The Worst Film Ever

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Stick figures and mayhem; it's not exactly what I'd expect a memorable short film to evolve from, but there it is. And it is spectacular. What I really love about "Rejected" is its boundless creativity. Within these vignettes of genial decapitations, bleeding anuses and oversized spoons is a blistering comment on consumerism trumping art. And it's not a dominant message, but one that fits perfectly within the narrative of an artist slowing losing his grip. And that's exactly why this is so funny: it's pure madness festering to the point of anarchy.This was my introduction to Don Hertzfeldt ("Mah spoon is too big!" is all over the Internet) and seeing the whole movie was like opening a package on Christmas morning. Its wit straddles the line between sophomoric and razor=sharp like a pro, and it is truly a lot of fun!10/10

An Oscar nominated, cult short by Don Hertzfeldt that showcases several mini-shorts related to product promotion and children teaching segments. They are linked by a fictional frame that says that these works were presented and rejected and that the author grew increasingly crazy, the next short becoming even crazier. It is just a summary you see repeated in too many film sites taken literally. Hertzfeldt has never accepted any commercial assignment.The animation style is very simple and schematic, with simple lines, blank and white, bare or very simple backgrounds, with some splashes of bright colour. The mood of all the vignettes is very childish, funny and increasingly gory, with that sort of brutishness that some small children show when mistreating little animals without knowing that what they are doing is wrong or harmful.The humour goes from deadpan, to absurd to plain hilarious, and it is very entertaining. "My anus is bleeding" and "funny hats only" are my favourite segments.Something different and refreshing. Anarchist in the best sense of the word. Not for children!

This film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2001--losing to the extremely sentimental (think 'boring') FATHER AND DAUGHTER. While I personally preferred the extremely dark THE PERIWIG-MAKER, REJECTED was my second favorite of the nominated films.I have learned that although I liked REJECTED, it has a major cult following and it's thought of as a work of genius. While I certainly wouldn't go that far and am not ready to become a card-carrying Hertzfeldt cult member, I certainly enjoyed the film--that is once the film got going. In the beginning, a bunch of supposedly rejected promotional films for the Family Network were shown and I wasn't all that impressed. They were bad but nothing memorable. However, I am glad I resisted my urge to stop watching the film. The next batch of supposedly rejected films were much, much sicker--in other words, they were so disgusting and violent that they had me laughing out loud. And I am not talking about a little laugh, but a huge one. Because the characters were little more than stick figures, the utterly bloody and gross promos really hit home. Later, the film changes and becomes much more disorganized and crazy--supposedly mirroring the author's disintegrating mental state! The film, though awfully simple artistically, was a hoot--funny and original. I liked it so much, I made my daughter watch it. Give it a look.By the way, I can probably safely assume that the phrase "my anus is bleeding" probably occurred in no Oscar nominated film before or since!

I seriously cannot understand how anyone on this planet can find this funny! It is scandalous, disgusting, does not make any sense at all and is highly unwatchable. It was even hard for me to watch it, and right now I'm shocked what a waste of time it actually was. Why do you guys find it funny? What makes you laugh about ugly, poorly animated cartoons with annoying 'characters', with their even more annoying voices, the incredibly primitive, meaningless 'plot'? How can a mentally healthy man find all this funny, and how can anyone give it 10 out of 10? I give 1 out of 10, but just because there is no option of minuses or at least zero.