Paniponi Dash, Vol. 1: Lethal Lesson
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: ADV Films
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Adv Films
Movie Reviews of Paniponi Dash, Vol. 1: Lethal Lesson
Movie Review: Immensely clever, fast, funny, and satiric
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like Japanese humor, you will love "Pani Poni Dash." It is a genuine crackpot comedy, equaled only by "Sergeant Frog," "Panda-Z", and "Excel Saga." Some viewers don't like the helter-skelter plot -- hmm? You say it doesn't *have* a plot? True... instead, PPD weaves each episode around a different theme, like cleaning the swimming pool, camping out with the kappas and their guided missiles, helping Becky the 11-year old teacher set up her laboratory, intercut with sleepy aliens in a flying saucer, a depressed rabbit, a cat-god who lives in a vending machine, and every now and then a completely different story being told in the lower part of the screen. If you want giant robots like Gundam, or horror animation like "Hellsing," or romances like "Maison Ikkoku," well, that's good, because they're all parodied at some point during PPD.
But something else is going on in PPD too. Underneath the crazy quilt of images are memories of all the things that actually happened in high school, like the time this nutcase kid wanted to make a real, working cannon in machine shop. I remember *that* a lot better than I remember what I *learned* in high school. Woven together with an elegance and flair for avant-garde animation that puts "Mind Game" to shame, PPD is what really and actually happened, for example, when Becky the teacher almost drowned in the swimming pool because some kid let the air out of the inflated raft she was sitting on. History is what we remember.
So PPD is nostalgic as well as funny. No one likes the depressed rabbit, and we end up rooting for the apprentice demon girl who plants a bomb in its head. We *never* liked that depressed rabbit. We still don't. PPD doesn't have the darkness or despair of "Q-ko-chan" - a manga that also spins together incoherent memories. It's more summery and brighter. Memories swirl kaleidoscopically in PPD, forming patterns of things that couldn't have happened, like the kappas polishing one of their guided missiles in the forest. I mean, they weren't really kappas, were they? Kappas are creatures from Japanese folklore who live in lakes and rivers. They don't really exist... do they? Are you sure?
In PPD, things that never happened but which we remember anyway become real. The result is an immensely clever, very funny story of six girls and their lives, especially the parts that didn't happen. I mean, it didn't *really* happen, did it?
Very highly recommended.
Summary of Paniponi Dash, Vol. 1: Lethal Lesson
The 11 year-old Rebecca Miyamoto becomes the new teacher of 1-C, which is full of weirdoes. Despite her cute looks she?s a little beast and can be pretty sarcastic and offensive. The school is not safe anymore now that she?s in charge of a class and her students, Himeko, Ichijo, Rei and a white bunny who took a liking to Rebecca help her to rough up the school and the neighbor-class with its teacher "old geezer".Similar DVD Movies
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