SnoopyStyle The clouds create cute babies and the storks deliver them. Gus is a gray cloud who keeps producing babies that aren't the easiest to deliver. Peck is the stork tasked to deliver them. First, it's a crocodile which almost bites his head off. Next, it's a ram which packs quite a punch. He gets pricked by the porcupine and the shark is simply too much. Peck flies away but he returns with helmet and pads to take on the dangerous babies. Although the protection may not save him from the electric eel. The premise may work for little kids but it's not quite as good for anybody older. It's not as charming as it wants to be although it is a cute idea.

Neil Welch Pixar accompanies its CGI features with short films, and the shorts are usually thematically related in some way to the feature. Thus Up, which tells the story of a man who flies his house through the clouds by tying hundreds of helium balloons to it, is accompanied by Partly Cloudy, which tells what clouds get up to which we can't see. This turns out to be creating cloud babies, cloud puppies, cloud kittens, applying some cloud magic to turn them into living, breathing babies, puppies, kittens, and then turning them over to storks (Storks and clouds are, rather engagingly, partnered up) for delivery.One cloud - rather more dirty than his white, fluffy companions - is tasked with creating the junior versions of the less engaging species, which he does very well. However, these biting, butting, stinging, stabbing creatures mean that his stork partner has the very worst job in the whole stork baby delivery fleet.This wordless story is beautifully designed, brilliantly animated, beautifully communicated, full of slapstick humour and also genuine emotion and, like most of Pixar's shorts, it is very, very funny.A class piece of work. I loved it.

TheLittleSongbird As someone who is consistently impressed with Pixar, I really enjoyed Partly Cloudy. It is not one of Pixar's best, not like Geri's Game, Presto, One Man Band and Knick Knack, but there is much to like and it compliments Up(the feature film that succeeds it). As with all Pixar's work, it is beautifully animated, the clouds may occasionally have a slightly cotton wool look to them, but the characters are well modelled and the colours and backgrounds are gorgeous. The music is understated with a nostalgic feel to it, and while not laugh out loud funny like Presto for instance Partly Cloudy is still entertaining. It also has a very cute and charming story and the characters especially the messenger of the black cloud are endearing. Overall, while not Pixar's best it is definitely worth watching for its cuteness and for how beautiful it looks. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Jackson Booth-Millard I only found out a little while before seeing this that Pixar had been bought by Walt Disney Pictures studios, it does make sense, and Disney can afford it, also owning Miramax. Anyway, this was the short computer animated film shown before the full-length feature of Disney and Pixar's tenth outing with Up. The film opens with storks carrying many baby humans and animals to their designated destinations, after they have been formed by the cuddly looking cloud characters. It focuses on the insecure grey cloud, Gus, who can't quite make the same cute creatures as all the other clouds, meaning that the loyal stork willing taking deliveries from him, Peck, is in for all sorts of trouble. He suffers crocodile bites, ram buts and porcupine pricks. Peck is tempted to go to another cloud after seeing many other nicer creations, which makes Gus thundering mad, and cry with rain, but Peck knows he wouldn't leave his friend, and gets himself protective gear to carry on, and deliver an electric eel. A very well-animated, funny and cute family cartoon short that I can see wining the Oscar for Best Short Animated Film. Very good!