What the f**k did I just watch?Don Hertzfeldt Oscar winning short film, 'Rejected' is 9 minutes of complete weirdness and utter nonsense, but it's also different and kinda refreshing to watch, and that's why I enjoyed the movie a lot. I liked Don Hertzfeldt previous movies such as: It's Such a Beautiful Day, World of Tomorrow, and now Rejected.The type of humor used in Rejected may or may not make everyone laugh but I did as the kid within me can laugh at silly things sometimes. I highly recommend Rejected to people who like creative and also strange ideas that comes together very smoothly.

I seriously cannot understand how anyone on this planet can find this funny! It is scandalous, disgusting, does not make any sense at all and is highly unwatchable. It was even hard for me to watch it, and right now I'm shocked what a waste of time it actually was. Why do you guys find it funny? What makes you laugh about ugly, poorly animated cartoons with annoying 'characters', with their even more annoying voices, the incredibly primitive, meaningless 'plot'? How can a mentally healthy man find all this funny, and how can anyone give it 10 out of 10? I give 1 out of 10, but just because there is no option of minuses or at least zero.

When I first saw this film, it was with all the other Oscar-nominated short films for 2000, animated and live action. The set took about 2.5 hours to get through, and being the cream of the crop from the year, these were some brilliant, well polished movies, though I was ready to be done. The last film was Rejected. The opening sequence is simply the word "REJECTED" in a typewriter font shaking around as though it had been shot on a hand-held 8mm camera held by someone on speed, and the music, an orchestra at full tilt. Instantly, I knew something was different. Within 40 more seconds, my friend and I were doubled over in our seats and crying from laughter. I bought the DVD as soon as it was available to share with all of my friends and that disc has been played more than all of my other DVDs combined (I particularly enjoyed the director's commentary). It confuses a lot of people but elates the rest, but everyone can appreciate the last two minutes as a great piece of animated film.

Rejected (nominated for an Academy Award) is quite simply one of the most stupid, insane pieces of American animation to come in this new decade. There's no plot, just a series of little animated short films by Don Hertzfeldt, an animator who wanted to get some commercial spots with his ads. The result is what's before you, what was entirely rejected, yet repackaged here for the public. Some shorts involve almost nothing at all (albeit with a surprising words from the creatures), others involve surreal images of talking bananas, weird dancing things, and an bleeding incident.The first time I saw this film, it was a very funny way to kill ten minutes. I watched it with an audience at my university, and almost all of us were cracking up. But then when I watched it again with other friends, I didn't laugh as hard, and they didn't laugh at all. So really, besides the aesthetic interest in the film (sometimes the animation starts to deconstruct on itself, with repeated scribblings put to focus), it's a very subjective viewing. You can either lose yourself in the ridiculousness and catch phrases, or be completely turned off by the lengths to which is wants you to laugh. But it is very memorable, and it's the kind of film I want to see again in several months to a year, when it will be even fresher.