I only really have three things to say about Shorts: (a) there is a
lot going on here, (b) none of it is very good, and (c) the most
engaging character in the movie is a baby.
The things going on in Shorts are mostly gimmicks. The movie is
broken up into chunks that are called both shorts AND
episodes—two gimmicks in one! Sometimes the kid narrator, Toe,
has to pause or rewind the shorts/episodes because he mixes up the
order of events in the story. Best of all, though, are the sound
effects, which do the hard but necessary work of inserting farting
noises into a movie where nobody actually farts.
Gimmicky packaging aside, the plot isn’t great either. One day, a
rainbow craps a wishing rock onto Black Falls, a factory town where an
ominous do-it-all gadget, the Black Box, is manufactured. Toe and his
friends immediately start wishing for stupid shit (a rocket bike!
Infinite candy! A pterodactyl to save me from these alligators!). There
are a couple heartfelt wishes, too, but the rock executes them in such
a goofy way (you want friends? Well, they’re going to come in
spaceships!) that they seem just as stupid as the Booger Monster, a
lumpy, one-eyed booger that was on-screen FOREVER.
The film gets even more bogged down by a totally unpunchy script and
moral lessons that don’t quite jell (don’t use technology—it will
ruin your marriage and make your phone also work as a toaster!). Shorts is too unfocused to teach kids anything beyond the fact that it would
be gross if boogers were alive and person-sized.
That baby sure is hilarious, though. 
The phrase is “don’t quite gel.”
Your first clue would have been the wavy red line under “jell.”
@ #1: FAIL:
* Main Entry: jell
* Pronunciation: ˈjel
* Function: verb
* Etymology: back-formation from jelly
* Date: 1869
intransitive verb 1 : to come to the consistency of jelly : congeal, set
2 : to take shape and achieve distinctness : become cohesive
transitive verb : to cause to jell
From Merriam-Webster.
Don’t worry, you still win at being an ass-hat!
@ #1: FAIL:
* Main Entry: jell
* Pronunciation: ˈjel
* Function: verb
* Etymology: back-formation from jelly
* Date: 1869
intransitive verb 1 : to come to the consistency of jelly : congeal, set
2 : to take shape and achieve distinctness : become cohesive
transitive verb : to cause to jell
From Merriam-Webster.
Don’t worry, you still win at being an ass-hat!
As someone with a family history of English degrees, I’m pretty surprised to see “jell” in a dictionary. Common usage trends support this: compare 91,900,000 Google hits for “gel” vs. 4,090,000 for “jell”, a substantial portion of which are from “jell-o”. I’m all for inventing, verbing and repurposing words, but also pretty firm that exiting perfectly good words should not be supplanted by inventions.
they look like Animal Collective mini-me’s
wow, mae, i’m sorry that people use your comment section for nonsense and self-aggrandizement. i enjoyed the review nonetheless!