Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Babies are hardly monster-like, unless you're a toy. After escaping a drooling baby, Tinny realizes that he wants to be played with after all. But in the amount of time it takes him to discover this, the baby's attention moves on to other things only an infant could find interesting.
Tin Toy is a landmark Pixar short — the first computer-animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Its novelty is exceptional: the baby's perspective on toys as terrifying creatures was a genuinely original comedic conceit, and the technical achievement of animating a realistic human baby in 1988 CGI was groundbreaking. The plot is simple but charming and effective for a short. Acting is not applicable in a traditional sense (no voice cast), so it scores lowest as there are no performances to evaluate. Cinematography is competent and purposeful for the format. The ending is satisfying if slight — Tinny's reversal of desire undercut by the baby's fickle attention is a neat ironic button.