FLCL (Fooly Cooly) - Vol. 2
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Actor: Izumi Kasagi, Jun Mizuki, Kari Wahlgren, Mayumi Shintani, Shizuki YamashitaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 60 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Broccoli Int'l
Movie Reviews of FLCL (Fooly Cooly) - Vol. 2
Movie Review: You're the cat
Summary: 5 Stars
Alas, poor Naota. Not only does he consider his life totally uneventful and boring, but strange things continue to emerge from his head.
And while there's a brief lull of (relative) normalcy in the second volume of "FLCL (Fooly Cooly)," don't expect it to last for long. The third and fourth episodes of this most bizarre of animes grow even more surreal as Naoto tackles descending satellites, giant eyebrows, batting and a hi-tech doppelganger of someone close to him. And it's finally revealed just why things keep coming out of his head.
Naota is understandably annoyed when he's forced to be the cat in a school production of "Puss in Boots," and the mayor's daughter Ninamori is constantly nagging him. Ninamori has some problems of her own, since her parents are going to divorce and her father may be arrested, so the faux-cynical girl is obsessively focusing on the school play.
But when she touches Naota's latest cranial eruption -- a pair of cat ears -- Ninamori gets infected with whatever is affecting Naota. And Ninamori's true motives for the school play are revealed... right before another cranial eruption causes mass mayhem at Naota's school. Can he somehow save his classmate, or will Haruko have to come to the rescue with superspicy curry?
And that was the normal episode, for your information. What follows more than makes up for the lack of surreality.
Naota technically plays baseball, but cannot bring himself to ever swing the bat -- except, we find, when he's swinging at machines. And he finds himself troubled and jealous when he hears his father and Haruko seemingly having sex -- and further confused when a strange man with monstrous eyebrows comes in, and gives him cryptic advice about Haruko. Apparently this guy not only knows her, but knows her strange goals.
Naoto's vaguely Oedipal problems come to a head -- literally -- when he whacks his robotic dad dead... only to find out what Haruko has been trying to do to his REAL dear ol' dad. Oh yes, and a satellite with a bomb on board is about to strike the city they live in, and Haruko's batting skills may be the only thing between humanity and mass devastation.
"FLCL (Fooly Cooly)" is an anime so bizarre, so surreal, so headscratchingly wacky that you cannot watch it without wondering if someone spiked your drink. And it takes the opportunity to mock many of the tropes in anime series -- not-so-subtle sexual overtones ("If I rush, it won't pop. Go slow!"), underwear, insane alien girls, random monsters appearing, and alien robots.
And while the third episode is weird, the fourth is a cornucopia of utter strangeness -- including hallucinations, energy guitars, the Galaxy Patrol and a mummy. The plot starts off with a relatively ordinary story about rival baseball teams, but somewhere along the way it mutates. After Naota whacks his "dad" on the head, the plot starts spinning out of control -- climaxing in a psychedelic scene where Naota must bat to save his city... or something like that.
A few questions do get answered in the second volume of "FLCL (Fooly Cooly)" -- in particular, we find out why Haruko whacked people with her guitar, and why strange things keep coming out of Naota's head. It doesn't make much more sense, but we still know.
Naota still affects a too-cool-and-mature-to-care attitude, but the strangeness of his life is starting to get to him -- and he's obviously developing an interest in Haruko. And he's increasingly surrounded by troubled girls, including the bossy Ninamori, whose also-too-cool-to-care attitude hides her feelings about her parents' divorce and her father's possible imprisonment. And Haruko... is Haruko. Wild, unpredictable, mildly psycho and strangely fascinating.
The second volume of the mad, mad, mad and colourful "FLCL (Fooly Cooly)" only has two episodes, but those episodes are among the strangest in all of anime. Especially the second one. Fooly cooly!
Summary of FLCL (Fooly Cooly) - Vol. 2
Produced by GAINAX (Neon Genesis Evangelion) and animated by Production I.G. (Ghost in the Shell), FLCL takes animation to yet another level. Get ready for this shocking, funny, and right out freaky show about adolescence, expectations and alien intrigue. Naota wants to be normal. But with a talented brother leaving Japan for the US to play baseball, everyone now looks at him a bit differently. His brothers girlfriend is acting strange and now theres an even stranger girl hitting on him.Literally. With a bass guitar. Oh, did I mention the robots that keep springing from his head?Similar DVD Movies
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