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Directed by Rintaro - Starring Keiji Kobayashi, Yuka Imoto, Kouki Okada Columbia TriStar - Rated PG13 - 108 min - Anime - Region: 1 (USA & territories, Canada)
The gulf between backdrop and foreground never seems so large as in
Metropolis. Imagine a comic strip that features the characters from
Family Circus dropped into the bleak urbanscapes of Julius Knipl, Real
Estate Photographer, and you have some idea of what this film looks
like. Even the villains in Metropolis don't come off as particularly
menacing-looking; Duke Red, the builder of the Tower of Babel-like
Ziggurat, is just a little less cuddly than the good guy detective and
his nephew. Boldly titling your work (as source comic artist Osamu
Tezuka did) after an iconic film is asking for trouble. While the
rendering of this metropolis is in many ways, thanks to 70 years of
cinematic technology, even more jaw-dropping than that in Fritz Lang's
original, the characters, especially that of the robot Tima, can't be
taken as seriously as Maria (both the real one and the "false" one) and
Professor Rottwang. The filmmakers try very hard to dramatize the aching
love that Ken-Ichi, the nephew of the detective, feels for Tima, but
ultimately, their relationship comes off as something out of a bad early
John Hughes movie. Nevertheless, Metropolis has to be seen, because
director Rintaro and his production team have crafted a visual
masterpiece not without its moments of wit, though the use of Ray
Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You" seems more than a little jarring, if
not totally obvious. ~ Tom Wiener, Rovi http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/metropolis/dvd