Dave Mallow, Jamieson Price, Robert Axelrod
Metropolis is a story of how important emotions are and how they separate humans from everything else. The movie follows a young boy and his uncle (a private investigator). The story is set in the far...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 23, 2002
Stats: 872 reviews
political thriller and sci-fi all in one. started off a little slow and ended a bit cheesy, but all so imaginative on a grand scale. usually i find animation none too compelling yet found myself rooting for kenichi. it may not be saying much when i say this is the best animated j...( read more)
herd it was boring, and im gald it wasn't
i liked it... could have had a easier ending though.
Very interesting, and artful japanese animation. Very high attention to details. Is great fun, yet could be a little long winded for the younger crowd. Lots of explosion and fights.
A masterpiece of unbelievable beauty... hard to watch because it's not Anime, or sci-fi, or drama, or action, or CGI animation, or comedy, or musical, or French-art-house-film, or Documentary, or... ANYTHING!! It's actually EVERYTHING. Ray Charles and Osamu Tezuka were meant to b...( read more)
I didn't expect much of it before I saw it, but once I saw it - it blew me away! This one of the most interesting animation films I have ever seen. It's a sci-fi and a thriller. It's got a lot to do with politics and the future of the world.
The story is great, it's like noth...( read more)
Amazing story as with most anime. but visually this is also one of the most stunning ever created.
This film is pretty cool for a modern animated film regarding a dystopian, futuristic society. It certainly was greatly inspired by the mother of sci-fi films, Metropolis, by Fritz lang. The characters were OK and the plot, although good, could've been much more cool. The message...( read more)
A whole lot of really nice design work and musical scoring helped this lift itself from semi-traditional anime fair. Why does every anime film involve people falling in love just because, robots, magical power. I dont know. It was alright. I did fall asleep 3 times while trying t...( read more)
hermosa. cada cuadro. cada escenografía. esto es cine de arte. metropolis crea una tradición de perfección animada.
The urban landscapes are detailed down to the signs on the kiosks, and the color palette, with lots of somber blues and pinks, is dreamy and evocative. full review
One of the best animated films I have ever seen. full review
A hallucinatory tour de force of color, perspective and scale, virtually encapsulates the history of Japanese animation. full review
Why is it that anime and robots just seem to go together? Its like weirdness ontop of strangeness. Films like this tend to do 1 of 2 things that is expand the imagination or confuse and annoy. This could have been easily picked up by Disney and produced to cater towards a more western or european audience and perhaps had greater financial success but would have been less of a cutting edge and unique film. It takes a deep fanbase to be able to truely appreciate a film like this. Still if your an animation guru you owe it to yourself to take a closer look.
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