Eastern Europe has a tradition of taking animation as a medium to unexpected places. And this gloriously unsavoury Estonian adventure certainly does so, in a madcap adventure that takes place, partly at least, in a bear’s stomach. The animation style is a crude stop motion, the characters have a single facial expression (wide-eyed, stricken, a bit deranged, in case you were wondering), the plot involves a race against time, for the Old Man and his grandchildren to rescue a prized cow from the murderous Old Milker, and to save the world from a cataclysmic bovine explosion. It’s very silly, very funny and categorically not for younger audiences.
