I liked this series of short clips very much. It just goes to show how we in the UK are so different to those of our Italian neighbours. The animation was very good which made good use of flash, and the music was OK but I have heard better. I could not stop laughing whilst I was watching these clips and I look forward to seeing the next episode.

This is funny even if you've never been to Europe. I'm a weird American because I like European humor, but I can't help it. It's funny. This was some pretty simple animation with no reason to be complicating or astounding. Besides, 1999 wasn't exactly the prime time of terrific Flash animation. Something you should definitely check it out.

Generally comedy in animation works best when it is meticulously planned. It doesn’t necessary need to be a big-budget driven, contemporary style piece to be good. Heck, you can get away with the simplest of geometric shapes if you work out what you can and can’t do, working with the limitations of your chosen system; as demonstrated here in one of Bruno Bozzetto’s fun little flash piece about the differences of EU and Italy customs.

With Flash’s limitations, flat geometric shapes also translate into easier to animation, cheaper to store in memory and therefore can run smoother; this has to be one of the smoothest animation Flash has shown me. It also the funniest by a stretch, mostly due to the superb timing on the maker’s part, the supposed truth of what is being said and the occasional surprisingly piece of oddball.

His other shorts are good as well, on the recommendations front, I really like the “Yes and No” one, a great little commentary on driving habits.

I suppose this little short only made it to the profiles because it's Bruno Bozzetto's work. The quality and timing is there, however the detail lacks, but for the better, since it's a short, a satire, and done in flash. This is a hilarious little piece I managed to catch on Newgrounds.com.

The useage of humor to poke fun at his country's (stereotyped, but playfully at that) customs and culture is done ingeniously. The entire short is compromised of mere circles that are filled in with the color of the country's flag, (or in Europe's case, the entire continent). These small figures however, entertain the entire screen and are cutely laughable. I highly recommend this little piece for mindless entertainment purposes, and to check out his other shorts, such as the 'Olympics' one, and 'Adam'

note: my rating has been revised, since I stopped trying to compare everything with feature films (7/07)

Anyone who has any ambitions of combining animation and comedy should watch this, or one of Bruno Bozzetto's shorts. Bozzetto has been working on a plethora of projects in Italy since the 1960's. His latest medium seems to be web-based flash animations, which means you get to see the latest Bozzetto shorts without having to chase up a DVD release.

Using little else but equipment you could probably use from your own home, geometric shapes, captions, sound effects and great comic timing, Bozzetto manages to be funnier in a few minutes than Dreamworks or Disney usually do in a million-dollar-a-minute feature film.

Check out some of his other animations while you're at his site. They're all worth watching.