Reviews for 2 Guys & a Jigsaw Puzzle

[Ericho]

I get it

Okay, okay, I have to admit that you were pretty funny with how subtle you were being on everything. The best part is the animation. I swear that the guy on the left looks like some giant egg. The animation is easily the best part of this, especially with how you manuever the movements. It was fun to catch what was on the puzzle pieces. Now, for a more serious analysis, I think I disagree with what you're saying.

I think that what most people use as a defense for this is how religion caused the Middle Ages with little scienfitic advancement. This is completely untrue. If you question most modern historians, they'll agree that this has been discredited. Religion helped us through that thousand years more than anything. So yeah, it's hard to really love this, but it's still well done.

[Snazzymation]

...Good animation tech, but a few things....

7 for animation.

Here is the thing, You can't go about something the way you just did, without knowing what it is your talking about. For example, if I want to bash evolutionist or atheistic worldivews, then I can only do so with validity if I have studied and come to understand what those things are.

The funny thing about this is this.. Those peices were already there? Where did they come from? Christianity says that they were there. Scientific theory says, lets make a piece based off of other pieces that will make sence, based on other pieces and theories of other pieces.

Fluid animation and sound though.

TmsT responds:

It seems you are mistaken. There actually is, within this movie, a pile of jigsaw pieces that appear when humans make new discoveries or realisations. Jigsaw-piece shaped clouds float around in the sky above it, and two improbably-shaped men try to work out where the billions of pieces will fit. But even in the face of these glaringly inexplicable aspects of the story, you are right to question the origin of the jigsaw pieces. Indeed, they aren't "already there", because human knowledge is theoretically boundless and an infinite number of jigsaw pieces all being there at the same time regardless of whether the knowledge has been discovered - or could ever be discovered before humanity's inevitable extinction - or not would cause severe physical problems. It is implied during the dialogue regarding the as-yet-undiscovered Theory of Everything that these pieces are only there when the pieces of knowledge that they represent have been discovered by people like you and I. Scientific theories and methods might aid in their discovery, as might analogies, as might experience and insight, but such methods of gaining knowledge are of no concern to the two guys charged with solving the very physical jigsaw puzzle that results from the knowledge gained, just as a librarian is not expected to have authored or even read every book that he or she catalogues. The mechanism for these pieces appearing is neither revealed or relevant in the context of the story, but I cannot blame you for wondering about it and turning to relevant biblical texts for an explanation.
If Christianity "says" that the jigsaw pieces were, contrary to the constraints of physics, "already there", this is of no concern to me as the author, since the world depicted by this animated movie is simply about a jigsaw puzzle, and no prior knowledge of biblical texts explaining the origins of jigsaw puzzle pieces is required. Every day, thousands of people partake in jigsaw puzzle-solving activities without having studied the origins of jigsaw pieces as according to Christian beliefs, so even had I known about this, I would still not feel it necessary to confuse the issue by including references to that text. Simply set aside these concerns for now, and the story will become clear.

I submit that you would do well to understand what it is you are watching before you commit to writing a detailed analysis of what you may over-interpret it to be or into which you may be projecting too much of your personal experiences. But I certainly agree with your stance on thorough research of subjects for bashing, in order to go about doing the things that we would otherwise be unable to do.

[Psychopath]

No hidden connotation huh?

I guess that would be true considering how you basically threw a cross in my face, but not so considering how it's "Two guys and a jigsaw puzzle and nothing more", to say that there's no greater connotation would be an insult to my intelligence as there obviously is; it's a commentary on the ignorance of religion "budding in where it doesn't belong", i.e. forcing a piece in the shape of a cross into the center of the jigsaw puzzle intended for the ultimate theory, saying that religion has no place being brought into a society dominated by science, furthermore no place in science itself. It goes a little far by saying it somehow ruins science simply by being present, but whatever, the vocal majority of atheists these days are turning out to be just as unreasonable as any given Dogma, gotta love how you made the theist into a dim witted douche bag. It's basic anti-religion propaganda.

[Kardrack]

A somewhat fun video.

Not a bad peice but not really to my taste. Animation was nice and fluid. Good sound and fun drawing style. Didn't quite care for the political meaning behind this in the "religion doesn't fit in our lives" but hey, that is your opinion and you are welcome to it. Just going to point out that christiantiy, since that is the symbolism you were using, actually doesn't opposing things like evolution and thermodynamics. Instead, just idiots do that in the name of religion. Anyways, a fun video but I could have done without political commentary. Otherwise, fun video of a guy trying to shove a t shaped piece in a puzzle which some people might assume means something religious. After all, it is just two guys working on a puzzle and nothing else apparantly. Not giving a 10 here because nothing is ever perfect and there is always room for improvement.

[ZaCKOWAKS74]

ughh

now I'm not saying that that isn't clever, its actually quite funny but at the same time your misrepresenting most of people who follow the christian religion, and to be honest I'm not sure if i should be laughing or be offended.