Review: Tied Up is a trashy tale that I didn't treasure
You know how Pixar are kind of the kings of personifying various objects, animals, and concepts, and making us fall in love with them? In their movies, we've experienced the inner lives of toys, bugs, fish, monsters, and even emotions. But, they've never gone to the extreme of making us care about trash. Well, unless you count Sid's toys in the original Toy Story , maybe. But that's the gist of Tied Up , a Russian animated feature that recently got a digital release here in the states. The title refers to the main character, Mak, a designed necktie who, in a show of bravado by his owner, is tossed from the car window. He lands in an alley full of garbage of various shapes and sizes, but he is quick to tell them he doesn't belong there. They're all busted, broken, used-up, and otherwise worthy of the dumpster. But Mac, he's expensive, silk, not like them. He needs to get home. The rest of the trash dreams of reaching Paradise, a mythical place where garbage i...
