Metropolis

I was bored watching this.

Somehow the breathtaking climax with great use of 'Can't Stop Loving You' doesn't quite lift this movie up to where it needs to be. Which is too bad, because with better storytelling this could have been a classic. It could have class. It could have been a contender. It could have been 'Ghost in the Shell' meets 'Metropolis' (Fritz Lang's, that is).

The animation is beautiful (and a good ode to Ozuka), but the movie just feels like it lacks something. The CG with animation is okay, but I've never really been comfortable with it.

This film has far more personality than it has any right to. I can't remember a thing about the story, and the characters looked stupid, but the way everything was put together with the dixie-hokum soundtrack just made it transfixing. It's a Japanese New Orleans crazy mash-up love-child that somehow feels chill, homely and familiar. St. James Infirmary was amazing.

feels like an anime rip off of blade runner, which even though regurgitated with humongous eyes and other assorted unnaturally proportioned body parts is still a pretty good story.