what a garbage movie and waste of Data.... it's a double psychologically demonic movie meant for depressed people... two unrelated poor puppet animation combined... don't even waste your time

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seriously!!! this is actually waste of Data.. three stories that has no relationship, it's annoying, irritating etc.... don't watch this shît if you are a nightmare person

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I dispute the classification of this film by IMDB as a "dark comedy". That appellation would lead me to expect something lighter in tone - maybe akin to "South Park", which CAN be both funny and dark. What I got was more like an animated horror story - SAW done with puppets. Woe betide the parent who decides that a stop-motion animation film might be suitable for their children to watch. That may be true in general, but "The House" sure isn't a candidate!

This is a film with three unique stories that have one thing in common; the house. The first story was strange yet very engaging and I loved the style of the puppet people. Story #2 with the mice was awful and story #3 with the cats was not any better. If the script was better this would have been outstanding. Or just lengthen the first story as the entire film. Hard to describe the hyper vague plots of these but the stop motion animation was a great charge from the usual. The first story presented the most meat to chew on, while the others appeared to be were really disconnected within themselves, between their own scenes, from making any sense. Who knows, this may click better for you.

While it may seem that the three stories are disconnected, they all allude to the human condition. The first story is about the pursuit of material wealth which humans associate with happiness. However, the obsession with material wealth consumes them and paradoxically drives them further away from the contentment that they desire. If one is constantly looking for more, nothing is ever enough. The second story is a metaphor for the plague that humankind is on the planet. The house is planet Earth, the only home we have; the bugs are what we humans deem as pests, which have every claim to this planet as we do; and the rats are us. The bank is climate change and the call to action to correct our parasitic behaviour before we burn our house down. The final story is an indictment of the property market which goes against the basic human right to a home by discriminating against those who fail to play by society's arbitrary rules. The House holds a mirror up to us and beckons us to take a good hard look. Those in denial will reject these messages, so it is "preaching to the converted". Watching this is still one hell of a ride and the stop motion animation is a joy to behold.

Let me start by saying my rating in no way reflects the voice acting which was good. That being said I found everything else horrible. What this is essentially is 3 parables that they try to thinly connect by saying it's the same house in each parable which is razor thin cuz the house does not appear to be even remotely similar in any of the 3 stories except for a few things they throw in to try to make the connection from 1st to 2nd and 2nd to 3rd, but if you were to just look 1st to 3rd there is zero connection to say that is the same house. The moral of each parable is as old as time, absolutely nothing new here. There is no pleasure to be derived from the stories themselves, unless you find dancing cockroaches in stop motion animation funny. Now if you're a glutton for punishment or if you like stories where the protagonist struggles and suffers until they give up then maybe you'll enjoy this. To me instead of dark comedy adult animation as it's listed it would better be called children's horror. On top of all that I found their version of stop motion animation to be off putting the whole time and very unenjoyable to watch. All in all I thought it was an awful waste of time and by the time I was halfway through the 2nd I was hoping that there would be a bright spot to this just so it wasn't a complete waste of time, a few minutes into the third I was just wishing it would end. So watch at your own risk, but if you've read all this then at least you know what you're getting yourself into.