any type of subtext . To me all I can see is yet another animated film featuring humanized anthromophised animals working in some sort of symbiosis . I suppose being a Soviet made film there might be the vague subtext that humanity is better off working together - Hence all animals are shown to be friends - but that's open to discussion . I also notice that this site gives the original Soviet cast in the credits and the version I saw was an English language version so maybe something was lost in translation ?
As for the animation it is like the story very basic and features what is effectively a cardboard cut out of a hedgehog stuck on a foggy background and I must admit I found it a somewhat static type of animation and I'm afraid I saw the brilliant screen version of Richard Adams WATERSHIP DOWN which is quite possibly the greatest piece of animated storytelling I have ever seen which made HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG even more disappointing