Reviews

ramble

Really neato animation and art direction. Clever bits, like the "News Flash" logo on TV was the one from Sesame Street! I laughed really hard sometimes...

It unfortunately didn't keep its momentum after the first 15 min (when the plot becomes important), but it's only an hour film. I did enjoy the film overall though.

Relatively hard techno music in a kid's film is interesting...

ramble> Recommended if you like the series, or if you're interested in seeing a seriously different animation style.

Excellent movie. I've seen it about 10 times now. The soundtrack rocks, with all sorts of 3's, 6's and 9's in it. (9 note melodies, melodies repeated 6 times, thirds for intervals...) Nearly flawless editing, I can't find any plot mistakes. Great film noir atmosphere. Excellent acting by Johnny Depp and Frank Langella.

Roger Ebert gave it 2 stars, because he didn't like how vague the ending was. The vague ending is one of the things that I think makes it excellent.

The title sequence is one of my favorites ever, right up there with Se7en.