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Description: Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy - Science Fiction / Theatrical Release: 2000 / Director: Michael M. Robin / Actors: ... more
Metropolis (DVD) ... Carolyn M. Doyle, Sarah Paulson ... / DVD released 22 July, 2002 at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, Animated, Box set, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / A stunning piece of Japanese animation, Metropolis (2001) gets much of its visual look as well as its storyline less from the Fritz Lang classic than from Osamu Tezuka's comic book adaptation of it. In a style a reminiscent of Little Nemo and TinTin, Lang's dystopian fantasy is tweaked into the story of the doomed robot girl Tima and her love for Kenichi, nephew of a visiting Japanese detective. The city's ruler, Duke Red, needs her to complete his super-weapon, the Ziggurat, and has built her to resemble his dead daughter; the Duke's adopted son Rock is jealous and possessive of his father; and Tima's builder Laughton has agendas of his own. There are chases, riots, conflagrations and duels in the snow; unusually for Japanese animation the backgrounds are as inventively characterised as the characters who move through them. Screenwriter Katsuhiro Otomo and director Rintaro have deservedly moved from cult status to the mainstream on the strength of this film, which merits the epic tag so often attached to less interesting animations. --Roz Kaveney

Newest Review: ... destroy themselves. It seems it’s up to this pleasant young man from above to save the city’s future! I’m no expert in ... more

 ... silent movies, since Metropolis is the only one I’ve ever seen, so please tell me if I’m wrong – surely they didn’t all used to be this slow? I’m not talking about the story being slow (which is it, incidentally), I mean the images themselves. Everything looks literally in slow motion. Captions a sentence long stay on the screen for 30 seconds. I got bored in places and played the video on fast forward, and it was overall a much more enjoyable experience, whilst also cutting down the film’s 147 minute running time. I wa...more

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Crowned Review Metropolis (DVD): The Original Man-Machine (986 words)
by - written on 19/07/07 (Very useful, 118 readings)
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Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is probably the oldest movie I’ve ever seen (it was made in 1927). Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I’m not going to use its age either for or against it. It’s just that they don’t make ‘em like this any more, and for good reason. It tells of a future city - Metropolis - which is split in two, Time Machine style, into the wealthy, intelligent people living above ground, and the workers living deep underground. One day, a man from above gets a visit from a mysterious woman, who inspires him to delve underground and see how his brothers live. On encountering their daily toil, labouring to keep vast machines running for the good ...  Read the complete review

hogsflesh
Crowned Review "Metropolis. The mother city. City of mothers. Mother of all ... (1393 words)
by - written on 25/05/06 (Very useful, 179 readings)
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Hardly anyone watches silent films anymore, which is a shame. Probably it's the obvious old-fashioned-ness that puts people off. Silent cinema appeals to me at least partly because it's so different to modern cinema, but I also love the sense of scale that you get in some of the films (it seems that building enormous sets that probably cost more than Belgium was not unusual), and also the way you can see film as a narrative medium developing. If silent films are frequently clumsy and unsubtle, later films refined their methods and became what we have today. Besides, I rather like clumsy and unsubtle. And Metropolis, made in 1927, is certainly clumsy and ...  Read the complete review

berlioz+II
Premium Review Metropolis (DVD): "Am I human?" (2277 words)
by - written on 07/11/05 (Very useful, 213 readings)
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Japanese Anime is a quite recent phenomenon in Finland that has been practically non-existent before the turn of the millenium. So far the biggest market for manga and anime outside of Japan has really only been the United States, although even there it has really been the pleasure of only a select few. Thankfully things have of late been improving considerably as the artform really is so much more rich than simply Pokemón and Dragonball Z. In my country there has been a steadily growing fascination in anime over tha last couple of years that is getting stronger by the year. There has already been a number of important releases on DVD of the likes of Akira, Ghost in the ...  Read the complete review

holdencaulfield
Premium Review The Rebirth of a Classic (2982 words)
by - written on 25/08/02 (Very useful, 967 readings)
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"Metropolis is the new milestone in Anime, a spectacular fusion of CG backgrounds with traditional character animation. It has beauty, power, mystery and above all...heart. Images from this film will stay with you forever. My congratulations to Rintaro-san for his masterpiece." It wasn't such a long time ago that I heard Metropolis was being released on DVD to buy, in fact the only reason I knew was because I was looking at all the soon to be released DVDs on play.com. At the time I had no idea what Metropolis was about and all I knew was it was an anime and I was a great anime fan so it was probably going to be great. I put off buying it ...  Read the complete review

Goldensummit
Premium Review Metropolis (DVD): Welcome to Metropolis (950 words)
by - written on 26/09/05 (Very useful, 110 readings)
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This is a review on yet another anime film, as I am doing an anime reviewing season, which is called Metropolis, which is set in the future where the mayor of Metropolis has created robots to do all the work around the city. Director Rintaro, which is not done many famous movies, but has certainly done a good job here. The film starts off with a Private Investigator and his nephew entering Metropolis after the some people talking about how handy the robots are, and the Private Investigator is there mainly because he got a very reliable tip that there was an evil scientist in the mists of Metropolis. Duke Red (this high and powerful person) has hired a ...  Read the complete review

 
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