Partly Cloudy

Partly Cloudy (2009) is a Pixar animated short you can watch online on iFILM. In just five minutes, director Peter Sohn answers a strange question: if storks deliver babies, who makes them? Up in the clouds, of course. The fluffy white ones sculpt kittens and puppies.

Then there is Gus, a gloomy grey cloud who builds the dangerous deliveries — crocodiles, porcupines, rams, electric eels. His loyal stork Peck hauls every spiky, biting bundle, and the work keeps getting rougher on his battered little body. At heart it is a story about a friendship that survives the bumps and bites. The short ran in theaters ahead of Up and remains one of Pixar's most tender pieces, told without a single line of dialogue. Stream Partly Cloudy (2009) online on iFILM.