Review of When the Wind Blows

I was really excited to see this movie and couldn't have been more disappointed. While I'm sure this was intended to be some left-wing commie hippie anti-war movie, playing on the emotions of idiots, it's just an hour and a half of stupid. I must say that the animation is actually quite unique. They mix animation and live action in a very strange way and it really looks good. Unfortunately the story itself is total crap. The official description on this site calls the elderly couple "naive". I assume that was written by the same PC idiot who wrote this movie. They are far beyond naive, they are downright stupid. When the old man says there is going to be a missile strike, the old woman complains about commies going on strike and says they should all be locked up. Less than 5 minutes later she is talking about how much she loves Stalin. She asks her husband who runs Russia now and he says Marx has something to do with it. After the bomb drops they ramp up the stupidity but it's not funny anymore as you watch these two elderly morons die. It's a real shame that such great animation was wasted on such a terrible story. I give 3 stars for the animation, the story is a -10.