Rakuen Tsuiho: Expelled from Paradise

It was pretty good. The animation is spectacular, almost too spectacular. There were times I thought I might have a seizure, but it was still dazzling. The first part of the story is fairly conventional: sharp, focused woman is paired with lazy, uncommitted slacker. (Think "True Grit" or "A Few Good Men" or "The Princess and the Frog" or "Trading Places" or "Flushed Away" or "Zootopia".) Essentially, she leaves The Matrix in order to combat a threat in the real world. The mystery part of the movie wasn't terribly interesting, but it got better when the two main characters stop racing around long enough to discuss their different worlds. The film concludes with a huge, action sequence, but there isn't much tension since there is no element of "How are they going to pull this off?" They're going to pull it off by having tons more firepower. It was an entertaining film, but not terribly original.

I went into this movie thinking it would just be a cool action movie with nice animation, and too be honest, that is what it is. The movie centers around Angela Balzac, as she is sent down to an now apocalyptic Earth to track a hacker, where the remaining humans try to live their lives. This movie provides a good story of 1h 40mins which you will enjoy, but not think about too much after that.

The movie tries to question whether robot could essentially act and be human, however, it never quite succeeds at that, so going into this movie, don't expect it to have deep questions. Instead enjoy the cool action and interesting animation that is displayed. Overall, I thought this movie was fine, nothing too bad, nothing too great, but I wouldn't mind a sequel to it.

I wrote this as a slight counterpoint to ANN's glowing review: The movie is now rated with a "good" and my big problem is how scenario crazy it is. There is way to much world building and explanations for a film of 100 min. runtime. It felt more like a extended pilot or something. I like the characters(well all 3 of them) and it didn't have the expected 3rd act trouble as i feared. The music/Va's were further good and the Cg is a B- for me. It looked nice when a lot happened but the calmer are looked off. That said it is a bad idea in general to try and make low budgeted(or otherwise)CG characters look sexually appealing as it will backfire as seen here. I also wonder where the 16 year old body came from but let's just assume that it is a clever compromise to look appealing to a wider crowd who would be frightened if their leading lady was an obachan in her 20s. And now in ANN magic points. Overall(sub):B- / Story:B- / Animation:B- / Art:B / Music:B+. A good one time popcorn flick and that is all. Giovanni's Island is 2014's best anime film, the Lego Movie the best overall but this is also twice the movie the similar 009 Re:Cyborg tried to be.

First, the animation is undisputed as a masterpiece, it's a combination of hand drawing and 3D modeling, and the music is one of the best of all anime. Gen Urobuchi did a perfect on writing the plot, even though it's completely different from his original style, you will understand if you watched any of his other works. The story is more emotional and more meaningful than any of you had thought. It has multiple themes, and the most protruding one is about freedom. What's the true freedom? Is it the approach of physical freedom release from pain and death? Or is it social freedom, where people get to keep their individuality? In the story, DEVA was illustrated as a utopian, but it's not. There's no privacy, the government gets to know everything that you're doing, and everyone is forced to follow the order and decision from the authority figures. Disobedience could end in ephemeral isolation, where death isn't an option.

Normally, I will give it a 9, but it's rating is too low for me to do so.

Good watch, will likely watch again, and can recommend for anime fans that don't mind some fan service.

This is a great, Matrix like premise for a story, but let's the get the obvious stuff out of the way: yes, her outfit is ridiculous, and while the idea that they can grow clones and harvest them prematurely, it was a very unnecessary that her body be the equivalent of 16 years of age, I'd even go as far as to argue that it would be detrimental if all the hormones and everything are balanced naturally.

THAT aside, I love the concepts that are used in this: the technological aspects of digitizing humans, having A.I.: the moral philosophical quandries it presents about freedom, society, and fixed resources.

The biggest problem is part of the premise, the entire time the characters are floundering for position in this discussion of dealing with each others' cultures so you never really feel like you're completely on anyone's side. That shifts a little in the 3rd act, but no by much.

But if you like action: robots, gunfire, explosions, and / or cool sci-fi stuff, this anime has it.