Paprika (2007) Critic Reviews
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Fantasy leaks into reality.Read the full review
Kon's best work yet.Read the full review
A gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close.Read the full review
Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing Paprika might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home.Read the full review
A film so joyfully insane that it feels like Kon is overcompensating.Read the full review
Satoshi Kon, whose previous film was the remarkable "Tokyo Godfathers," uses the complex plot as a pretext for joyous psychedelia.Read the full review
It's not a film for children, and it's not even something children would like. It's challenging and disturbing and uncanny in the ways it captures the nature of dreams -- their odd logic, mutability and capacity to hint at deepest terrors.Read the full review
Fiercely provocative, Paprika shames Hollywood’s use of animation as a kiddie pacifier.Read the full review
One thing is for sure: The über-dream is both gorgeously animated, in Kon's shimmering, hyperreal style, and sickeningly scary.Read the full review
It's best appreciated by assuming something of a dream state ourselves and enjoying the giddy flow.Read the full review
