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The day has arrived and a little girl is excited to do her hair using internet tutorials. It does not go well. Her father is horrified and tries desperately to fix it to no avail. He is KO'ed. With a little help, they are able to fix her hair and the true reason for the date's importance is revealed. The boxing is funny. It's a cute little short and then it hits you with an emotional punch. It's great.

A black girl has an unruly afro, and grandiose ideas of the styling she wants - something that probably should be done by a professional. Her mother usually does her hair, but in mother's absence, her father tries his hand at it.

This is a heartwarming story, well done. I recommend it.

This short picture animated film "Hair Love" is fun and touching it has a sentimental feel of fun and happiness. It involves a young girl who wants a new hair style and emotions are high as it's change plus her mom is bald due to cancer treatment. To make matters tougher her dad must fix her hair for the first time! Even twists do happen even though the picture is short. The animation is cool and well done too!

Matthew Cherry's book, "Hair Love" is a very sweet story. So sweet that a Kickstarter campaign was organized to turn the children's book into a short film. Amazingly, they were able to get the services of Sony Pictures....hence the gorgeous animation in the short. How they managed to get such a big, quality production company to make the film, I have no idea...but it's the sort of thing I'd like to see more of in the future.

The story is simple. A black girl has dreams of all sorts of wonderful hair styles for herself...but her hair is a huge and unruly mess. Her father has no idea how to style the hair...and fails miserably. However, he eventually learns from a blog how to make his daughter beautiful. Then, you learn more about the man, the girl and their family...

I loved the story for three main reasons. As I mentioned above, the animation is terrific. The second reason is that the story is so sweet...and it is bound to capture your heart. And finally, there just aren't that many animated films about non-traditional girls...and many people of color have felt left out because of this. A nice film with some nice role models about some formerly marginalized people....and done in a way that isn't heavyhanded in any way. Well worth your time...and available for free on YouTube.

Everything about this project the animation the subject is just a complete work of love that all children of color should see read and pass on to their own children.

I loved this! Such great representation and a great story that, as a friend put it, "It made me feel all the things." I hope there are more films like this in the future.

Hair Love has all the components of a real tearjerking short film, but I really feel like it was just trying too hard for emotion at times. There's so many plot twists that when the short film ends, it still feels like it is still getting started. On the animation side of things, I loved the character design, it reminded me a lot of The Prince of Egypt.

A simple story with a deeper meaning of what people of African origin as well as many other ethinicities have to go through every morning which might just seem like a few seconds prep for some. It encourages people to stop being ashamed of their hairs and instead embrace them. Moreover, the story is about family, hope, love and most of all determination. A sparkling piece of artwork totally Oscarworthy. Another shoutout to the music production team for their efforts to keep this short extra engaging.

An opening 'Pixar' logo wouldn't be out of place in 'Hair Love (2019)', a short by Sony Pictures Animation, as it perfectly captures the heart and spirit typically associated with the widely-accepted-as-number-one studio. It's a touching tale of father and daughter, one that hits its emotional beats just as well as its more surrealist comedic ones. It's both sad and hopeful, a portrait of a family surviving through tough times. It's feel good, for sure. It's also wonderfully diverse and body-positive, focusing quite overly on something most family films actively run away from. It isn't a masterpiece, but it's a great little short that's sure to put a smile on your face. 7/10

I understand that Matthew Cherry's "Hair Love" is intended both as a celebration of African-American hair, and also to counter the image of African-American fathers as deadbeats. All in all, it's a fine piece of work, especially since, when Cherry won an Academy Award for it, he brought to the ceremony an African-American student whose school had insulted his hair.

Watching this short animated movie as a man with long curly hair it brought back memories. It took me years to fully appreciate my natural hair and honestly and that cap or bonnet would've been with me at all times. I enjoyed it, it tries to add too many twists and turns and when you're still adapting the movie is already over. The little girl is very cute and passionated about her hair but most importantly her dear mommy. Sony showing they too can do emotional short videos.

...I loved this little film. It had an unexpected ending, making this look inside a family's struggles and relationships truly hopeful on so many levels.

It's an important day, and a little girl with a monstrously sleep-frazzled Afro tries to get her incompetent father to put it in order.

It's eighty percent making fun of dads, which is still something we can do, right? It's eighty percent that, which is fine by me, until the sad but heartwarming end, which is almost certainly why it is nominated for an Oscar. It's also something that might have been been as a live-action movie, although the nature of the girl's Afro mitigates that. Pretty good cartoon.

Don't want to hate, but isn't this one of the least thought-provoking shorts you've ever seen?

Every girl father knows this challenge. And, after his measure, he solves "the delicate problem". This short animation is not just a solution but a touching portrait of parenthood. A film about family, seductive for children, more moving for adults, absolutely beautiful and imaginative. So, just a great short film, with seductive storytelling and beautiful drawings and music and...cat.

When "Zuri" wakes up in the morning and removes her night cap, her hair - well it's big, very very big! She has faith though that her mum will come and groom it back into stylish and gorgeous shape. Ha! Not today. It's dad who has to sort things out - and he'd rather face Mike Tyson in a boxing ring than try to get to grips with this particular challenge! With her throwing a strop and dad well and truly out of his depth - we have a conundrum! Maybe one of mum's training videos might prove useful? Let's see! I'm not sure hairdressers around the world will appreciate what follows but it is quite a nicely, simply, animated story that raises a smile at the end.

Amazing short film! It was cool to see a dad doing a black girls hair! Usually the mom is doing the hair and in most films the children are white. I loved how it showed natural black girl hair and the difficulties with it. Highly recommend!

Evidently, there's a demand out there for this sort of movie, as it was easily financed through a Kickstarter campaign on its way to being awarded the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film. The business of the father doing his daughter's hair for the first time, along with the judgmental cat, is amusing and cute, and even what I would otherwise consider manipulative sap regarding the sick mother and her resulting baldness figures into the theme of appreciation of one's image.

The picture coincides with increased media attention and new laws banning discrimination against natural, afro-textured hair. Appropriately, then, "Hair Love" concerns overcoming aversion to the protein filaments (at one point, the man imagines he's fighting the girl's tangles in a boxing ring) and appreciating its beauty, which is supported by some nice-looking animation. I also appreciate that the message is dual layered with the short help videos on hair within the 6-minutes movie about the same thing.

Absolutely beautiful story! I loved it from beginning to end!

I enjoyed this animated short film I thought the animation was beautiful it was a very sweet story and I liked the relationship between father and daughter it deserved the Oscar for animated short so I would recommend this short film.

The reviews are as pretentious as this short film ... It just makes no sense how and why this won an Oscar I feel it had to do with the Director more so than the film itself. As a black woman with HAIR and a loving father I don't get the theme at all and let's be honest daughters don't want their fathers doing their hair and fathers don't need to be doing their daughters hair! She could of easily went to a hair salon! I could barely watch to the end 6 minutes was way too long.

Biggest joke of the Oscars was this winning. It has no real story or plot. A father trying to do his daughters mess of hair? Um ok. What a ridiculous theme.