The animation is reason enough to see this movie. It's slick and stylish, with attention to detail that's uncharacteristic of most anime I've seen. The story itself isn't incredibly interesting, but a lot of the characters are really creative, and I wouldn't have minded the movie being an hour or more longer to develop even more aspects of the story. The ending is pretty sudden, and the way it ends kind of cheapens everything that isn't part of this one aspect of the main plot.

dirty, ugly, trashy, brutal and full of fucking shitloads of cool ideas. the action is so epically bad-ass it's unbelievable. also love how the movie constantly and consistently tops itself in its already over-the-top endeavors at the end.

Visually impressive. Rudimentary storytelling, just bursts of animated purple prose. Reminds me of Guerren Lagaan or Steamboy.

Stylish, action-packed wacky racing. Sure, the story and the characters are simple, but they all have a strange, deep charm.

Pure visual ecstasy.

Mushrooms! :-)

Very good animation with a pretty sweet soundtrack.

Balls to the wall. A lot of fun to watch - great design all around and superb animation.

SWEET JP MUST STOP FUNKY BOY FROM DESTROYING ROBOWORLD BY RACING!

Succeeded in redefining my previous notion of "over the top". Awesome style and about as ridiculous as you can get when it comes to the races. The argument can be made that it gets a bit slow toward the middle, but I'm not sure how much of that is normal speed on either sides of Fast-forward. A great...well...ride.

The "Wacky Races" of anime, this has all the color and ridiculousness of Speed Racer with less corn. My only problem is that it seems to slow down a bit too much in the middle, and I sincerely wished for more peddle to the metal. Easily Koike's most refined film...

Fucking awesome.

The adrenaline and poor joy made me shit rainbows, shooting out 300 MPH. What a BLAST!

I don't care that the story is very basic and the characters aren't well-rounded. This movie made sweet, sweet love to my eyeballs and that's all that matters. An absolute visual treat.

Redline is all about speed and visual style. Seriously, pace of this anime is insane. You kind of forget about the lack of story or one-dimensional characters when you're showered with intense colorful visuals and sounds.

Cheesy and thin on plot but fantastically detailed in the periphery, with great designs reminiscent of Moebius. Stylistically exuberant with lavish side characters-- this was just a lot of fun to watch.

A film that actually lives up to the hype. Ridiculous and relentless, it can be compared to many other movies without being dragged down by them. Highly enjoyable and wholly unique, a testament to the dedication of the man behind it all.

This film is what would happen if you took the Wachowskis' Speed Racer, made it animated, cranked up the weirdness and unrelenting visual and aural assault even further, and set it in the far future on a planet that doesn't even want the racers there, and then added some F-Zero influences. The plot is largely scènes à faire for the racing genre and the characters have no real substance to speak of, but the film more than achieves the visceral action and surface excitement it aims for.

The characters are wafer thin, the dialogue very clumsy and the story completely nonsensical. "Redline" is however a visual onslaught of the absolute best kind. The animation and design is eyepoppingly brilliant, with a clear and wide range of influences. The opening sequence in particular is brilliantly thought out and timed. Some of the later sequences are perhaps, if I'm being very critical, a little too busy and messy. Even so there are still loads of fun moments.

Capital R for Retinal Onslaught. Redline is an unapologetic amalgamation of Speedracer on crack mixed with a heavy (healthy?) dose of Moebius influenced production-design. It' also one of the very few cases where I wished for an animated feature to run at least 30 minutes longer, just to flesh out the peripheral characters. As it stands, the story runs thin, but the sheer visual spectacle makes up for it. Give this a whirl if you get the chance!