Aaron and His Dad Try to Find Closure & Lucy Celebrates Andie's Birthday at Universal Citywalk Hollywood
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Brad Roelandt
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, humorous, theatrical
Two unrelated events — a friend's surprise birthday party and a father-son ash-scattering mission — collide in one continuous bird's-eye take at Universal CityWalk. Balloons fly, cake hits the pavement, and Minion Mayhem becomes a memorial.
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The scouts
A logistical magic trick disguised as a sketch — most filmmakers wouldn't dare stage grief next to a Minion ride. Roelandt does, and that's exactly why I'm in.
A single bird's-eye take staging two converging narratives at a working theme park — Roelandt swings for Russian Ark-meets-Tim-Robinson and the logistics alone command attention. Ambitious in the best dumb way.
Single unbroken bird's-eye take staging two converging narratives at a working theme park concourse — that's a logistical and conceptual swing of real ambition. Minion Mayhem as memorial is exactly the right kind of absurd.
Reviews
wears its title literally and hilariously in a roaming, single-take sequence