Agreed. P3R's awakening cutscene has the P3P problem and I think they should have gotten Wit Studio to just animate that cutscene. The Movie version was the inspiration but at the same time it failed at nailing the visceral violence of the entire scene from that movie as well.
For those to whom may be interested there is now a game coming out about a Squirrel with a Gun... I had to look up this sketch as soon as i saw the trailer for the game