I had absolutely no clue what to expect from this movie. All I had seen were those really cool posters and I'm glad to say that the actual animation of the movie is brilliant. It's an utterly seamless mix of live action, 3D CGI and traditional drawn images. A wonderfully detailed and beautiful world is created and it's highly atmospheric. A shame that the story ends up being crud.
In the future, thanks to major pollution, the world lives under constant rain that has destroyed civilisation to the point of near extinction. There are some folks who still live in luxury in a huge, self-contained city called Echo-Ban (why it's called this is anyone's guess) who take advantage of the peasants living in shanty towns out in the miserable weather.
Inside Echo-Ban there is this supercomputer that has a secret button that will blow a hole in the sky so big that the rain will disappear and sunshine will return. Yes, it's absolute total nonsense and silly science is all through this movie. You won't have a clue what anyone is talking about or what any of the hardware is. And why doesn't anyone simply press this secret button sooner? What is it about living under rain that the posh folks are willing to kill for? Still, it's miles better than that awful Final Fantasy movie. Just don't expect to remember it for very long. Nice try however, it's the story that lets it down.
In the future, thanks to major pollution, the world lives under constant rain that has destroyed civilisation to the point of near extinction. There are some folks who still live in luxury in a huge, self-contained city called Echo-Ban (why it's called this is anyone's guess) who take advantage of the peasants living in shanty towns out in the miserable weather.
Inside Echo-Ban there is this supercomputer that has a secret button that will blow a hole in the sky so big that the rain will disappear and sunshine will return. Yes, it's absolute total nonsense and silly science is all through this movie. You won't have a clue what anyone is talking about or what any of the hardware is. And why doesn't anyone simply press this secret button sooner? What is it about living under rain that the posh folks are willing to kill for? Still, it's miles better than that awful Final Fantasy movie. Just don't expect to remember it for very long. Nice try however, it's the story that lets it down.