There's nothing like a modern-day film that shows you all the platitude trappings of adulthood whilst simultaneously igniting a spark in your heart that takes you back to your youth. MLE did that for me. It's a cool, light-hearted collection of stories with everything you'd expect from a compelling 80's sci-fi animation if it were set in earthy areas of East London in the 21st Century.
Sarah Warren plays jobbing actress, Julia Robert (poor girl!) whose slowly running out of money, trying to get by in the big city, doing what she has to do. A lot of us have been there but what's super-nice about the character is that she's never showing the audience a downward spiral into despair. The mood is always picked straight back up with short and sharp doses of humour that she will quickly have to deal with. The best example being when she's hired to be a spy (supposedly she can ACT like a spy because she's an actress?)
When I started watching, I didn't think of this film as a comedy, it just feels like something that unravelled itself and became one. Always a good thing in my book! I'm not one for genres. I just like how this film bounces from one situation to another with Warren's character at the helm, navigating though a series of strange situations until she does the best thing the any person can do, find herself.
M.L.E is like a collage of colourful, cheap-thrill, adolescent nostalgia with some glorious city-scapes and creepy-but-funny puppets thrown in for good measure! After the closing credits, I think I'll always enjoy eating vegetables!
Sarah Warren plays jobbing actress, Julia Robert (poor girl!) whose slowly running out of money, trying to get by in the big city, doing what she has to do. A lot of us have been there but what's super-nice about the character is that she's never showing the audience a downward spiral into despair. The mood is always picked straight back up with short and sharp doses of humour that she will quickly have to deal with. The best example being when she's hired to be a spy (supposedly she can ACT like a spy because she's an actress?)
When I started watching, I didn't think of this film as a comedy, it just feels like something that unravelled itself and became one. Always a good thing in my book! I'm not one for genres. I just like how this film bounces from one situation to another with Warren's character at the helm, navigating though a series of strange situations until she does the best thing the any person can do, find herself.
M.L.E is like a collage of colourful, cheap-thrill, adolescent nostalgia with some glorious city-scapes and creepy-but-funny puppets thrown in for good measure! After the closing credits, I think I'll always enjoy eating vegetables!