Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Critic Reviews
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Based upon 8 Critic ReviewsHighest Rated
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Demonstrates how exciting and vital contemporary animated filmmaking is in Japan. The characters may not move with the fluidity of their American counterparts, but the story unfolds with a sinister grace that any live-action director might envy.Read the full review
The atmospherics are wonderfully dark and film-noirish, if overly violent.Read the full review
If you want state of the art anime that comes within spitting distance of escaping the limits of its genre, this might be your cup of bootleg sake.Read the full review
Though it isn't the entirely original creation "Metropolis" was, Bebop is more satisfying.Read the full review
Notable chiefly for its eye-catching urban backgrounds and an eclectic score that ranges from jazz and country to classical and choral.Read the full review
Overlong, overplotted and underdrawn.Read the full review
When Bebop's anime characters stand still, chirping their strangely stilted, dubbed talk and not moving their strangely blank faces, I feel lost on Mars myself.Read the full review
The ambition is laudable, but the execution is wanting, and the attempt itself may indicate that Watanabe and company have forgotten what made Cowboy Bebop so much fun.Read the full review
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