It's Such A Beautiful Day

It's Such a Beautiful Day is an experimental black comedy-drama animated film directed, written, animated, and produced by Don Hertzfeldt as his first feature film.

Plot
Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.

Why It's Such A Beautiful Film

 * 1) The movie has excellent use of hand-drawn imagery and uses stick-figures for its character designs.
 * 2) The narrator also contributes a lot to the story. He doesn't state the obvious and isn't annoying at all.
 * 3) It's divided into three chapters, causing it to be very interesting to watch. It's also a collection of Hertzfeldt's other short films.
 * 4) It uses a ton of offbeat humor and dark comedy, with absurdist visions thrown in too. It also has serious philosophical musings too.
 * 5) Sort of great animation that only enhances the visions Bill has. It's also a pretty good homage to animation in the 1910s. Also, it allows the movie to be extremely weird and creative.
 * 6) There are also split-screen windows that show Bill's daily routines and visions.
 * 7) As Bill's visions start getting weirder, with him not understanding stuff, we know we're going to descend into some madness.
 * 8) Good references to films such as The Exorcist.
 * 9) Best of all, this movie's extremely sad, and the soundtrack only makes it sadder.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While the animation is pretty good, it's shown to be a bit shoddy at times.
 * 2) It feels too short since it's exactly an hour long.

Reception
It's Such a Beautiful Day received wide acclaim from film critics. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 100% based on 31 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 8.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "A collection of three shorts by Don Hertzfeldt, It's Such a Beautiful Day is an impossibly dense and affecting piece of animated art." The film holds a score of 90/100 on Metacritic, based on 7 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".