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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- No discussion thread? I mean, I know the movie is over two decades old but still, I mean I guess I only watched it because I'm trying to complete a lot of anime this month & Crunchyroll had it but still, this is an important enough franchise that I kinda feel obligated to create this. To be honest, I went in with pretty low expectations but I was pleasantly surprised by how frequently I found myself smiling during the movie, and a lot of that goes down to the animation, there's so much motion here and combined with the art style, especially the cute little cubs of Lune & Lukio, I found myself enjoying my time a lot in the first half solely on that. Even when there wasn't cute animals, there was Ham-Egg who just has a funny design to match his funny name. The action was generally really well-animated too, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by the high quality displayed here but I really did not expect to enjoy the aesthetics so much. They're my favorite part of the film, just the natural moving expression of yesterday with a good amount of on-model vibrancy to the movement that still holds up today, I think. I do think the beginning sequence with Leo running contained some poor CGI but that aside I have no complaints with the visuals . . . Well kinda. Lemonade's death had it's issue, namely the performance of Dr. Mustache didn't match the visual cues. It sounded like the seiyuu was crying his eyes out but there were no traces of tears on the characters face, really took me out of the moment. I also think the seiyuu for Leo could've performed his like about having to lose Lukio too a little more emotionally involved, but aside from that the sub track is as good as you'd expect. The OST was surprisingly sparse at points, only one tracks, not counting the ED, is even slightly memorable. It's basically background noise. Which is fine because at least it isn't distractedly bad but it's barely even worth mentioning. In terms of the actual plot content, there's some structural issues I have with this movie, mostly the decision to swap main characters halfway through. So much of the first half of the film is dedicated to Lune that I seriously questioned why the film was titled after Leo when for such a long time he was kinda a non-factor. When Lune escaped from the Circus, it took awhile before I realized he wouldn't show up til the end, and while I appreciate that the movie wasn't nearly as predictably as I expected, it did make the movie feel really disjointed to me. I still enjoyed both halves but this was definitely a problem for me, especially since it didn't really tie well in the ending. I thought it was going to when Lune and Dr. Mustache met up but instead the conclusion was rather abrupt and we didn't really need all that time developing Lune for it to work. From what I've read, this movie adapts the second half of the manga, where the first half was Leo's childhood. Meaning that in the manga, Lune's development was probably meant to parallel his father's journey so if the manga features the same conclusion it'd have more impact since we know how it correlates to Leo but that's not the case in the movie itself so it just left me unsatisfied. The individual halves were fine though, I enjoyed both well-enough as a fine family film. A lot more death than I expected and Ham-Egg's side of things was really entertaining. I also really liked the decision to only have the animal speak Japanese when humans weren't present within ear-shot, it was a good reminder of the language barrier between the two and made Leo's sacrifice more impactful when he finally does speak to Dr. Mustache. The words wouldn't have had as much gravitas if they could speak earlier and works as an effective way to symbolize the melding of worlds. The whole befriend & work together with humans idea that Lune had earlier. How the animals should respond to humans (and thus just humans in general) was the strongest theme throughout the work, and while I've seen this theme explored in much greater detail but for a more simplistic kid-orientated film, the did well in adding enough detail in it and it never got to be overbearing with it's message, they just stuck the landing by having Leo finally talk to Dr. Mustache. |
| I guess this inspired me to get the series, because it was funny and heartwarming. The only sin is that it didn't finish well, but who cares anyway. 7/10 |
How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb --- Dr Strangelove  |
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