Reviews for Sakasama no Patema (5.5)
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22.07.2017 11:37 -direct link(rs10172)
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22.07.2017 11:37 -direct link(rs10172)I can't honestly understand how this movie is so highly recommended.
On the plus side, we have a fairly new setting, a decent art style and a cute female protagonist (If that's a plus for you, for me it is in any case.) Also the movie does some fancy stuff with the reversed gravity.
But then we are forced to follow along one of the blandest male protagonists ever. A one dimensional villain and his henchman and the typical buddy character who doesn't get the girl because why would he? Buddy knows female protagonist her whole life and bland boy for a couple of days, so of course he falls for bland boy. Duh!
The real problem with this movie is that it thinks it's clever when it is really not.
From a technical standpoint the movie begins decent enough, but then the dreaded still frames start to happen. At first the shots just dwell on too long. (think of the of the infamous NGE scenes.) But in the last third of the movie they literally put still images all over the place, which drags the production value way way down. There is one scene with a lot of debris and the frame rate of the movie drops to outright baffling lows.
At least the music is...kinda there? Nothing special to be honest, but nothing offensive either.
If I had describe the film in one word it would be "Bland" The unique setting is absolutely wasted on the confused script, the lame revelations, the boring characters and the miserable production value, especially near the end of the movie.
If you have never seen an anime in your life, or if you are really young, then this movie maybe fun for you, but there are a lot of better alternatives. Skip this one.
On the plus side, we have a fairly new setting, a decent art style and a cute female protagonist (If that's a plus for you, for me it is in any case.) Also the movie does some fancy stuff with the reversed gravity.
But then we are forced to follow along one of the blandest male protagonists ever. A one dimensional villain and his henchman and the typical buddy character who doesn't get the girl because why would he? Buddy knows female protagonist her whole life and bland boy for a couple of days, so of course he falls for bland boy. Duh!
The real problem with this movie is that it thinks it's clever when it is really not.
Bland boys daddy has terribly accident, which functions as story line in the movie, even though it is IMMEDIATELY clear to the viewer what happened here if you ever watched a movie in your life or you paid attention how the society in this movie works.
Then we have the perfect society this all takes place. This perfect society represents itself as a soviet state, where people are literally moved around on transportation belts for their indoctrination. Sprinkle in some SS-Looking guardsman for good measure. Okay, I can dig that. Oppressive, soul crushing state machinery. But wait, our main villain (who somehow looks like he is about to set sail to colonize some savages.) is a religious nut, using words as sinner and so forth. What?
Then we have the perfect society this all takes place. This perfect society represents itself as a soviet state, where people are literally moved around on transportation belts for their indoctrination. Sprinkle in some SS-Looking guardsman for good measure. Okay, I can dig that. Oppressive, soul crushing state machinery. But wait, our main villain (who somehow looks like he is about to set sail to colonize some savages.) is a religious nut, using words as sinner and so forth. What?
From a technical standpoint the movie begins decent enough, but then the dreaded still frames start to happen. At first the shots just dwell on too long. (think of the of the infamous NGE scenes.) But in the last third of the movie they literally put still images all over the place, which drags the production value way way down. There is one scene with a lot of debris and the frame rate of the movie drops to outright baffling lows.
At least the music is...kinda there? Nothing special to be honest, but nothing offensive either.
If I had describe the film in one word it would be "Bland" The unique setting is absolutely wasted on the confused script, the lame revelations, the boring characters and the miserable production value, especially near the end of the movie.
If you have never seen an anime in your life, or if you are really young, then this movie maybe fun for you, but there are a lot of better alternatives. Skip this one.
