The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I cannot describe how much I am amused by this short film. Also, this film gives me a practical lesson how up and down are properly arranged for optimum effects. A young alien, who seems like a freshman, tries to practice abducting human by the spaceship technology under the supervision of a predecessor, which is not going smoothly at all. Many funny moments are brought by the continuous failure. For instance, after a sequence of struggling, he gets impatient and flicks switches randomly on the spacecraft control panel, causing the sleeping man to crash into walls, ceilings, trees... Finally he gets the man out of window, but he dropped the man again. Then the up comes. His predecessor steps in, fixing everything in house in order and putting the human back to bed. Instead of taking over the control of panel, the predecessor gives him another chance. The young freshman manages to drop the whole spaceship on the human's house, before flying off. The scream from the abductee in the end gives me a last surprise, which is the point of this film I especially like.Pixar short films are well known by the way it handles characters. The protagonist's expressive face and his predecessor's poker face intensify the amusement in a contrary way. Lifted is a great film for laughter, but it might fail in building vivid characters. After finish watching the film, audiences should have had emotional connection to the character, but audiences of Lifted might rarely think about the background or off-scene stories of either the clumsy freshman or the skilled predecessor. They are just there for entertainment.

"Lifted" is a short about aliens trying to abduct someone but failing over and over due to the complicated ship controls. It started of funny, but the joke got old quickly for me, and I liked the 'cold' alien boss more than the goofy alien protagonist that i was supposed to like. The ending joke was also quite predictable. Great animation, as expected, that might make it worth the watch anyway, but in my opinion, one does not miss much by not watching this short.

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.

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.