Metropolis
by Rintaro
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Actor: G? Nagai, Jamieson Price, Kei Kobayashi, Kouki Okada, Yuka ImotoDirector: Rintaro
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-23
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Metropolis
Movie Review: Aestheticly unique.
Summary: 4 Stars
While anyone can harp about the character designs not matching up with the background, its more important to apreciate what this anime did deliver, and that would be overall aesthetic quality. I my self actualy wanted a more expanded version of Metropolis even after I finished watching it, which is more than I could say for most movies. Im aware that the manga does exist and is problaly better, but in many cases the graphic novel or novel in general is always prefered by audiences who have actualy read them. For example there are many discreptincy's between Jurassic Park and Micheal Crichton's Novel, including The Lost world. were the books as good as the movies? at least in this case not quite. The only redeming factor of the movie was the sheer aesthetic value and suspense, I have never seen anything so realistic, especialy considering how increadibly limited CG technology was back in the early 90's. Anyways if you like quality work metropolis is for you. Finaly I would like to point out that the character designs are made to look like Osamu Tezuka's characters, while he himself never wanted this particular work to become an anime for reasons unknown I still think it was a good idea to get it out there.
Summary of Metropolis
Adapted from Osamu Tezuka's 1949 manga, Metropolis (in Japanese with English subtitles) is an opulently beautiful film that fails to present a coherent story worthy of its extraordinary visuals. Evil Duke Red (voice by Taro Ishida) plans to rule the world from Ziggurat, his newly completed art deco tower. A new robot is being developed by his henchman Dr. Laughton (Junpei Takeguchi) to control all the machines in the world from Ziggurat. Japanese detective Shunsaku Ban (Kousei Tomita) and his nephew Kenichi (Kei Kobayashi) arrive in Metropolis in pursuit of Laughton and are plunged into Red's plot. When the duke's maniacal adopted son Rock (Kohki Okada) attacks Laughton's hidden lab, Kenichi and the waiflike android Tima (Yuka Imoto) flee into the city's subterranean slums and fall in love. Despite a protracted series of chases and violent shootouts, there's little excitement and less character development. Director Rintaro (Hayashi Shigeyuki) borrows heavily from Fritz Lang's 1926 Metropolis, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira, but his staging makes much of the action hard to follow. The film takes an unintentionally hilarious turn when Ziggurat crumbles to Ray Charles's "I Can't Stop Loving You." The computer-generated skyscrapers, machines, and airships offer dazzling vistas of an overscaled and sinister deco-dystopia. But Tezuka's flat little characters, with their big eyes, round noses, and bubble-shaped feet, don't fit into that realistic three-dimensional environment. MPAA rating: PG. Contains considerable violence and grotesque imagery. --Charles SolomonScience Fiction & Fantasy DVD Video
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