Toronto. Vexille.

Vexille, "the latest by Japanese filmmaker Fumihiko Sori (Ping Pong) is cleanly-plotted and enjoyably accessible. Relatively speaking, anyway... Plus it has some of the most eye-popping animation this side of Miyazaki," writes Scott Weinberg at Cinematical.

"The animators had their fun, but the downtime between cool gadgets and loud chase sequences holds very little weight," writes Michael Lerman at indieWIRE.

"Vexille is gorgeous and stunning," writes Mack at Twitch. "Where Vexille, and ultimately Japan, is falling short is in the stories. We're still incorporating the same archetypes and plot devices we've seen in countless other animated films and series coming out of Japan."

"Haven't we all been on this mission before - and not only in anime?" asks Mark Schilling in the Japan Times. "This familiarity wouldn't matter so much if the film's execution was more imaginative, but the various plot tropes (two tough chicks put aside rivalry for a higher cause, etc) feel mechanical."

Posted by dwhudson at September 23, 2007 3:02 PM