a.k.a Wonderful Days
**/****
screenplay by Kim Moon-saeng & Park Sun-min & Park Yong-jun
directed by Kim Moon-saeng & Park Sun-min
by Walter Chaw Pretty much
your standard anime post-apocalyptic master plot, what distinguishes
Kim Moon-saeng and Park Sun-min's Korean contribution Sky Blue
is the oppressive weight of its visual accomplishment. Blending the
character animations of, say, a Satoshi Kon with the environmental
concerns of an early Miyazaki, the movie is beautiful. But at the same
time, it slathers on such a thick layer of obfuscating dialogue and
glowering plot complications that it's hard to muster up much
enthusiasm beyond the initial "wow" factor. Still, that "wow" factor: I
don't know that I've ever seen a better blend of CGI and traditional
cel animation--in terms of how it looks, Sky Blue
even trumps last year's astonishing Ghost in the Shell 2:
Innocence. A shame that a person can only really be dazzled
for a few minutes before becoming something closer to "stunned."
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