This is VERY appealing visually!
Which is good to garner attention and make you sit down and give it a chance, which is its biggest hurdle.
It is well animated and energetic characters with decent designs and defined personalities (most of them), a mix of a Techno-Knight society and wonderful action. The movie is also a bit unexpected and quite different (which is a pro and a con, but enough to be interesting) and VERY fast paced.
Still, I found that the lack of subtlety at times hurts it. The script's simplicity doesn't allow for such topics to be brushed aside, as the developments want.. Thankfully, part of the message they wanted to cover only takes a few minutes of your time and is not really intrusive or heavy handed, it's just in there in a way it might make some groan. The rest of the core lacks weight. Ore importantly, I do think the film in general is desperately in need of more depth. Be it character and their arcs, world-building, threats and tension, objectives and much more.. as if a layer of "something" cohesive was missing. Like it is afraid to linger on something specific.. or if it would have been better as a series instead? But I can't see that working from the story shown.
I'm still quite pleased with the overall quality of the projects. Hopefully, the scripts will one day match. Would recommend it, just because the animation is right up my alley!
Wonder if the comic it adapted has "more". Though, again, after seeing what this had to offer and the fact that it's appeal is mostly due to the animation.. the comic's style and medium doesn't really catch my eye to give it a chance. A one and done sort of entry.
Which is good to garner attention and make you sit down and give it a chance, which is its biggest hurdle.
It is well animated and energetic characters with decent designs and defined personalities (most of them), a mix of a Techno-Knight society and wonderful action. The movie is also a bit unexpected and quite different (which is a pro and a con, but enough to be interesting) and VERY fast paced.
Still, I found that the lack of subtlety at times hurts it. The script's simplicity doesn't allow for such topics to be brushed aside, as the developments want.. Thankfully, part of the message they wanted to cover only takes a few minutes of your time and is not really intrusive or heavy handed, it's just in there in a way it might make some groan. The rest of the core lacks weight. Ore importantly, I do think the film in general is desperately in need of more depth. Be it character and their arcs, world-building, threats and tension, objectives and much more.. as if a layer of "something" cohesive was missing. Like it is afraid to linger on something specific.. or if it would have been better as a series instead? But I can't see that working from the story shown.
I'm still quite pleased with the overall quality of the projects. Hopefully, the scripts will one day match. Would recommend it, just because the animation is right up my alley!
Wonder if the comic it adapted has "more". Though, again, after seeing what this had to offer and the fact that it's appeal is mostly due to the animation.. the comic's style and medium doesn't really catch my eye to give it a chance. A one and done sort of entry.