Mini-Review: While very moving at times, the story which takes some time to get going slowly moves to the background, and characters grow very little. I wish we had seen more of Melies, especially when he was working on his craft, and was left thinking perhaps his god daughter would have been the better protagonist. This film gets most of its credit from me for its message, though.
Mini-Review: I get what they're trying to do, I just think they were going about it completely wrong and sucking every ounce of funny out of it as a result. Maybe I've just seen too many clips of real public access travesties to find the artificial version funny anymore. You have to work really hard to make intentional "so bad its good" work, and they just didn't try hard enough. The whole thing was a real letdown, because they do many of the little things right, but the film in a macro sense was unfunny.
Mini-Review: 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.
Mini-Review: Possibly the most 80s film ever?
Mini-Review: Nothing quite like it came before or since.
Mini-Review: Nothing of note here.
Mini-Review: The film studies extreme depression without coming to any conclusions or offering up a cause, and without any other direction for it to go, it tosses us into a genre film. The performances and cinematography were brilliant, however.