I kept waiting for something interesting to happen but it never did.
It is an anti-capitalist fairy-tale set in the near future.
The animation style is unusual and original but no one seems to have noticed that different is always the same as good. You have some photo-realistic parts, mostly the faces, coupled with animated parts but neither is done well. In the animated parts any movement, walking in particular, looks like those 1950s cartoons where everything is jerky, more like the movement of a puppet than a person, maybe this is an intentional style but it just looks badly drawn. In the photo-realistic parts they are just realistic enough to make their flaws seem bigger, the faces look excellent when not moving but when they should be showing facial expressions they look dead, and this is distracting in a way that normal animation isn't.
The plot is rubbish; a dull, unimaginative and unoriginal story with nothing to recommend it.
The pace is really slow, this might be because 10 minutes of plot is being stretched into a whole film.
The characters have little personality and what they have isn't likable.
I like dark films, I like sci-fi, I like animation and yet I honestly could not find a single thing to like in this film.
It is an anti-capitalist fairy-tale set in the near future.
The animation style is unusual and original but no one seems to have noticed that different is always the same as good. You have some photo-realistic parts, mostly the faces, coupled with animated parts but neither is done well. In the animated parts any movement, walking in particular, looks like those 1950s cartoons where everything is jerky, more like the movement of a puppet than a person, maybe this is an intentional style but it just looks badly drawn. In the photo-realistic parts they are just realistic enough to make their flaws seem bigger, the faces look excellent when not moving but when they should be showing facial expressions they look dead, and this is distracting in a way that normal animation isn't.
The plot is rubbish; a dull, unimaginative and unoriginal story with nothing to recommend it.
The pace is really slow, this might be because 10 minutes of plot is being stretched into a whole film.
The characters have little personality and what they have isn't likable.
I like dark films, I like sci-fi, I like animation and yet I honestly could not find a single thing to like in this film.