This director loves to anthropomorphize animals in his works. The menagerie of animals that parade through the scenery attest to this.
Pros: Better animation than most of his other works, his taste for music is superb.
Cons: Not the best animation and hardly and characters let alone development of them.
~SPOILERS~
Hey this pig goes through some sort of religious experience and is told of a promise land of three pines to save him and others from a famine that is supposed to sweep through the area. To save pig kind he travels to the three pines on the word of some old, bearded, flying, midget, changeling, pig god. Not worth the time to watch, but worth it for the music.