A sleeping human rests on his bed when a gigantic UFO appears and, hell-bent on it, attempts to take him away. The animation sets the scene as something mysterious, something that the spectator is expecting to see in an UFO movie, which later on adds to the humorisity of it all when the alien keeps on trying to take the human away without success, making the viewer realise that this isn't a normal short. There's no dialogue, but the visual storytelling (the expressions of the aliens, the circumstances in which the youn alien is in) is so great that it isn't needed. The constant mistakes of the alien and the absolute blank-face of his partner are hilarious, but the story has time to turn a little heartwarming before making the audience laugh again. The ending is truly the cherry on top of this humorous short.

Animation is my weakness. To me, it is easier to get envolved with the story when real people do not take part in it (acting). The story is simple; a young alien comes to Earth to take his "abduction exam", as if it was a "driver license exam", and things don't go very well during the exam. As many other PIXAR SHORT FILMS, the purpose of Lifted is to make the audience laugh. Well, I laughed.. And the nicest thing is that even though you can figure what is going to happen next during the whole time, you end up laughing. I may be terribly wrong, but my impression is that one of the reasons for such thing is the usage of sounds; every sound just fits perfectly with each scene.

This is a story of two aliens. In many movies, aliens are expressed uncannily, or sometimes, they are enemies of humans. But in it, the aliens are expressed amusingly. One of them is a probationer and he is not good at lifting things. In the last scene, he crashes the UFO on the human boy's house. The other one is a teacher and is trained in controlling the UFO. There is a scene that he tries to encourage the probationer, so the contrast between two aliens is very interesting. This is only a five-minute movie, but the structure is clear and the story is well organized.

I learned a lot from this short movie. Especially, the greatest point of this is that is a silent film. There is no dialogue that we can understand. There is only sound effects. So, people regardless of age or gender can enjoy each scene. Moreover even hearing-impaired people can easily understand the whole story. In this movie, failure is explored. However we can know that making mistakes is not bad. Pixar change the mistakes from the idea of being bad things to idea of being funny things. Pixar never forget the humor in making movies from the beginning to the end. This short movie also consists of the funny beginning and end. I think the beginning is the most important for movies because audience may stop watching if the beginning is boring. I also think if the audience thought that they want to watch more, it means the movie was successful. Pixar including Lifted taught me such things.