![]() ![]() I felt a certain respect for them that wasn't apparent in "Redline." In "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" the characters existed in a world that could be real by moving us just a small tweak from the center, the attention to detail adding instead of detracting from the viewer's experience. The female characters in "Perfect Blue," "Paprika," "Summer Wars" and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" were earnest and nuanced. ![]() Any one of those movies would be a better use of your time. More recently, Madhouse won awards from the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature for director Mamoru Hosoda's " Summer Wars" (2009) and the " The Girl who Leapt Through Time" (2006). ![]() The same studio produced " Paprika" (2006), " Perfect Blue" (1997) and " Tokyo Godfathers" (2003) by the late director Satoshi Kon. The animation itself is high-quality 2D, but you'd expect that from Madhouse, Inc. Some of those minor character detail segments are interesting but should have been edited out or saved as a special extra on the DVD/Blu-Ray. There might have been one writer too many "Redline" seems to have too many ideas and no clear vision. In the case of "Redline," the story was attributed to Katsuhito Ishii, and Ishii, Yoji Enokido and Yoshiki Sakurai are credited with the screenplay. Americans might be more familiar with his " World Record" segment (written by Yoshiaki Kawajiri) in the 2003 direct-to-video anthology movie, " The Animatrix." "World Record" was a more thoughtful short film. The 2010 "Redline" is Koike's first feature film, winner of the Audience Award for Best Animated Film at the 2011 Fantasia Festival in Montreal. You also might be able to forgive all those plot holes you could easily drive a classic muscle car through. Coyote and Roadrunner), it might have made more sense and been more fun. If it had taken a wacky Looney Tunes approach to humor (think anime Wile E. Although the Redline race itself is a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred affair, the movie heads for an exceptionally mushy finish line. The world of "Redline" is filled with detailed characters, aliens and humans, inhabiting a weary world where our hero miraculously escapes death while aiding Sonoshee. JP and his friend Frisbee ( Tadanobu Asano) have a shady past that included fixing races. But while Funky Boy does create havoc, it's really the mob bosses JP needs to worry about. At this point, you almost want the movie to turn into an espionage caper or a comedy. The cyborgs who run Roboworld aren't happy with this questionable honor: they have weapons of mass destruction including a secret bioweapon called Funky Boy. While recuperating in the hospital, JP learns he has qualified for Redline when the saner underground drivers have dropped out after the location of the underground race has been revealed: the militaristic Roboworld. The lovely green-haired Sonoshee ( Yu Aoi) takes that honor instead. Sweet JP just misses winning the underground Yellowline race that would qualify him for Redline. Our anti-hero, Sweet JP (voiced by Takuya Kimura), has a hair-ific sculpture-do that's King Creole pompadour meets modern mohawk. Yes, this is anime is made for your heterosexual male, especially if you have young Elvis fantasies. What really makes this adult is the detailed full-frontal female nudity and an is-she-or-isn't-she? " Basic Instinct" moment. There are plenty of worm's-eye-view shots that aren't upskirt, but low angles give us bun shots for both the men and the women. Most of the female characters haven't heard the mantra "lift and separate," so their "girls" keep the beat-boom, boom, boom, boom-with their movements. This anime is an oinky male chauvinistic mess in which women are served up as choice eye candy. Not adult as in hentai (link NSFW) where sexual situations are depicted in graphic detail with sometimes startlingly strange inventions and contortions that could only happen in animation or CGI, but we're talking anime for mature audiences. ![]()
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