Parents' Choice Awards : DVDs : Home Video
AxTelevision: Come Outta That Shell
Spring 2005 Home VideoReview:
Attention, budding Steven Spielbergs, this video is for you. Come Outta That Shell is a film about making a film. Creature designer Steve Axtell and his crew build amazing puppets, make sets, write music, and use computers to create special effects for a real movie about two friends.
Not only is the video inspiring -- you'll want to sit and create your own drawings and puppets as you watch them do their fascinating work, but the story acted out by the puppets is one of friendship and courage. One friend runs away and the other friend is scared to try to find him in a forest. The making of the movie is a journey in creativity; the movie itself is amusing enjoyment.
Ann Oldenburg ©2005 Parents' Choice
Ann Oldenburg, a blogger and reporter for USA Today, has covered entertainment from the Washington, D.C. area for more than 20 years. She is a University of Florida Gator with a degree in journalism, and she began her career at The Washington Post. Throughout the years, she has written for TV Guide, Parents magazine and other publications. She is the co-author of a travel guide book titled The Dog Lover's Companion to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, with her husband, Don Oldenburg, a former Washington Post writer. She and Don live in McLean, Va., with their three sons and their two dogs.
