Misc_T

Although this movie is unquestionable breathtaking from an animation standpoint, it leaves much to be desired as a cohesive narrative. The plot was not too confusing (other than trying to keep track of which government agency was Section 6, which was Section 9, and which was Section 8 -- I just gave up, and it turned out to not be particularly important), but it never really did anything with the premise it established. The action? Well, it was good, but there wasn't much of it. The philosophy? It wasn't particularly well developed, and the dialogue behind it was horrifically expository. The moody, atmospheric montages? Well, they were dead-on, but those simply can't define a movie by themselves. The filmmaker would have done well to have chosen a single theme and developed it in both cinematic sequences and the occasional burst of dialogue rather than only the latter. As it stands, the movie is painfully unsatisfying, and stands as a purely aesthetic achievement in my eyes. Oh yeah -- and the voice acting in the English-dubbed version was quite bad; particularly that of the protagonist. The philosophical exchange on the boat? She is inexcusably bad there. Not that the dialogue provides much to work with...

Ahh, Frogtown II. I caught this thing on USA around 2AM last night... I honestly can't believe this thing was only 90 minutes. They didn't even show that many commercials... yet I was up till 5:30 watching it. Oh GOD it hurt, but I had to sit through it. Intensely low-budget fx, a hero with a really weird jaw and about three crappy scifi movies' worth of premises jammed into one make for... well... somethin. Really, I can't believe this was shot on film. It's tremendously awful... no one had any idea what they were doing. My personal favorite is the four-minute long song sung by the frog-person band, apparently just to express the movies' animosity toward the teenage mutant ninja turtle franchise. But I don't want to sell short the evil twins, cyborg frog heads or texas rocket rangers. So I'll just say... save yourself. Cause once you start watching, you'll be forced to sit there "waiting for the good part", to make sure the universe makes sense, because nothing that bad could get worse, right? Well... let's just say I don't know what to believe in any more.