Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

LoyaltyDesu I enjoyed all the eye-candy artwork and amazing camera angles! The bond between the two, Kuro & Shiro, is very heartwarming... The action is quite good and it was worth the watch...

jephiachantharath This movie was introduced to me when I saw Paprika a while back,it was one of the previews before the movie. I thought it looked imaginative and interesting, but when I watched it I was somewhat disappointed. I still find it enjoyable, but it's completely different from what I thought it was about. So apparently it's about these two orphans named Black and White, who make up a gang called the cats who run the city of treasure island. With that I thought it was unconvincing that just two kids could be so dangerous, but when we get into the jumping scenes it's not all completely unbelievable, and it happens right away so that's good. Another thing to note is the animation style, it's definitely different from most anime's I've seen, luckily it's not the detriment to the film in anyway, and if anything it adds to it. The themes that this movie tries to convey is what irritates me, for them being so bluntly obvious. The characters names: Black and white, seriously? Your going to the basics of thematic righting? Black being the absence of emotions the chaos if you will, and white the purity the innocence. Even later when Black has a yin-yang on his shirt, they couldn't have made it so blatantly obvious what they're trying to say: that one can't exist without the other. I guess this wouldn't be as bad if I felt for these kids, but they're aren't that interesting. I mean white acts like a special child; which suppose to mean he sees good within the rubble, and Black is so depressing and pathetic. There are moments where I do like them, for instances when they play around and fight those other kids in the beginning of the film, they looked happy and I felt that. The supporting cast is not all that great either, there's a yakuza member who has no real point to having a story arc; although the scene with his boss is really good, which by the way the mob boss is one of the few characters I liked. The cops: pointless, the old man: why? That purple guy named snake: well he was essentially to the plot and his minions were cool in action. Finally the scene with the demon black is really pretentious, I mean it an evil inside him; hasn't that become a cliché long before this movie? Talking to Black about how he'd be so much better without white, and I already know how's this is going to end so it's watch watching at this point, and then it finally ends somehow with the two at the beach like White always wanted. So overall, this is an average anime film, but a not so great film in general. Please note I wanted to like this film; and I do to an extent, but the overall obvious thematic elements and lack of interesting characters makes this not anything special.

aFrenchparadox I absolutely loved the aesthetics, it's as rich as looking at some Bruegel the Elder's paints. In fact it's even so rich it would need a life watching it to see everything. And it's sometimes so realistic you wonder if they used inlaying of photos. As for the story I was about to say it is a bit too Manichean to my taste but in fact I am a bit harsh here. As highlighted a friend, some characters are not. It's just that one of the two principal characters is shifting from his dark side to a better one, without giving you the feeling the reality is more complex than this. And above all this kind of story where the hero is fighting himself to become better has something of religiously moral annoying me. Though here he managed to do it thanks to brotherhood, which is a nice reminder that the self and ethics are both something highly socially constructed.

eferoth Well, well, a a refreshing piece of animation. Up until now I've enjoyed everything coming out of Studio 4C I've seen, and thats a lot. Starting with the well aged Memories, over Arete up to Mind Game (Now that was a genius movie.) Also of course their shorter works (Genius Party and Matrix' Beyond).They always deliver Stories (granted, not necessarily written by them) that are simply original, animations that are top-notch and an overall styling of their movies that blows my mind every single time. (Do watch the Genius party episode called Dimension Bomb and you will know exactly what I mean.)To not turn this into a glorification of a studio, let me say, that Tekkonkinkreet has all the above.The animation and setting are simply gorgeous. Treasure city is so full of details in every single shot, over the top, over stylized, but still believable. See to believe. best example for me would be the home of Black and White. The sun setting on the car just at noon, the props strewn all around just speaking: "I'm a messed up boys tree-house, but a car, under a bridge and also beautiful."3D elements are also nice to behold. I think GitS: Innocence did it this way first. This way meaning actually painting the texture on the models (and I mean painting). This just integrates everything so much better into the rest of the picture, that you stop to notice it. This works especially well in the action pieces. Under bridges, over rooftops, on the train.The only smudge on this glorious movie is the overall story. While original, entertaining and interesting throughout, there are some parts in which its lacking. The minotaur, while always hinted at, DID sort of come out of nowhere at the end. You do see it coming somehow, but I didn't expect the movie to turn that metaphysical all of a sudden. Another hole is the character Snake. His motivation or the origins of his organization never become very clear. The whole Yakuza plot, linking all of the fragments also doesn't lead anywhere really. Well it does, but I expected a little more then a headshot. Its like the whole point of the movie is just to give a cross section of the town and its inhabitants. While this is nice to watch, the movie itself seemed to build up to a grand finale, which didn't really happen. More like two and a half separate main story lines (there are also a lot of sub-plots) that just happen to overlap a few times and end on their own. I can't quite put my finger on it why this rubs me the wrong way but it does. On the other hand, maybe thats just me.Still, to finally come to an end, I can only recommend this movie to anyone interested in something you don't see every day. Be it animation, story or movie-watching in general. Well worth your time.