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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- This film was the closing film of IFFR 2021 (International Film Festival Rotterdam) where I got to see it. It's a very energetic film that throws you right into the story and action with little context for its characters. After it's opening act things slow down a bit as we get to know more about the characters' relations and the world. This part actually is pretty convoluted with a lot of jumping around between characters as well as switching between present day and flashbacks. I felt the story could have been told a bit more simply at times. Things come together very well in the third act though and ends on a very strong note. The 3D CG animation is still a bit of hit&miss to me. Here it really adds to the world (almost a character on its own), but sometimes it can still look a bit jaggy, especially when it comes to character movement. Also, because things get so hectic I felt at times it might come across better on a small screen than a big screen because there's just so much imagery and motion to consume in every corner of the screen. Overall it's an entertaining film that gets a lot of things right but would probably have worked better with a bit more streamlining to tell the story in a simpler and more accessible way. I gave it a 7/10. |
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| Looks like Eleven Arts is gonna be showing this in theaters. In the US, at least. https://www.elevenarts.net/titles/poupelle-of-chimney-town |
Can I touch you? Please I love you. Let me touch you, I love you! Friend: How's school? Me: School gave me debt and my plant mold.  |
| I watched this last night. It's a very charming film and I love the artstyle! I've been wanting to write my own anime feature for a while now and this is giving me visual ideas |
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| A simple children adventure crossing ugly duckling and no borders trespassing stories, with every obligatory moment crammed in (the overexcited moments, the friendship moments, the song & dance, the kiddie jokes, etc). It starts overagitated but calms down in its second third and manages to get a bit emotional (enough for kids at the very least). Story-wise, it is also totally by the numbers in a decent way, so every turn of events was expected. The world is actually better than all the other stuff but is regurgitated in two or three scenes that tell everything. (It doesn't make fully sense but it's okay for what it is. The little children watching it seemed satisfied even though I doubt the younger ones got the stuff about money.) Rather pretty despite the awkward CGI movements for human figures (somewhat fitting for the creature) and several scenes far too reminiscent of a videogame. It would have been even prettier if purely drawn though (given the designs). Visually, it also feels overstuffed, an impression reinforced by the interesting designs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXKLNxefUrk Score: 6/10 Enjoyyment: 3/5 Easy to see that the guy behind this is a SFX director. I had to go to the french showing because of schedule conflicts and I was really not a fan of the Poupelle softy voice that seemed to insert many additional lines. |
Rei_IIIJan 16, 2022 5:58 AM
| Seen at the theater in France, it was a funny movie with lots of interesting visuals, the story is actually pretty classic about a town enclosed on itself The visuals of the town are quite beautiful and I think it's been well thought, just a little of regret we couldn't even see more of that town but it's understable Characters are funny, Scoop is a chill dude who talks a lot and Poupelle who came from nowhere and without much explanation is a good character About the 3D; I liked it, there was some moments where you could tell that the motion were a little weird but I think overall it did it's job This is the kind of movie that I would have liked to see in my childhood 8/10 |
Tuti_Aug 18, 2022 1:03 AM
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| Not going to lie, I almost immediately regretted my spur of the moment choice to watch this movie when the Halloween Party song started up. To be honest, a lot of the early movie was kind of hard to sit through. The opening sequence before Halloween is good, but the following stuff after that which plays out like an endless sequence of unfunny shenanigan's is pretty mind-numbing. After the escape thanks to Scoop the movie got a lot more enjoyable. Albeit, Scoop's introduction scene was perhaps the most painful of the film, I really did not like his character. He got one chuckle out of me when Lubicchi was like "that's not an exit that's a wall" and he was just like "just blow it up", but otherwise I found his gag of excessively talking to be rather annoying. The movie has it's other problems following the getting good bit. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about all the musical montages inserted throughout, the other songs were usually good, but I don't feel most have were necessary. I think the movie, especially towards the end, had a tendency to harp on the same points too much to the detriment of their effectiveness. I guess that's to be expected from a Children's movie, but it did hurt the climax of the movie which I otherwise would've felt pretty strongly about. And there are some things that never get proper resolution that sort of bother me. I would've liked seeing Mr. Dan after his near death experience, and I especially would've liked to see some proper conclusion to Suu's betrayal. We see briefly that he was defeated by those bats/flying-squirrel things but it's pretty underwhelming that his betrayal is never discovered by anyone he betrayed, and that his resolution is just a brief gag. The movie occasionally looks pretty ugly too but to be fair they definitely delivered where it counts. The reveal of the stars looked absolutely gorgeous, they knew what the money shot was and delivered on that. And I love the character design of Poupelle, the movie for the most part does look pretty good. Antonio's role was also cliché in the worst ways, albeit a lot of this movie is pretty cliché but I don't heralded it as big mistake. Lubicchi & Poupelle/Bruno's relationship isn't exactly unique in any way, but most of it is well-executed and effective, especially when Poupelle does remember and catches Lubicchi at the end. I found myself really liking there relationship. Chimney Town as a setting was pretty good too, and I found the origins surprisingly interesting. Don't think they needed to repeat that opening monologue describing Chimney Town as much as they did though, one of the things they harped on too much near the end. I'll also say, I'm surprised they didn't harp on the negative effects of the pollution too much, health-wise anyway. There's only one brief scene where Lubicchi claims his mother's illness is due to all the Chimney smoke. Just weird that it wasn't presented as another driving motivator compared to just seeing the stars. A bit mixed on what score to give it. For a good chunk I enjoyed this movie a 7, it's a fun story that hits most of the beats properly, but the beginning of the movie is pretty rough, and the end bumbles it a bit by repeating itself too much, so I think I'll give it a 6/10. |
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