The Rabbit Always Wins

Pixar’s short Presto plays before Wall-E and earns its place there completely. A magician. His rabbit. A hat. The rabbit is hungry, the magician is oblivious, and what follows is about four minutes of escalating slapstick with the geometric precision of a Swiss watch and the anarchic spirit of classic Looney Tunes. No dialogue needed. Just physics, timing, and a bunny with absolutely zero respect for the hand that feeds it—or rather, refuses to.

It reminded me why Pixar shorts exist at all: not as filler or brand exercise but as a reminder that animation is a formal art, that movement and rhythm and the exact frame in which something happens are where the craft actually lives. Presto is a small masterclass in that. Also the rabbit is hilarious. Both things are true.