'Junk' (2011) Award-winning animation HD 

Any one else crack up when he screamed after eating lettuce

when he found the old tire, i thought, " Oh, he's gonna realize that this old piece of junk isn't really junk and can be used again and straighten up his life, moral of the story, YAY!" nope, he's gonna eat it.

the screams were the funniest thing

'Junk' is a statement about modern waste. Jasper O'Leary is a consumer - both literally, by the way that he eats everything, and symbolically by the way that he uses things quickly and leaves a significant amount of waste. The setting of this short consistently very industrial, with waste filling everything in sight. This is a statement on the little care given to the waste we, as a society, produce. Ironically, the waste we consume now will ultimately consume us, the places we live, and everything around us. Jasper's knack of eating everything in sight ties unhealthy eating thematically to consumerism; while unhealthy eating destroys our bodies, unhealthy consuming destroys our surroundings. This is further implied by Jasper's comparison of a used tire to his donut, a very clever juxtaposition of the two ideas. The most specific example of a shortfall of society's consumerism is represented rather directly through Jasper eating tire rubber dipped in tar, both of which are petroleum products. In today's society, very little care is given to the resources we use and pollution we leave behind, just like very little care is given to what we eat. The ending sees a version of the moral 'You are what you eat' within the context of 'You exist within what you throw away.' This also predicts that our rampant consumption of waste will be our undoing. Overall a very clever, well designed, and beautifully animated allegory.

This was an interesting take on consumerism. It's a twisted and at times confusing way to demonstrate it, but once given thought, the messages are quite clear, though it takes a sharp eye to notice the smaller references and clever similarities.

It's about time Tim Burton, Roald Dahl, and Dr.Seuss got together and wrote something about Pica. I've been waiting for this for years.

Barry Clayton's narrating skills are divine!

I love how even the narrator sounds confused

How imaginative! Dr. Seuss meets Tim Burton. Very good! Although I was sad at Jasper O'Leary's death, I understand that the story couldn't go without end. 😉😀

This is when wandering around in that weird part of RU-vid really pays off, i loved it!

A big, big thanks to our lead animator on this film - Michael Burges. Fantastic work, Mike x

Alright, now to the comments, hoping they explain everything...

the way the narrator say "bizarre" cracked me up

I feel like this is really good animation which happened to be paired up with a weird story

this is my home school routine my teacher send me.

A timeless classic.Makes me hungry for junk food !!!

Me sitting here watching this thinking "very interesting... good point" meanwhile my fat as is eating a plate of fries for lunch.

That was a perfect representation of what happens when I try to eat a salad 😂

This creeped me out a few years ago so I rewatched it to see if I was as creepy as it was then!

Now that was weird. But weirdly amazing.

Love this...hadnt watched it in a while, now re-sharing all over again :)

He's like AHHHHHHHHHH when he eats normal food

my name just so happens to be dylan who knew

aww, I was hoping he would've saved the town by drinking all the oil after an oil spill!

There was a Steam Punk feel to this film, with the Cthulhu steamer event adding a certain benefit.

Richard Paul Astley (born 6 February 1966) is an English singer, songwriter and radio personality, who has been active in music for several decades. He gained worldwide fame in the 1980s, having multiple hits including his signature song "Never Gonna Give You Up", "Together Forever" and "Whenever You Need Somebody", and returned to music full-time in the 2000s. Outside his music career, Astley has occasionally worked as a radio DJ and a podcaster. Born and raised in Lancashire, Astley became a musician after leaving school, as the drummer for the soul band FBI. Three years later, he rose to fame through his association with the production trio Stock Aitken Waterman; releasing the 1987 album Whenever You Need Somebody, which sold 15.2 million copies worldwide. His debut single "Never Gonna Give You Up" was a number 1 hit single in 25 countries, winning the 1988 Brit Award for Best British Single.[1][2] His 1988 single "Together Forever" became his second single to top the US Billboard Hot 100, and was one of his eight songs to reach the top ten on the UK Singles Chart. The title track was a No 1 single in seven countries, and it reached No 3 in the UK. In 1988, Astley followed-up his debut album with Hold Me In Your Arms. The lead single "She Wants to Dance with Me" was Astley's first single that he wrote himself, and became a worldwide top 10 hit. In 1991, Astley left Stoke Aitken Waterman and moved his musical direction away from dance-pop and towards soul, which he explored on his albums Free (1991) and Body and Soul (1993). His 1991 single "Cry for Help" was Astley's last single to reach the top 10 in either the US or UK. From 1994 to 2000, Astley retired from music to focus on spending time with his wife and raising their daughter. He returned to the music industry in 2000, and released the single "Sleeping" and the album Keep It Turned On in 2001. Four years later, Astley released his covers album Portrait. Astley became an Internet phenomenon in 2007 when the music video for his song "Never Gonna Give You Up" became integral to the Rickrolling meme,[3] and his performance career was revitalised by the meme's popularity. In 2010, Astley released the single "Lights Out" after touring with Peter Kay. Six years later, he released his album 50 to celebrate his 50th birthday, which debuted in the UK at No. 1.[4] He released his most recent studio album Beautiful Life in 2018, and released his greatest hits album The Best of Me in 2019. His most recent albums were recorded at his home studio in Surrey.[5] By the time of his brief retirement, Astley had sold approximately 40 million records worldwide.[6][7][8] A year after the Rickrolling meme began, Astley was voted "Best Act Ever" by Internet users at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2008.[9] His song "Never Gonna Give You Up" reached 1 billion views in July 2021, becoming the fourth 1980s song to reach this milestone (behind "Billie Jean" by Michael Jackson, "Take On Me" by A-ha and "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses).[10] Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 1985-1986: Signing with Stock Aitken Waterman 2.2 1987-1989: Success 2.3 1990-1993: Switch to soul and adult contemporary and career break 2.4 1994-2000: Retirement 2.5 2000-present: Return to singing and renewed success 3 Rickrolling internet phenomenon 4 Personal life 5 Discography 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Early life Astley was born on 6 February 1966 in Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire, the fourth child of his family. His parents divorced when he was five and Astley was brought up by his father.[11] Astley remained in very close contact with his mother, who lived a few streets away from his father. After finding out that his father was the one who kicked his mother out of the house, Astley distanced himself from his father.[12] When he was 10 years old, Astley began singing in a local church choir, which began his love of music.[13] During his schooldays, Astley formed and played the drums in a number of local bands, where he met guitarist David Morris.[2][14] After leaving school at sixteen, Astley was employed during the day as a driver in his father's market-gardening business and played drums on the Northern club circuit at night in bands such as Give Way - specialising in covering Beatles and Shadows songs - and FBI, which won several local talent competitions.[13] Career 1985-1986: Signing with Stock Aitken Waterman In 1985, Astley was performing as a drummer with a soul band named FBI, with Morris on guitar. They were a well-known local band writing and performing their own music, gigging in pubs and clubs. When FBI's lead singer left the band, and Morris left to concentrate on his career in hairdressing,[14] Astley offered to be the lead vocalist. This was when he was noticed by the record producer Pete Waterman, who persuaded him to come to London to work at the Pete Waterman Limited (PWL) recording studio,[2] with RCA Records publishing his records. Under the tutelage of the production team of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman, known as Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW), Astley was taught about the recording process and groomed for his future career, supposedly starting off as the recording studio "tea boy". The reason for Astley to be hired as a "tape op" was to overcome his shyness.[15] SAW also hired most of FBI, including Morris as a guitarist/songwriter.[14] 1987-1989: Success His first single was "When You Gonna", released as a collaboration with Lisa Carter. The song was released in May 1987, and with no promotion managed to chart at No. 17 in the Netherlands[16] and No. 20 in Belgium.[17] Astley's first solo offering was "Never Gonna Give You Up", recorded on New Year's Day 1987, and released eight months later, in August.[18] Astley's distinctive rich, deep voice combined with dance-pop made the song an immediate success,[19] spending five weeks at the top of the British charts and becoming the year's highest-selling single. The song was also a worldwide number-one hit, topping the charts in 24 other countries, including the US, Australia, and West Germany. It was the first of 13 (worldwide) top 30 hit singles for him. "Never Gonna Give You Up" won Best British Single at the 1988 BPI awards (now called the BRIT Awards),[20] and he performed it in front of a global audience of 100 million.[2][21]

That was beautiful 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 I'm going to watch it again and have a nice hot bowl of motor oil soup.

i love this animated short film...

Its hard to focus on the movie when all you can hear is the next word he's about to use for the rhyme.

this is just beautiful the graphics of dark silhouette adds to the meaningful concept ^^

Wow! That was so cinematic. Really good work!

My nine year old grandson's bedtime story for sure. Thanks.

At 1:40 it started to sound like a Tim Burton film.. great work, loved it!

the animated water looks so real what!?!

Oh my god, is the narrator the same guy who did the narration for treasure planet, u know when jim is reading the book and it's all like "on the clearest of nights" is this the same guy cause it really sounds like him

I thought he was going to see the correlation between junk and the name "junk food". But he ate the fucking tire.

This story is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen but the animation tho 👽

I scream too when I have to just eat lettuce and that's it. IT BURNSSS.

Phenomenal work!!! 👍👍

This reminds me of hungry mungry by Shel Silverstein

Lettuce pray *screams*

very beautifully designed it

This is so weird. Why do I keep watching it? ;-;

and it all started with a musical box and betrayal

We have to write about this animation in school.. i was watching it and thinking "oh yeah so what he loves junk food" but then it took a really twisted turn and he started eating tires and when he tried salad his mouth burned... this gives me Edward scissor hands vibes and i have no idea why its just gets a little creepy lol

I think the moral is that eating Junk Food is as bad as eating Junk......Trash??? LOLZ!!!

He learned to operate all of that JUST to eat it.....

This was beautifully done 👍

It's ironic how we're all weirded out by the boy yet we're all watching this on our phones ..

The animation, colouring and music a beautifully done, but what on earth was that story?

so beautiful

this guy ate barbed wire, tar, car tires, rocks, and he survived???

How wonderful! Beautiful animation, truly enchanting music, a great poem narrated by a captivating wizardry (I can find no better word) voice... It feels like a magical yet slightly scary bedtime story for children - a dark Victorian fairytale, as machines and exponential change take over a London that is trying to maintain at least some of its magic, some of the stillness of pre-industrial times, but ultimately succumbs to modernity. At least that is how I for my part experienced this animated short, and I am grateful for that experience. Truly wonderful! Well done indeed.

A special blend of Myst meets Syberia, 'Junk' offers up a tasty knuckle sandwich for us all, well seasoned by creativity, artwork, and prose, nicely garnished thru music, riveting storyline, and just plain fun -- a relevant message with iron plating, to be sure, all in a good way.

Fantastic animation. Loved the ending.

Absolutely marvelous.

Haha laughed when he died omg xD

I still enjoy this short animation

Amazing short film.

The story was pretty off the charts in weirdness, but it actually was a good blend of drawing style and narration-style story-telling, with the backdrop of music lightening it somewhat. I didn't expect to come away liking it, but I did. in spite of the bizarre tale. Nice job on the animation.

Though i couldn't understand the story still i found this video amazing just coz of the animation

best online animation ever

3:18 4:34 Wow....is it wrong that every time something terrible happened, I laughed?

I watched this a long time ago and forgot what it was called, I finally found it again!!!!

Interesting story and very well done.

I hate how few views this movie got! It s one of the beste short films I've ever seen.

NICE---I liked the contrast between the two-dimensional/shadow-puppet character, and the pseudo-three-dimensional settings. The music reminded me of Tim Burton movies, the rhyming narration reminded me (alot!) of Edward Gorey's books.

every time i ear he scream i laugh next to death

Fantastic (!) narration by Barry Clayton (Rip)

I have to do this for my english writing people please help its hard here are the questions Introduce who Jasper O’Leary is. Retell what he liked to eat. Describe what he saw and then what he did - Collier Engine Ring (junk yard), eating car tyres in red hot tar. Reputation for junk food· Doctor concerned for his health…why? Tried salad but……. burnt his mouth He stuck with the junk· Made a new goal to swallow an oil tank as cargo hold (massive ship) whole. Jumped into the ocean. Died. Funeral - no cemetery· Outskirts of town to a place just for him…· It’s the junk yard where he was buried. Why?

gut instinct? so its not impossible to live on jacks "diet"

Watched this in class, bad had to write it myself

Everyone keeps saying that this is about "being yourself" except that if he wasn't "true to himself" he wouldn't have died trying to eat an oil tanker.

I get the allegory, but who would burry him in a junkyard simply for ironies sake?

Love the animation. Some of it is 3D, some 2D, and the score is amazing.

It was sad when he died but when he screamed I cracked up,I was surprised he would actually eat a car tire and think it was a doughnut

We need a feature length film based on this

Edward scissor hands meets Charlie in the choc factoru

Guys this might be a bit of a stretch but I think I had a bit too much junk food

Awesome! Amasing! Very good :)

fantastic

if kids under 15 r watching this,they never gonna eat junk food again

Quirky goodness. Love the moody weather.

this seems to have some sort of ending morale lesson... but i appear to have missed it. did someone get the message?

We don't grow no trees 'round here no more. And we has t'get air from a jug.

i will never eat junkfood because its a tire

I laughed the whole time especially when he died lmfao!

Wow...This has suddenly inspired me to get serious about healthy eating

Ooookay. Gorgeous animation, I must say. But... What?

My class cracked up when he tried to eat the boat

Did any one else get a link in school and this came up?

Strangely, I am on the back porch, drinking a weekend drink, staring out at the concrete porch and metal railing, imagining what a pleasure it would be to be some monstrosity of a hulk that eats concrete and metal ..it sounds so lovely and natural, and enticing. I wish I was a monster of such kinds!

Over 7 years🎉

Dude pulls up: I WANNA EAT UR BOAT

We watched this in school and it made me creeped out

*If only we can make "car tyres dipped in piping hot tar" and "Jackhammer Soup with a barbed wire garnish" a bit more EDIBLE, then we can definitely bring an ode to dear Jasper O'Leary.*

" to swallow an oil tanker's cargo whole" me: this cannot end well,also how is he not dead from the time he started,maybe he's just a guy with a super stomach.

3:21 when it’s Sunday evening and you realise you have homework to complete by the next day

the aspect of gluttony.

amazing