This short was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. There will be spoilers ahead: It will take longer to write a review than it took to watch the short, which is less than two minutes. It's difficult to describe this and truly do it justice, but I'll try.This takes ordinary objects (and some not so ordinary) which bear some resemblance to the common ingredients needed to make guacamole-avocado, tomato, onion, chiles and so on and prepare guacamole.The most fascinating part of this for me is how, during the "preparation" of the "ingredients", an object used to represent a whole "ingredient" would change into another wholly different object once it was "cut" or "chopped".All in all, it's a clever, engaging and well crafted short with excellent use of stop motion animation It's well worth seeking out and is definitely recommended.

I understand that "Fresh Guacamole" director PES has directed a number of short films. I had never heard of him until I saw "Fresh Guacamole". This 2-minute short shows noticeable influence from Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, as a pair of hands uses non-food objects to make guacamole. That's literally all that happens in the movie.I don't see many short movies, so I don't know what the criteria are for award nominations. I thought that this one was pretty neat. As it stands, this is so far only the fifth nominee that I've seen in any category. It's worth seeing if you have two free minutes. I'm going to have to check out PES's other movies.

I just recently caught this mind blowing little short (and I do mean short..only 2 minutes)at a festival of Academy Award nominated short animated films. Despite the short running time, I laughed my a** off, big time. It's basically some kind of (very)surreal cooking show,where a pair of hands whips up a batch of Guacamole,using all kinds of household objects not associated with food. The results are pretty wacky (in a good way,of course). Veteran stop motion animator PES (who also did equal justice to cooking up a bowl of pasta in his earlier short, 'Western Spaghetti')weaves a few trippy moments of silliness (and also pulls down a cameo as the pair of hands) that some will get giggles from,others...probably not so (it depends on the grasp of surrealism). Not rated by the MPAA,but nothing to offend the staunchest of bluenoses

PES remains faithful to his style.Like in all his previous work (Particularly "Western Spaghetti") PES is able to give once again a special touch to objects and activities from everyday life.That's the main charm that all the little animations done by PES have: Those shorts are not only pretty well done, but are also able to bring some "magic" to the ordinary stuff, showing that even the most common stuff could be special. It's almost like a lighthearted counterpart of the works of Jan Svankmajer. Is something quite brief but also highly enjoyable.I'm glad that "Fresh Guacamole" received a nomination in the category of best animated short. In all case, it will serve to make the works of PES get the recognition that deserve.