My score is largely personal (like all review scores to some extent, I guess) because the short reminds me of the things I saw on Japanese television. Nostalgia might be artificially inflating my grading.

This is a surreal short apparently made, in part, by children. A strange, infectious song plays throughout the main character's quest: go to either the barber or the dentist. The film is largely plot less. The characters are bizarre but benign, cutesy animals and personified half moons and a barbershop trio(although they might be butchers).

Watch it if you have a few minutes. Have you ever accidentally tuned to PBS or a kids TV station and been engrossed by the colors and sounds and general nonsense? You'll enjoy this if you have.

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Koji Yamamura is often praised for capturing a childlike sense of wonder in his animated films. YOUR CHOICE! actually benefits from the input of a handful of "junior director" collaborators in Japan and Chicago. The theme is indecisiveness but hand the reigns over to kids and a T-Rex is sure to show up sooner or later. Yamamura's delight in their errant narration is evident in his fresh sensitivity to the comedy of everyday life. You'll surely think of YOUR CHOICE! the next time you catch yourself deliberating whether to pack an umbrella.

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