Presto (film)

Presto is a 2008 American Pixar computeranimated short film shown in theaters before their featurelength film WALLE. The short is about a magician trying to perform a show with his uncooperative rabbit and is a gagfilled homage to classic cartoons such as Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes. Presto was directed by veteran Pixar animator Doug Sweetland, in his directorial debut.

Vaudevilleera magician Presto DiGiotagionea is famous for a hat trick wherein he pulls his rabbit Alec Azamb out of his top hat. An unfed and irritated Alec is locked in a cage, unable to reach his carrot. After Presto returns from eating a meal, he begins practicing his act with Alec, revealing that his top hat is magically connected to a wizards hat kept backstage with Alec, so that when Presto reaches into the top hat, his hand appears out of the wizards hat, allowing him to grab Alec and pull him out of the top hat. He intends to feed Alec the carrot, but realizes that he is late for the show and rushes off to the stage without doing so, much to Alecs anger. Presto tries to start the performance, but Alec becomes reluctant to cooperate until he is given the carrot. Presto then spends the rest of the show trying to catch Alec through the opening between his top hat and the wizards hat.Alec cleverly turns the hats magic against his master into multiple humiliating ways, each of which elicits increasing applause from the audience, which believes these shenanigans are part of Prestos act. Prestos finger is stuck in a mouse trap, and he is hit in the face by an egg, caused by a backfired attempt to aggravate Alec. Presto responds by antagonizing Alec, turning the carrot into a flower. Unimpressed, Alec sucks Prestos head into a ventilation pipe offstage, which spikes Prestos hair and turns his face red. When Presto lunges at Alec through the hats, Alec directs Prestos hand into the podiums drawer and closes the drawer, painfully restraining the hand while he looks through Prestos sleeve for the carrot. Presto runs toward Alec, but instead is poked in the eye by his own hand. Presto drops his hat, and when he grabs the wizard hat, he accidentally rips off his own slacks, which leaves him in his underwear, much to Alecs amusement. Furious, Presto tries to attack Alec, but in an act to defend himself, Alec puts an offstage ladder into the wizard hat, and Presto is h

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