Then it ended up on Reddit, 4chan, 9GAG and it sort of traveled in the UK and became popular ... My mum bought the photos, thought it was cute, whatever. I would have been eight years old and I would ...

Taika Waititi directed this short film about a boy and an octopus who become, quite literally, inseparable — that is, until, a new friend for cute cephalopod comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve.