Soar (2014) User Reviews

Great animation but not much else

[Imdbidia · 6/10 · 8 January 2017]

Soar is a beautiful short film. It has Pixar or Disney world-class animation quality: crystal clear images, good movement, great backgrounds, beautiful natural colors, good play of lights, and cute characters. Technically excellent.

The film starts with a girl trying to fly a toy airplane, over and over again, following a design map, but without any success. Then she finds a little fallen creature and tries to help her fly again. And little more happens in the story. It is beautiful to watch, has a nice feeling and a beautiful ending.

I see this short film more as an exercise in animation than an exercise in movie making, as the narrative is weak. I'm not saying it is bad, as the story has many possibilities for development, and feels like a scene taken from a feature film where the story will be properly developed.But this is not the case, and so the story feels flat, underdeveloped and not well-rounded, just another cute short.

Sweet Film About Growing Up

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 23 April 2019]

A little girl dreams of flying but then meets a miniature of herself and assists that person in accomplishing flight. Nice animation and colorful images make it work well enough. I just wasn't taken by it as much as some. There is a charm to it, but it doesn't carry the film.

A Growth Mindset Film

[kcrowther-15310 · 10/10 · 13 December 2017]

In this short movie soar, a little girl made a small plane it did not succeed, then she met a fairy that crashed her plane. When her group keeps going she is stuck there. It is up to the two of them to help the fairy catch up to her group. The music did a great job showing how the characters felt even with no words. It is also very funny. This film does a great job teaching you how to have a growth mindset. It also teaches you about teamwork. I wish that it had some way of explaining what's happening in this film, especially since it doesn't have talking or a narrator. I would recommend this short film to anybody who is having trouble with something.

a meeting

[Kirpianuscus · 22 August 2016]

friendship. and fly. an accident. and the not easy success. in one of most touching manner. a film about simple things in precise manner. the flavor of fairy tale. the fear and the help. the patience. and the prize of effort. like each 3 D animation, it is seductive at whole. but not exactly for the images or animation itself but for a story who reminds manners to help, miracles and the pure joy. a girl. and a traveler. an accident. and the efforts to redefine the normal state. and the sky. Soar is one of precise gifts for redefine a form of seductive joy. naive. and well known. but important. for this splendid message.

I wish this film would do what the title implies

[Horst_In_Translation · 4/10 · 30 August 2017]

"Soar" is an American 7-minute short film (5 minutes without credits) from 2004 and at this point today still the only writing and directing credit for Alyce Tzue. It's the animated story of a young woman finding a tiny human-like creature that apparently crashed with his spaceship and is now in danger of being left behind unless he quickly flies back up to join his people. It's actually how unharmed he is given the several times he fell down. Anyway, animation here is fine, even if I felt there was something strange with the tiny guy's face expressions. But the woman and the landscapes look fine. The story is a bit too simple, even for this runtime. It never delivers in this department and the filmmaker's attempt to go out on a high note with the star scene and the music trying to convince us how special that moment was felt rather embarrassing I would say because honestly everything before that felt so shallow mostly. One example would be how scared the little guy is initially, but seconds later he warms up to the woman already as if they were the best friends. It may be because of her warm aura. That one she does have indeed, but that simply doesn't cut the cake as an explanation. Imagine you meet a little mouse, that's maybe the right approach in size and proportion, and think of how scared she will be the first days, yet this little guy is 100% trusting minutes later. The common goal (an altruist for the woman) is also not a sufficient explanation. There is really nothing to this short film except the visual side and if Tzue decides to return to filmmaking, I hope she has improved on writing in the meantime. This is just for the very biggest animation fans here. Everybody else can skip it. Oh yeah, no spoken dialogues in here, so you won't need subtitles even if you aren't fluent in English.

I love it

[jimvandemoter-50236 · 10/10 · 14 April 2022]

I honestly don't understand the low ratings on this film. In only six minutes it goes from frustration to heartbreak to ultimate triumph. The animation is beautiful, the story is sweet, I loved it. Beautiful little film.