If you want to ask me why, the answer is simple - HITF is highly philosophic though it's just a simple children story. Such combination is very difficult to create. Lets say Shrek, for example. It's a great movie due to fantastic technical side. It's very pretty, just look at that lovely green ogre. I can say no more on that point - it was a great pleasure to see that film. But where is a great idea in Shrek? Love? Yeah... And? What could it be more important that love? That's where the HITF comes. It's a film about a prickly little creature, which is lost in the fog. Not a huge ogre, who can confront any danger without any silly donkeys. Not a Schwarzenegger with a big bazooka or something like that. It (hedgehog) can nothing to do against the evil life around him. By the by, there's love in this film, love of another kind, a sympathy to the poor curious hedgehog, or a closely friendship between Hedgehog and Bear. Sergei Kozlov made a whole book about them (named "Yozhik"), and any short story in it could pretend to be a film like that.
Review of Hedgehog in the Fog
