"Hamilton Mattress" is a British animated short that runs for half an hour and was directed by Oscar nominee Barry Purves, who is probably more known than his two writers here, sadly one of them dead. If you don't know the story or characters, then this really could be anything as the title does not give anything away what this could be about. It is the story of an aardvark who wants to be a successful drummer and his caterpillar friend. The antagonists are a group of angry birds, but this is certainly not a fable despite all these humanized animal characters. I'd say the beginning was solid, but the longer the film goes the less interested I became in the story. As for the characters, they have some good and bad moments. I wouldn't really blame the voice actors though. The title character is voiced by David Thewlis from Harry Potter and there are more known names in here, at least to British film buffs. Some of them voice several characters too. It's all very mediocre as a whole, the story, the comedy, the animation and the entire product. I am one who thinks that adults can find a great deal of pleasure in animated films, but this award-winning television special rarely does it for me. If anything, it's worth seeing for the bizarrity of it all. Admittedly, there aren't any real failure moments in here either, but with the high level we got these days in terms of animated films, that just isn't enough anymore for a recommendation. Skip this one.
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