Including Derek's reply, cuz, well, posterity requires the archival of
him PRAISING an animated film :-)
Derek Janssen wrote:
> Wasabi wrote:
>
>> D B Malmquist wrote:
>>
It's coming to Seattle on August 29, according the the web site
mentioned later in the post. don't see DC though. I hear that DC
Anime Club is arranging a screening in The Nation's Capital. Cross
your fingers and sacrifice those rats.
>> Yes, this film is definitely worth seeing. Less showy than Paprika,
>
> (Wow, MORE realistic and down-to-earth than Paprika? ;)
> When this is our qualifying yardstick, we are officially in trouble.)
>
>> but
>> unlike Paprika it has a heart: the characters are very engaging so that you
>> really care about them, which really adds an edge to this beautiful film,
>> which starts out hilariously funny but ends with a great sense of pathos.
>
> I'll give it my highest rating, and say that it's an animated feature
> that ISN'T depressing, that moves at normal speeds of movement, and has
> a coherent A-B plot.
QFOMG-ness (Quoted For OMG-ness)
> Which, unfortunately, also puts it on the level of a better-than-average
> looking shoujo OVA, but until it's on disk, a theater viewing won't hurt.
>
> Derek Janssen (yes--We're praising a theatrical anime feature by saying
> it ISN'T painful...Such is the genre. -_- )
Heh. But theatrical anime features are a commercial distribution
model, not a genre, Mr. Chihiro-Saved-Us-All ^_^
Terrence Briggs, caught Tim Sito's and Tom Minton's names on the Click
& Clack animated series. How much to get them off?
