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... if there ever was an underrated piece of flash, this is it. I don't know how you did it, but you've managed to combine Miles Davis, a Godzila style movie, a drawing style similar to that of the nouvelle manga / Frédéric Boilet (although you might not even have heard of him or the movement) and a parody of anime into one great movie. It's a little scary, really, because combining so many diferent things like that takes the mind of genius or a madman. Allow me detail me review:
- Graphics were top notch. The overall nouvelle manga style you use (with rotoscoping?) looks great and is really interesting too, specially the way you clash slightly diferent styles for the backgrounds, characters and the monsters. The sparse but well used animation was pretty good, too. Overall, a great looking movie that's very original in its presentation style.
Also, great use of colours! By opting to colour the backgrounds, but not everything else, you create a interesting visual experience and nice contrast too. The character design of both monster is awesome, too, quite diferent from most.
- Music, well, it's freaking So What from Kind of Blue. I mean, what can I say about one jazz's greatest recordings of all time. And the strangest part, it fits the movie. It's bizarre to admit this, being the song that it is, but you've managed to make the theme song of a cuboid monster So What and it works. Yikes. Also, the 'ahhhh' scream you use is a stock one, right?
- The story was an obvious parody of anime and monster movies. The excessive and ridiculous number of chapters, many exactly the same as the previous, is obviously parodying the tendency of Shonen anime. The ridiculous large names of each chapter is referencing the tendency of animes in english to have huge names too, since they have to translate japanese concepts that are written (in japanese) in a few words, but have no equivalent in english, I'm guessing.
The fact that the cuboid jazz monster is villain in the past (and remains so, to a certain extent, as he's eating human beings!) and is the anti-hero in this movie is probably parodying the fact that Godzilla underwent the same process of villain turned hero, right?
Also, nice pacing to the movie, you build up to the climax well. It's also neither too short, nor too long. And the (short) action scene is grotesque, funny and bizzare, and still fits in, despite the mix-match you've created.
So, overall, a great movie, that mixes up so many diferent things and still works, with a excellent visual style, amazing soundtrack (of course) and lot's of clever references.
Cheers and kudos for such a great movie, it's a shame that (to the time of this review), it has only 2,400 views, it really deserves much more! I hope that you create more movies in the future, you're obviously a talented and creative artist.