Oink (Dutch: Knor) is a 2022 Dutch stop-motion animated comedy film based on the book The Revenge of Oink by Tosca Menten. It was the first stop motion feature film ever made in the Netherlands. The film premiered on the 72nd edition of the Berlin Film Festival. The film won three Golden Calves for Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Production Design. Making it the first animated film to ever win these awards. It also received the Golden Film, a distinction for Dutch films with more than 100.000 tickets sold during its release. The film also made it on the shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature but wasn't nominated.
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Plot
In 1994, during the 75th edition of the King Sausage Contest at Moppel, two butchers, Smak and Tuitjes, wind up in a fight after the former's sausages are criticized for containing rat tails, which leads both of them to be disqualified from the contest for 25 years.
25 years later, young girl Babs is a vegetarian whose family forbids any kind of meat, and has a brother, Tijn. One day, on her birthday, she adopts a piglet at a farm, who she names "Oink". The next day, Tuitjes explains that Smak is intending to use Oink to produce sausages for the 100th edition of the King Sausage Contest.
The following day, Oink wrecks her mother's vegetable garden after being forced to take a bath, much to her mother's dismay. Babs, refusing to let Oink go, gives her mother one more chance for her pet. She takes Oink to a pet obedience test to try to train the piglet with Tuitjes' help, and succeeds in doing so. After that she and Tuitjes decides to throw a party for Oink. At the party back home, after Oink accidentally defecates on the floor, her mother orders Babs to take the pig back to the farm as it is causing trouble, but Babs refuses.
Smak reveals to Babs that Tuitjes is actually intending to use Oink to make sausages for the contest. On the day of the 100th edition of the King Sausage Contest, Tuitjes abducts Oink. Babs and Tijn go to a shed at the farm, where they find Oink being held captive here. Tuitjes nearly forces Oink into a meat grinder, but the piglet's excrement is used on the grinder instead, prompting him to flee on a tractor with the piglet. Babs' family arrive, and they all pursue and stop Tuitjes, and rescue Oink. Tuitjes unintentionally takes the excrement sausages to the contest, not only when he suddenly realizes that he took the wrong ones in, leading him to getting disqualified from the contest permanently and resulting in Smak winning the title of King Sausage of the Century. One year later, her family joins the contest, making new kinds of sausages. Babs wins the contest, while Tuitjes infiltrates the contest in a costume.
King Sausage
In July 2022, It was announced that a prequel of the film is being made. The prequel will have most of the same voice cast and will take place 25 years before the events of the first film. The 20-minute-long short film is titled King Sausage and follows the parents of Babs.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 6 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10.