First off, it was funny, Oh so Funny.
The movie started off with a simple screen stating "Episode 0! The Blinkers" or something like that. The story was simply put, two siblings, I'd asume twins, are eating breakfast. The boy challenges the girl to a stare off. The rest of the "Short" shows the two going through daily activitys of life, school and such, until the next morning where they're interrupted by their mom and they have to start their staring contest over again. {By the way, all throughout the movie, the Blinker twins can be seen staring and not blinking.}
Then, cue the standard movie opening.
OR not.
Our Narrator, the main hero of the story, goes to tell us of his surroundings and daily activitys. So, he goes to tell the story of a magical "Wishing Stone" only, he messes up the story's order.
"Looks like I'll have to tell this story out of order in a series of 'shorts.'"
Hence the name of the movie.
Cut to "Episode 2!", showing our hero/narator, Toe Toe-something (The names in this movie, did I mention, are verry "same sound"-ish. {Like "Peter Parker"}), going through his daily routine, which is verry long winded with brushing his teeth (before eating breakfast, I might add. This routine which I've seen on tv and in magazines for years just doesn't make any sense to me! Why brush BEFORE eating?!) due to his braces. So, he walks to school, and encounters the local bully gang, who happen to be ran by the son and daughter of the corporate head of the local business, who just so happens to run the town. So, Our hero Toe goes to tell his bullys off, by psycho analyzing the girl, and saying she's in love with him. Well, add on the fact that she has braces too, and it all works out, even adding in the fact that she has the gang push him into a trash can.
So, Toe has survivved another school day, and is walking home, when the bullys come along to bully him. Again. Our hero climbs into a tree, and the bullys try to stone him out of it, the last stone tossed just happens to be a rainbow translucent stone.
Our fabled wishing rock.
Long story short, our hero wishes for little alien friends, and tries to hide them in class, resulting in his (not)Love interrest trying to eat his pet fish, and resulting in the both of them tumbeling out a window onto the ground below.
Arm casts for the both of 'em.
So, the two arch-nemisses are forced to eat lunch together and share detention. And intro the friend named "Lugi" (I think) and cue...
..."Episode 1!"
Well, a day before, Lugi and his brothers are booooooored out of their minds. It's raining. Or atleast, it was. They follow a Rainbow to it's end, and...
...OOOH! SHINY....
...The Rainbow Wish rock is sitting there.
Lugi picks it up and wishes he knew what it was. The rock tells him...
"It's a wishing rock...!"
"How do you know?!"
"It told me!"
They wish for the instructions, and a giant book appears before them. Forgoing that, they ask for a simplified set of instructions. They get a fortune cookie that says "Make a wish." Simple, eh?
So, some random wishes later, and our trio of brothers find themselves ontop of a castle tower with an army of wall walking alligators (Or was it Crocodiles?) right around them.
Lugi wishes for "Telephonesis", placing a telephone receiver through his head (imagine those arrows through the head joke props), and resulting in...
"'TELEKENESIS' YOU DUMMY!"
...from Lugi's brothers. Lugi makes the correct wish, and then wishes they were home again once the crocodiles are gone. Next wish up is that "one of us were super smart!" so that they could make proper wishes. Their baby sister gets the smarts, so the brothers wish for a catapult, and launch the stone off, only realizing moments later that they could have wished for other things that may have helped the world. Ah, I'd tell you guys the rest, but, spoilers and all, You should go see it.
Great movie, "Shorts", go see it.
Go.
See it.
Now.
Or tomorrow.
But Go See It.
Or...
I'll wish you into a Scarabax Beetle if ya don't!
_DTC
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