Wasn't amused. Guess balloon humor doesn't do it for me.

Ingenious.

It's like THE BIRDS, but way scarier.

Poor Billy :( This is a short with simplistic animation that's both darkly comic and sad. I enjoyed the 5 minute long one-note joke.

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The 13 balloon gang beat down on the little girl was admittedly a hilarious moment in an otherwise let down of short. I've only seen a handful of Don Hertzfeldt's work but I think he probably could of done better.

Definitely a minor work.

Oh boy this film perfectly expresses the feeling I had after watching Le Ballon rouge. Not very creative or anything. Just some evil fun.

7/8/9 - A very simple, but very funny joke.

Evil balloons murder small children for your amusement.

Very far from impressed; yeah, having evil balloons beat children up might have been a decent concept for a short, but it just gets so damn boring and repetitive in numerous parts. The balloons keep using the same three methods of hurting the kids (choking, hitting them in the head, dropping them from a great height) over and over and over... Meanwhile, there are long, static moments where nothing happens.

This Don Hertzfeldt guy really makes me laugh.

Globophobia: The fear of balloons

Failed really to amuse this viewer.

Bad ballons... oh, too bad!!!

An entry in the Borat school of comedy: The belief that anything, no matter how offensive or unfunny , if dragged out long enough will eventually make people laugh.

Balloons kicking the stuffing out of little kids is only funny for about a minute.

It's funny because balloons don't usually work that way!

Who'd have thought balloons could be so evil?

my favorite of his.

Short film that somehow makes a balloon, an inanimate object evil. Quirky.

A timeless classic. This, this is cinematic perfection.

Hilarious and demented.

One of the more imaginatively macabre of Hertzfeldt's stick-figure pieces of mayhem.

Just a parody of 'The Red Balloon' in one long joke. A very funny joke, I admit, but just one 5-minutes long joke.

More juvenile and mean-spirited animation from Hertzfeldt. I bet he now pumps gas for a living. One of the few motion pictures that actually seems to get worse the more you think about it

This is a great companion piece to Le Ballon Rouge. It's not great but it's entertaining.

concept is original, but didn't like it at all. Haven't seen 'the red balloon' though, so can't determine the parody-value of it. Probably I don't like any of Don Hertzfeldt's works

a typical hertzfeldt, a funny parody & nice to watch

Why ?

Don Hertzfeldt's worst. Pretty dumb.

A far cry from Hertzfeldt's best work, but it still shows growth as an animator and packs a handful of good hard laughs. Be sure to watch "Le Ballon Rouge" before watching this (it too is available via YouTube on Criticker), if you care to know what's being spoofed. It's morbid humour, as usual, but it's very very funny.

Comic timing in animation is difficult but Hertzfeldt does it just as well as the greats (Chuck Jones, Terry Gilliam)

Not as good as other Hertzfeldt shorts, but still funny.

Ridiculous.

This feeds the sadist in me.