It is poorly shot and afflicted by tedious sound (lots of screaming and saccharine music) and inept special effects. It moves with either incomprehensible abruptness or tedious slowness, especially at supposedly suspenseful moments.
Jellyfish Eyes(めめめのくらげ)
Japan · 2013
1h 41m
Director Takashi Murakami
Starring Himeka Asami, Masataka Kubota, Asuka Kurosawa, Takumi Saitoh
Genre Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
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In present-day Japan, little Masashi moves from an evacuation center to a small village. There he will discover that every child has the ability to communicate with a fantastic creature, but they are being used in an evil plan to collect the children’s negative energy. Artist Takashi Murakami ‘s debut film is an amazing epic story that is an X-Ray of children’s hopes and fears with the artist’s unmistakable visual style.
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What are critics saying?
Takashi Murakami has invested the film with the same sort of primal pop-art aesthetic that distinguishes much of his art.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Art fans might reasonably expect one of the world's most successful painters to display a distinctive or at least appealing visual sense here, but they will be disappointed by Yasutaka Nagano's pedestrian photography; the film fares even worse in terms of storytelling and pacing.
By second-guessing what audiences want, Murakami falls into the same trap studios do when trying to appease mass tastes, delivering a film that features many of his familiar designs and characters but precious little in the way of personal vision.
Jellyfish Eyes may be blessedly unpretentious, but it's also immediately unmoving and relentlessly boring.
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