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The film has enough originality to interest demanding fans of the genre.
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60Craft connoisseurs won't be disappointed with the splendidly executed result. However, everyone else is likely to wonder what the fuss about given the plot's dated cyborgs-and-supercomputers hijinks.
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50Whatever is lost in translation can't keep Appleseed from feeling a decade late--and its animation from looking like a relic on arrival.
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50Only real fans, however, will be willing to slog through the heaping helpings of incomprehensible exposition.
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50The characters are (hand-painted) so flat that the film looks like a paper-doll convention at Epcot.
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50The film's lingering exploration of their sleek surfaces verges on roboporn.
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50At this point, there's something almost masochistic about the way animators in Japan use cheesy ''Westernized'' heroes to fuel their fantasies.
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50While there are some genuinely dazzling moments of visual bravura, the marriage of flatness and depth that Mr. Aramaki attempts doesn't quite work.
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50The stock characters and leaden stretches of expository dialogue are welcome evidence that there's still no computer program capable of telling a decent story.
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40The characters might physically appear rounded, but are otherwise paper-thin.
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40The film's snazzy new automated animation style falls short: The supposedly human face of our metal-plated robocop's partner -- the inevitable curvy female in a leather jump suit -- is an inexpressive, glossy doll mask, untouched by human hands.
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40Its busy, stiff, artificial graphics are a perfect match for its busy, stiff, artificial plot. A simple Shirow pinup parade might almost be preferable.
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40Much of the movie is dull, and as it has been dubbed into English, the blah-blah is impossible to ignore.
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40Dazzling visually but is flattened by corny dialogue better suited to the 1936 "Flash Gordon" serial, a needlessly hard to follow plot and heavy-handed exposition clotted with pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
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38Lackluster anime.
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25The visuals are really the only compelling reason to see Appleseed.
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Held back by a story and script that is often silly and confusing.
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Sam2With the exception of Princess Mononoke, I truly despise anime, and Applessed enlarges my grudge against the ridiculous form of art even more.
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