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Perfect Blue

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Perfect Blue
Review: A great film with fluid animation and unique cuts. Me being mostly facinated with the music group 'cham' I was happily surprised with the 'cham' video in the menu. The English dub is horrible, don't even consider watching it unless you have nothing else to do. Great picture quality and dolby 5.1 ;)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: engrossing; mostly effective
Review: Effectively mounted psycho-thriller stumbles at the end, but like most decent entries in the genre, it keeps you engrossed throughout. Its creepy and evocative mood will envelope you, and your sense of reality will be as blurred as Mima's (evident in the brilliantly prolonged sequence where it seems that she keeps waking up from a dream). The animation is nothing spectacular, but with subject matter like this, who can complain.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It's almost perfect...
Review: I was really impressed by Perfect Blue. The symbolisn and artistry was at a peak; and the story was very horrorshow. Although my favorite is still Akira... Perfect Blue has managed to raise an eyebrow. It's not for eveyone though, a lot of nudity...

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A haunting mind trip
Review: This movie is haunting in it's pacing and imagery. At points aswe see Japan, we forget that we are watching animation and imagine weare watching a film. At points that is. There is also some rough roughanimation that detracts. But the story, the characters, the pacing all works, and you get drawn in. And ... you get those Cham songs stuck in your head, I warn you now!

Also there is some great supplemental information about the cast, directors and the company that released it. This is a special movie and MANGA obviously agreed, because they gave it a great support package.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: It is Perfect... Yes.. It is very Blue...!
Review: I haven't seen such a good anime for a very long time. This anime is definitely much better than any of the Disney's titles. Anyone who thinks this anime is bad is really a sad person... yes, I must warn you that this can be a very disturbing movie. So disturbing that it is worth the watching it again and again. Can't really explain it.. You just have to watch it yourself.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Perfect Blue, Perfect Film
Review: Perfect Blue is a perfect psychological thriller which wonderfully places the spectator firmly into the mind of the protagonist, Mima Kirigoe. As a Japanese pop idol attempting to shed her idol image to become an actress, the identity crisis which quickly envelopes her is also vividly felt by the spectator. Furthernore, the triple separation - between dream, Mima's first role in the television thriller "Double Bind," and the real-world events of Mima's life surrounding her shift to an acting career - is so fuzzy that the spectator becomes just as confused as Mima, which is itself a superb and refreshing facet of the film.

Those who do now know Japanese are are not habituated to watching films with subtitles should see the dubbed version first, as the necessity of literally "reading" a film would detract from the overall experience due to the spectator's wavering attention between the subtitles and the almost non-stop on-screen action. Perfect Blue is, in my opinion, a perfect film (except that the characters - all Japanese - appear to be "white") - or as close to perfection as is possible in animation.

However, MINORS SHOULD NOT SEE THIS FILM due to some highly adult scenes. Even most adults will find these scenes to be extremely troubling.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: unPerfect Blue
Review: an admirable attempt but hardly Hitchcockian. i don't know if it's because something was lost in the translation from japanese to english or that the director tried so hard not to be outguessed by the audience that logical progression did not, well, progress. the story just didn't flow. instead of the "aha! no wonder... amazing!" what i got was "what the ...! that's it!" although i'm disappointed i still would recommend that you see this film. maybe you could tell me about the things that i missed.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pizza Planet
Review: I totally disagree with Roger Corman's selling line "If Hitchcock and Disney..." not because it lacks mastery, on the contrary, this mystery and suspence (and sometimes real horror) has surpassed by far the 50's style that someone could expect from this ancient masters of movies now nostalgic. I would say that the team who partnered to make this film were Tenebre's Dario Argento and Akira's Katsuhiro Otomo. Like in "Tenebre" (a film I hope I will never see again) the more you see the less you expect that all this will end the way it ends, and of course, the horror consumes you and every minute is like an eternity to you (you will never call to a pizza delivery again) and like in "Akira" the amazing animation work is a real master's work (specially the first chasing scene). WARNING: don't let the childist beginning fools you, it is made to take away your defences.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Perfect Blue
Review: Perfect Blue is a extremely violent film that should NOT BE VIEWED BY ANY CHILD. Due to its graphic content, MATURE AUDIENCE'S ONLY! If you make the cut I highly suggest you watch this suspenseful piece of animation.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What the heck is goin on?
Review: I watched this movie and at first was a bit confused. After watching it over and over finding new info I began to understand and love it. The best part of this film was that you could repeat watching it. There was little nudity but kids should still not watch. I loved the characters and was constantly assuming who the real killer was, and the ending is amazing. Excellently written, drawn and produced


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