A lolling clarinet intro sets the tone for this animated short. Badgered is all about a sleepy badger’s attempt to get rid of a couple of crows perched outside his hole. The plot is pretty simple and there’s really nothing groundbreaking at all about the animation, but this simple setup manages to be clever, hilarious and meaningful all at the same time.
Our poor badger friend is not only bothered by the crows. During his quest for rest, men come and build a weapons installation in the hill under his hole. This not only makes a racket but also intrudes upon his den. The collision of technology and nature is used for added humor but it also makes an interesting point. The more we intrude upon nature, the more awkward it gets for animals to exist in their own natural habitat.
Maybe there is a more anti-military or anti-war message to be gleaned from Badgered but I just took it as a nature-meets-technology thing. There’s no dialogue; just animal sounds and electrical instruments beeping and blaring. It’s never boring which means the humor never dies. This makes Badgered a success as an animated short because you will enjoy it every time you see it. Perhaps it’s true that sometimes it’s the simplest things that make life worthwhile.
A lolling clarinet intro sets the tone for this animated short. Badgered is all about a sleepy badger’s attempt to get rid of a couple of crows perched outside his hole. The plot is pretty simple and there’s really nothing groundbreaking at all about the animation, but this simple setup manages to be clever, hilarious and meaningful all at the same time.
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