The Creation of the World

The Creation of the World features a cleverly written script, simple yet distinctive drawing, equally simple but effective animation, and, most notably, charming commentary by Jan Werich. It's a poetic and playful piece that falls short of five stars due to its slower pace and lack of sharper, "Simpsons-like" humor. However, the old-fashioned approach is logical given the film's age, and at the time, it was quite avant-garde. Overall impression: 85%. (08/07/2007)

This animation is still so pleasantly naive and beautiful, it's also quite entertaining, only the songs don't sound as innocent as they were when I watched the film as a child. Jan Werich shows how great of a storyteller he was and how excellently he could play only with his voice. This is a tremendous gift. It's still an above-average animated film about how the world could have been created - maybe we wouldn't believe it even as children, but as a fairy tale, it's fine. (10/31/2014)

If I’d been born into a deeply religious family, I would have surely been thrilled. But since I avoid religion as much as possible, believe in God about as much as I believe in the existence of Santa Claus and, last but not least, I am not a fan of Czech animated films of the 1950s, I was already doomed to dislike this light and musical biblical tale, which, after all, was exactly what happened. Nice execution, score and voice over by Jan Werich. Nothing more, nothing less... (07/30/2012)

If it wasn’t for the constant and impossible to ignore references to the abominable communist ideology, I would give it a higher rating. 5/10 (10/22/2009)