December 22, 2008.

DRM PROTECTED DISC - ABSOLUTELY AVOID THIS.

Rating: 1
This is a wonderful, wonderful movie. I really hate to give it one star, so to be clear, the one star is to draw attention to the fact that Sony has TOTALLY RUINED this disc. This is a copy-protected DVD and will only play in standard DVD players.

I have tried to play this with a number of DVD programs in Windows and it fails every time. This was confusing to me until I looked at the back of the DVD case and saw the little Sony copy protection logo. Makes sense now. It's truly, truly baffling why Sony does this to legitimate, paid for DVD's. I have a hard time convincing myself not to buy bootleg DVD's that work better, everywhere, at a third of the price.

I have since figured out how to play this movie on my computer and the irony of it will keep me entertained well into my sunset years.


Good job, Sony. Last movie I ever buy from you guys.

December 28, 2008.

Fantastic drawings yet shallow plot.

Rating: 4
You must be a big fan of cartoon with high details if come up to love this one.

The plot is extremely empty and even childish, about 2 adolescent boys, orphans I think, who sleep in the street and make a living from theft. Yet they think they are protectors of the city and the elder one is particularly good in martial art, and both boys can jump up high buildings with bare foot. It's like listening to the story of a kid that makes you laugh.

Yet the artwork is astounding to the effect that I just forget about the characters or what their are doing and focus to appreciate the surrounding artwork, like you enterd an art gallery, you would not mind whether the doorkeeper is decent in look but care about the paintings only. The artwork just make that from Disney or Pixar look pale and poor in details.

One drawback is that all characters are drawn roughly, including the two boys, like blackspots on a perflect painting.

Bravo for who brought us the fantastic artwork!

December 31, 2008.

Thank You.

Rating: 5
I seriously appreciate that this was processed and sent on time. And the product itself is wonderful!

December 06, 2008.

Pretty great single disc~.

Rating: 4
I gotta say, for a single disc release, it's got loads of useful and interesting information for those interested in animation.

The 300-day Diary with director Michael Arias was the most interesting of the features, in my opinion. His road to completing this film was such a bumpy one, that one can only appreciate it even more. His struggle with some of the animation sequences, and solutions... my only wish was to have dedicated a short period of time on how they went about the work with the voice actors, which I thought was great.

There's also a small sneak peek at how Plaid worked on the music for the film.

Also appreciated, the various tracks of subtitles and audio tracks!

December 30, 2008.

Amazing images, so-so plot.

Rating: 3
Even though I loved this director first American feature in the Animatrix I have to say I was rather dissapointed with the overall feeling of this movie. Great scenarios and control of the camera but sometimes the overall sluggish look of the characters got annoying. Also, even though this is an anime the movie was moving utterly slow.