This was nominated for Best Animated Short this year but lost to Dear Basketball. It's a Pixar short so it was packaged with Cars 3, which was not nominated for Best Animated Feature so I still haven't watched it.A monster lives in the box of Lost and Found at an elementary school. He goes around after recess and collects the left behind or the out of reach and stores it safely in his box until the kids come back out to be reunited. He is opposed by the class bully who just takes stuff and doesn't give it back. After a confrontation, Lou reveals the thing the bully lost and uses it to strike a deal. The bully will return all the kids' lost property before he receives his own back.
This packs a lot of empathy into a seven-minute wordless short. That's really the genius of Pixar. It's become like a shorthand. "You just got Pixar-ed" is not a phrase but it really should be. For those times when you're suckered by The Feels into believing that the world is not just a huge garbage fire that will inevitably consume everyone and everything into nothingness. I hope you get Pixar-ed today.
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