This movie is really funny from the beginning to the end. A quiet night, a young man sleeps in his bed. And an UFO flies outside the house. All of a sudden, he is lifted by invisible power! He sleeps sound and does not notice what is going on him. And now, he nearly go out from the window, he bumps against the wall! The alien which trys to do human abduction seems to be inexperienced. Actually, this is practical exam of human abduction. This short movie taught me the fundamental thing: Everyone is once beginner, even aliens. It is very funny if an immature alien pilot really stuggles to kidnap a human just like an immature driver struggles to carry his first passenger to her destination. And alien's expression is also just like human. I sympathize with the alien. Of course I won't encourage human abduction. Beginer has many trouble. Trial and error is nessecary. And the structure is really good. You don't know what happens for the first time and cannot expect what happens in the end.

A sleeping man is visited by aliens in a flying saucer. As the familiar scenes of alien abduction start playing out, it turns out that the abductors are experiencing certain technical difficulties. What is it that these nefarious aliens really want?Lifted is a very funny animated short that takes a familiar and clichéd story -alien abduction- and has fun with it. The comedy is mainly physical, taking the form of slapstick as the unfortunate sleeper is accidentally tossed around with the flying saucer's beam. Inside the saucer, we see the unprepared pilot wrestle with the saucer's impossibly complicated controls as well as with the unflinching gaze of his superior. The animation style of Lifted is not particularly distinctive, but works well. There is no spoken dialogue in the film, and as such everything is conveyed through action only.I thought that the concept of this short was pretty interesting, and that it had the potential to be transformed into a longer film. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be in the works.

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.

Two characters in this short film look gross like monsters, but it's very funny because they seem to treat a sleeping boy as a pawn in the game. Although it's an only 5-minute film, it's enough for us to enjoy this work. I don't understand what the purpose of making it is actually, and I guess it's just for fun as killing time. So, I'd like you to watch it during lunch time, before sleeping, when you feel sad, or when you want to have fun and laugh a lot. If I can use the machine in it, I want to enjoy using it carefully although I'm supposed to make the boy die instead.