Proving once again that animation is no longer a medium for telling stories just for children, Metropolis covers similar territory as the Fritz Lang classic, but is it's own film. Filled with a 1930's retro/future style but with a distinctly modern sensibility, the combination of both cell shading and computer generated animation techniques gives the movie a very unique ambiance.
The city that is at the core of Metropolis is a sprawling mass of commerce and industry that hides it's unstable politics behind massive construction projects and restricts it's malcontents and dissidents to lawless lower levels connected only tenuously with the light filled word above. This is the setting for our protagonists, who enter the stories as investigators tracking a fugitive, but are soon thrown in with murderers, robots, and revolutionaries.
Metropolis pleases on several levels. The animation is beautiful and the story is a compelling meditation on the nature of self and mankind's inherent propensity for violence. And if all that doesn't sound like that much fun, a WHOLE LOT of stuff gets blown up. Enjoy.
The city that is at the core of Metropolis is a sprawling mass of commerce and industry that hides it's unstable politics behind massive construction projects and restricts it's malcontents and dissidents to lawless lower levels connected only tenuously with the light filled word above. This is the setting for our protagonists, who enter the stories as investigators tracking a fugitive, but are soon thrown in with murderers, robots, and revolutionaries.
Metropolis pleases on several levels. The animation is beautiful and the story is a compelling meditation on the nature of self and mankind's inherent propensity for violence. And if all that doesn't sound like that much fun, a WHOLE LOT of stuff gets blown up. Enjoy.