Lava
Dir: James Ford Murphy
2014
****
You can't beat a Pixar short. James Ford Murphy's Lava follows a series of brilliantly inventive animations that can often outshine the main features that it precedes. When you breakdown the idea behind Lava, it's completely nuts but somehow Pixar always seem to make the bizarre somewhat normal, fantastic but believable, albeit in a funny kind of way. That's the magic of Pixar. On paper i'm sure the idea of two Volcanoes falling in love would have had even the most open-minded of executives raising an eyebrow but with a story of such purity that is so beautifully animated, with an extremely catchy and effective song, I guess it was a no brainer.