Genius Party
a review by Terajima
a review by Terajima
A kind of metaphor without dialogues about the creators and the public. Good start, very good animation, colorful, original and a good sound accompaniment. 6/10· 'Shanghai Dragon' - Shoji Kawamori:
Fifty years ago some Chinese children discover a strange sword in the schoolyard, one of them picks it up and it lights up. If the thing started well with the first short this second one breaks that feeling. Neither the animation, nor the story or anything is special, and not only that, it also tells something very typical in the world of manga and anime, with that nerdy tone that unfortunately is present in so many things in this industry. 2/10· 'Deathtic 4' - Shinji Kimura:
Zombie police punish anyone who has a living being and we focus in a zombie child who has a living frog. One afternoon he meets some friends to throw the frog to a hurricane that connects the world of the dead with that of the living.
Very funny, it has a striking animation and a great atmosphere, with touches of Tim Burton's works, and series as 'Courage the Cowardly Dog'. 6/10· 'Door Chime' - Yoji Fukuyama:
A boy sees how a clone of his is ahead of everything he wants to do, so that others do not notice his presence.
Regular animation without too much charm and somewhat rigid. The story is fine, but mangas like 'Gantz' play it with a lot more depth. 4/10· 'Limit Cycle' - Hideki Futamura:
A series of fascinating images accompanied by a discourse about God, humans and others. The background is too pretentious, it wants to be deep but it is rather senseless, bombastic phrases one after the other that globally mean nothing. Still it is a good experience, especially for its visual section. 6/10· 'Happy Machine' - Masaaki Yuasa:
A child is connected to a machine that makes him dream and live adventures in strange places. Previously I had already seen the feature film 'Mind Game', by this same director. I thought that I would like this short film because of the good impression that that movie gave to me, but it was not at that level, I was left quite cold. 5/10· 'Baby Blue' - Shinichiro Watanabe:
A boy goes with a friend to the beach instead of going to class.
The shortfilm with better atmosphere and more suggestive. The bad, that unfortunately as usually happens with anime it shows the world and things from a point of view pretty gullible and ridiculous. If it were not for that, this one would have been the best of all. 5/1016.5 out of 24 users liked this review
