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This is my favorite film of all time, so I was wondering what people who gave it one star would have to say. The two most prominent complaints were an outdated style of animation and overdone storyline. There is a simple and reasonable explanation. This is based of elements from Metropolis by Fritz Lang and Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis manga. The animation style mimics his artwork, giving it a retro feel. Any other type would change the film's purpose and feel so drasticly that it would not be the same film at all. It is shocking to see characters drawn so inocently in the situations they encounter in this movie. The overdone storyline? THIS IS A REMAKE. A loose one, but still. You shouldn't expect anything too original, but this film delivers a storyline that is similar to many others, but better. This is a brilliant film with no flaws.
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Metropolis is an astounding artistic achievement that exemplifies the incredible power of animation at its best. High atop the impossibly vast city of Metropolis--with its towering columns, intricately woven golden pipes, and myriad staircases--the beak-nosed tyrant, Duke Red, has constructed an awesome weapon known as the Ziggurat. Within this colossal skyscraper stands an empty throne; a throne the maniacal Duke plans to fill with the android clone of his deceased daughter. He's hired genius robot designer, Dr. Laughton, to create the synthetic human masterpiece, Tima (voiced by Rebecca Forstadt, Minmei from Robotech). Duke Red's unappreciated adoptive son, Rock (head of a gang of robot-hunting vigilantes called the Marduk), vows to destroy the lovely curly-haired machine and prevent his father from giving control of the Ziggurat--and therefore the entire world--to a "mechanical puppet." Amidst the ensuing mayhem of explosions and flames, Tima is lost. She is rescued by Detective Shunsaku Ban's Astro Boy look-alike nephew, Kenichi (voiced by Brianne Siddall, Jim Hawking from Outlaw Star). Through the sprawling, neon-tinged streets of the many-zoned Metropolis, Kenichi and Tima flee the relentless gunfire of the insanely jealous Marduk leader, as countless innocent robots are slaughtered before their large, sparkling eyes. It all culminates in an unforgettable climax of emotion and chaos that ranks among the greatest scenes in cinematic history.
Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis comes to you in a lavishly illustrated folding cardboard case (rather than the more convenient standard plastic keep case). Included along with the movie disc is a miniature DVD with special features, including a gallery of model sheets, animation comparisons, filmographies, interviews with Rintaro and Katsuhiro Otomo, and the `Making of Metropolis' Animax special. No DVD collection should be without this enthralling tour de force of animated brilliance!
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THE MOST MOVING ANIMATED MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN MY 30 YEARS.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!
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The first thing I'd like to do is just clear up a few things that negative reviews have been hooked on and maybe shed a bit of clarity on what is being shown in the movie.
-Origins : It comes from a manga written by Osamu Tezuka, the founder of anime, and is loosely based on that. It borrows themes from the black and white movie "Metropolis" as well but when you watch it, its best just to let the movie unfold itself instead of you forcing it to fit any particular mold.
-The animation : There are a lot of different animation choices moving around here. you have the deco-style buildings which jut across the skyline of metropolis, the astro-boy style human beings with large eyes and exagerated features (eyes, arms, noses), and then the cyberpunk innards of the city, as well as the much more "real" and dirty areas beneath the city. the humans are MEANT to stand out against the deco, everything isn't supposed to fit neatly together in a single style. in the movie this is shown in the plot; the elite humans (duke red, the president, etc), common people, the robots, and the city all are at odds with each other. Its not supposed to be hyper-realistic, the styles chosen are deliberate and invoke specific contrasts.
-Plot : At times things trip and fall, but I think part of the incongruity is on purpose. The chaos and sort of non-sequiter plot lines are actually just intended to encase the story of 1)humanity's fear of the 'other' 2)Tima and Kenichi. Except for Tima, the other characters just kind of putter out (aside from Luke, or Rock in the U.S. version) but her story was fantastically strong when placed within the struggle of humanity (with its own inner turmoil) and the servants they created.
In conclusion, this movie is just saturated in AMAZING visuals and great jazzy music (I couldn't think of a more appropriate use of "I cant stop loving you" by Ray Charles at the end), and it contains a story of a search for a 'self' within the fantastical world of Metropolis. Characters broaden and shrink the scope of where they place themselves here, yet everyone lands in own unique niche. But for the staleness of character development/bogged plot I drop half a star.
4.5/5 - A must see, for movie fans with open eyes.
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I was first attracted to buying this DVD while watching the "Previews" section added onto the last disk of the 2004 Astro Boy anime DVD series I bought from Amazon this year. When I saw the animation quality of Metropolis, I wanted to see more.
In a nutshell, here's how this film plays out, in parallel to Astro Boy, under Osamu Tezuka's direction:
The Duke loses his daughter, Tinma; just like Dr. Tenma loses his son Tobio in Astro Boy. Both men have robots built to replace their lost children, except in Metropolis, Duke's adopted son, Rock, detains the Duke and his robot daughter from meeting each other; whereas Astro meets his father from the moment he's born. Rock does this simply because Tinma, the Duke's robot daughter, is to rule on the throne of the earth as a robot, over humans and robots. Sounds allot like Astro Boy to me whose job is to bring peace between humans and robots as a mighty peace ruler. Rock feels only a human should sit on the throne of the earth; with that human being his adopted father, who Rock loves dearly we learn.
Rock first kills the doctor who created Tinma, as well as tries to kill Tinma before she awakens, via his attack on the robot factory, but Tinma survives and is aided by a boy who is working alongside a character that looks just like Daddy Mustache in the Astro Boy series. This Daddy Mustache "look alike" is a detective sent from Tokyo to investigate the whole affair.
In the end, Osamua introduces a different twist from the Astro Boy premise. Where with Astro Boy, he shows the king of robots bridging the gap between humans and robots, in this film he shows what happens when that does not happen, with Tinma assuming the throne and the desire to destroy all humans. Rock, who you might think is bad in the beginning, is really one of the good guys and gives his life to save all of humanity. Lots of pathos in the end and a certain level of violence in this film in terms of some characters being killed along the way.
The story is very good and more or less asks the question; "what if robots or IA did take control of the world and tried to destroy mankind. How would mankind survive." We've seen this plot played out in films like Robo cop, The Terminator and as recent as I-Robot; so the idea isn't new in filmaking. Well, mankind does survive, but I won't tell you how or I'll spoil the explosive ending for you if you purchase this film and watch it.
The animation alone is well worth the price of admission and it still has a good story plot, though not new. It does come with a small DVD disk with lots of feature behind the scene stuff, but its all in Japanese with no english translation. This was a let down, which is why I gave this four stars. The packaging is great. No problems with the disks. Delivery was timely. No complaints.
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