If you think "Bear's Day" was sleep inducing, then wait till you watch this one. A stop-motion Italian animation created by Michela Donini and Katya Rinaldi, the story follows a caterpillar and hen who happen to be the best best friends, but with nature being the way that it is, soon enough the two will have to part ways in life.
While I will admit that the "Caterpillar and Hen" has a lovely look to it (I can see that so much love and effort was put into the details), with the vibrant coloured wools that are used as well as the cute character designs (... even the caterpillar... though, maybe not the butterfly), the pacing is just so incredibly slow that I don't think any child could really sit through the whole thing unless they had enough food on their laps to keep themselves still. There were some sound effects, but otherwise it was an incredibly quiet animation too, which really doesn't help at all in keeping one's attention.
Some things don't really make sense in the story (EVEN if it's meant for children), while I understand that everyone and anything can be friends with one another in a cartoon, there were just so many things that weren't clearly explained until the very end, such as the hen's motives, and we as the audience weren't necessarily sure about the relationship between the caterpillar and her either (Even then we wouldn't really have known that they were best friends have it not been for the text summary in the festival book). It might have helped if a little text introduction was given in the beginning.
It was a beautifully styled animation, but the storytelling really needs a lot more work, especially if this was targeted mainly at children, no offence.
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