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Innocence revisits imagery from the first film. But this time computer animation pumps everything up to epic proportions. The results are overwhelming.
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100You can call me fanboy, but this is the best anime I've ever seen.
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90Innocenc doesn't just reveal a wealth of visual enchantments; it restates the case that there can and should be more to feature-length animations than cheap jokes, bathos and pandering.
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That rare sequel that surpasses the original.
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88The love and attention Oshii poured into animating Batou's pet basset hound proves that the human instinct dominates even in a movie dependent on technology.
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88The imagery is uniquely that of Oshii, who deserves a place in the pantheon of visual artists.
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83The title Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is a brain banger. But as sci-fi nomenclature goes, it's easy to read--no twistier, certainly, than "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow."
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83The impressive marriage of CGI backgrounds and traditional hand-drawn characters gives Oshii more tools to sculpt his vision in color and light.
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The dark sequel offers gorgeous images, with an updated and stylish design, but its characters' angst gets in the way of storytelling.
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78Innocence is possessed of a highly literate, almost classical story.
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75Like "Blade Runner," it's dense enough to be rewarding on multiple viewings, the hallmark of a classic.
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75Some advice: Don't even bother trying to figure out what's going on in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence -- just sit back and enjoy the lush, trippy visuals.
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Has plenty to satisfy fans and bring in new admirers.
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75Brims with forboding, but it pulses with candy colors and the hum of neon signs.
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70Less a sequel than a variation on a haunting theme -- the nature and origins of humanity.
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60The visuals are an animation student's wet dream, the dialogue an English student's nightmare - but for Japanimation fans it's a big-screen must-see.
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60It points out what's missing in his (Oshii) approach: fluidity of character line, the subtlety of expression that brought humanity to a Warner Bros. cartoon duck or rabbit.
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50A downbeat story line layered with philosophical discourses will restrict the audience to fans of the animated genre.
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50Ingeniously crafted with flashes of intelligence, if not very memorable.
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50The effect of so much pretension and so many lovely images eventually becomes soporific.
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50Unfortunately, the outcome here is so over-the-top that it’s going to wind up alienating most everyone that sees it.
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50There's a lot of imagination at work here; too bad just a little bit of it couldn't have been channeled into the creation of a better narrative.
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40This sophomoric stuff is pure self-indulgence, a drone to accompany the admittedly eye-popping sound-and-light show. Oshii looks like yet another director who has gone off the deep end, believing too absolutely his own good reviews.
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40At times, Innocence feels like a clip show of Oshii projects past. But the effect proves more dulling than warmly familiar.
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40Talky, repetitive and largely covering the same ground with no new thoughts, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence is a major let-down.
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30Ghost suffers most from a distinct lack of anything, well, cinematic.