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Summary: An Art Film !! NOT Walt Disney
Review: My four year old daughter picked this DVD off the shelf and demanded that it be bought. The only other anime I have watched is Princess Mononoke, Akira, and Grave of the Fireflies. This one really blew me away.
The cinematography and characeterization is unique and is mildly antagonist in a unique and delightful sense. Art deco buildings and unique perspective really are icing to the visual feast.
The story line is really complex and intense. There is jealousy, lust for power, revoltion, destruction, and love. It is like a blend of the Bible, Blade Runner A.I., and Akira. Most of the Walt Disney flicks have a space just after the opening scenes where the background of the story is given to the viewer. This is distinctly missing from this movie. It allows you to figure out/dream up the background. It keeps the viewer locked in to the film using all of the senses. The plot is definitely not Disneyesque. Though the end may leave you with a small sense of hope and faith in love.
The sound track is really wonderful and adds greatly to story line. Much has been made of the song near the end. This really adds dimension to the plots focus on love.
This film is not animation like Walt Disney. If you like watching unique flicks that let you fill in the blanks you will love Metropolis. This is one of the few flicks that my four year old daughter has pulled off the shelf that I don't mind watching over and over again.
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Summary: Problem in the DVD
Review: Excuse my poor English
I watched Metropolis in a movie festival here in Brazil last year. After the credits they show a scene - a picture of the characters after the end of the anime. It explained what was left untold in the end.
I bought the dvd and there is no such scene after the credits. Looks like when they cut the japanese credits and put the english ones, they didn't notice that the last image was gone.
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Summary: Problem in the DVD
Review: Excuse my poor English.
I watched Metropolis in a movie festival here in Brazil last year. After the credits they show a scene - a picture of the characters after the end of the anime. It explained what was left untold in the end.
I bought the dvd and there is no such scene after the credits. Looks like when they cut the japanese credits and put the english ones, they didn't notice that the last image was gone.
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Summary: Tour de Force
Review: Truly one of the most innovative anime films in recent history. It takes a tried and true sci-fi premise and wraps it in the most spectacular visual package I've seen since Ghost in the Shell was first released. Furukawa creates a rich and textured future world and populates it with characters that are a joy to get to know. Kenichi is one of those classic characters caught up in events much larger than himself. Like Kineda in Akira or Shinji in the Evangelion series, he generates such empathy you can't help but love him.
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Summary: Great Movie, Questionable Transfer
Review: I agree with everyone's comments concerning the content itself. The retro-look of the characters combined with the CG backgrounds was a refreshing change from a lot of the animation out there today. Also, it was nice having a story that one could actually enjoy (too many well-animated movies try to pass off poor narrativity or just bad writing as hipness or artistic conceit). My major issue with this DVD is that the transfer looked horrible. I tried the DVD on a couple of different DVD players and for some reason there was a lot of visual noise / blurring in many of the scenes and a lot of loss of detail. I found myself straining to make out details I know must have been in the original shot but that somehow didn't survive the transfer to DVD (again, I don't think there was a hardware power issue). I have seen this type of problem with other movie transfers, and I don't think that in this case my problem was simply one of having a defective copy. If other people have noticed this issue as well, I would appreciate confirmation. To summarize: I thought this was a great movie, but I think the visual problems outlined above make it difficult to recommend for purchase. It's frustrating, actually, because you get a sense of how gorgeous the movie must be and then not being able to see it that way. Please see the movie, though, one way or another.
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Summary: Anime eye candy for the the imagination...
Review: While this DVD set comes with all the standard bells and whistles, the real prize in this package is the film itself. Metropolis, the film, is adapted from Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga (comic book) of the same name. Filmed after his death, and against his expressed wishes, this film is dazzling and beautiful beyond belief. Using both standard cell and CGI animation combined, the director, Rintaro, and his crew have put together one of the most stunning animated films ever released. Metropolis the film is a marvel of beauty and imagination, unbelievable in it's scale and detail. Metropolis the world is a dystopian city of the future that is divided between the "Haves" and "Have Nots"; and even among the underclass there is conflict and the oppression of segregation between the poor miserable human underclass and the robot workers that have taken their jobs. The story of Metropolis revolves around a Japanese boy named Kenichi and a robot "girl" called Tima. The film opens with a powerful and corrupt mogul by the name of Duke Red presiding over a massive celebration to mark the completion of his mammoth art deco-style skyscraper called the Ziggurat. Unbeknownst by the celebrants, Duke Red has nefarious plans to rule the world from this foreboding sky-high tower; and soon. To this end, Duke Red has commissioned a wanted criminal/vivisectionist by the name of Dr. Laughton to build him a robot in the image of his deceased daughter. With this surrogate robotic daughter, Duke Red plans to control all of the machines on the planet from the safety of his towering citadel. Hot on the trail of Dr. Laughton though is a Japanese detective named Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi. This unlikely pair have tracked Laughton to Metropolis from Japan and are intent on capturing their him. Following a tip on the whereabouts of Dr. Laughton, Kenichi and his Uncle, along with a police robot that has been assigned to assist them in their search, track Laughton to the secret lab that Duke Red has provided for him to complete his work. Unfortunately for them, they arrive just after Duke Red's malevolent adopted son Rock has murdered Dr. Laughton and set the lab on fire in an attempt to foil his "father's" plans. Kenichi, spotting the trapped robot Tima through a window, rushes into the burning building to rescue her. Kenichi becomes separated from his Uncle after he and Tima fall through the burning floorboards down into the sewers below Metropolis. This begins a series of encounters, and through these adversities he and Tima are drawn together and begin to fall in love. There are a variety of stories going on here, and a multitude of positive & negative relationships between the various characters (as well as the divergent classes), all of which lead this story to it's final climax. While I'm sure many people will not find this film their cup of tea, anyone interested in either anime or science fiction will find many things to appreciate in director Rintaro's interpretation of Osamu Tezuka's creation. Building on a script by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) and the technical skills of many traditional and computer animators, Rintaro has created a world that will be recognizable to anyone familiar with either the original Fritz Lang film (1927) or the world of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982), and yet still startling in it's level of detail and the verve of it's animation techniques. While the characters are of the cartoony variety (exaggerated, big eyes, etc.) and the jazzy Dixieland musical soundtrack by Toshiyuki Honda is a bit unconventional and doesn't always feel organic to the film, these are small quibbles when stacked against the magnitude of the canvas this story is being told on.
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Summary: The Anime of Animes
Review: This anime feature should become fieldstone in Anime. The animation is breathtaking. It has the feel of the oldies, yet the characters move so fluidly it's amazing. Nothing in American animation can compare with this. This beautiful blend of animation and 3-D computer animation is astounding. The characters, the story, the action will thrill you. This is nothing you have ever seen before.
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Summary: Welcome to... METROPOLIS
Review: I waited for what seemed like years to see this movie but when I finally did see it, it lived up to all expectations. It's about a 20's version of the future where robots are just as smart as humans but they are treated differently. The story goes much much deeper than that but i don't want to explain it.
ANIMATION:10/10: It's a mix between anime a fifties cartoon and computer graphics. I personally thought they blended very well. Although the CG wasn't superb it WAS passable and there was a whole lot of it.
SOUND:9/10: In the theatrical release there was no english dubbing, it was left in it's original japanese form with subtitles. However the DVD has the english language and the original japanese language. The dubbing is actually quite good. The music was EXCELLENT! However if your not into jazz you should probably turn the sound off and just read the subtitles. At the end when they played "i can't stop loving you" it had a really weird effect on you but it was cool.
CHARACTERS:9/10: Metropolis has realistic lovable characters that wear cool clothes. (Rock's boots are tight!!!)
OVERALL:10/10. Metropolis is a must see and a must own. Buy the DVD.
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Summary: Wow! What a mind trip!
Review: Every now and then, you will stumble upon a movie that takes your mind and imagination to the absolute limits... then pushes it even further. Akira was one of these movies, and untill now, I have yet to see many that rate better than the classic Akira. Now, Metropolis - what I may call the best anime ever created - has been released and it is oh so good! I received my order just yesterday, and allready I have watched it 3 times! It is so complex, that every time I see it, I find new things! The animation is classic of the 1950s Japan era, and the music follows the same time line with big band and jazz music. The integration of the two gives an absolutely astounding effect. THIS MOVIE IS AN ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE!!!!! YOU MUST SEE THIS MOVIE! IT IS GOOD! SEE IT! Your mind will truely benifit :)
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Summary: dead...
Review: the ending is sad 'cause tima...case closed.there better be a sequal.
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