Michael's Movie Grade: B
A true visual feast.
This anime film starts with a young girl, who dies with many others due to an unleashing of killer alien plants. She then wakes up and is forced to live the same day again in a Groundhogs Day type of situation.
First off, this movie is a true visual spectacle in the best sense of the word. Mixing hand drawn and computer animation, this film has a truly unique and exciting look. The designs of the characters and the world are full of pure creativity. The action scenes are some of the most incredible looking I have ever seen in an animated movie.
These action scenes are also very exciting. They are incredibly well paced and constantly build up to something bigger with each one, which keeps them for becoming as repetitive as they might with such a storyline.
The storyline may borrow from films we have seen before, but it offers some very clever and creative twists on these ideas, making them feel new and fresh.
The problem with this movie though is with its fast pace and short runtime, the characters (while likable) are too simplistic. We simply never get to know anything beyond surface level about them.
Despite some flaws in characterization, this is a fun, exciting and fresh movie.
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