Live Action Anime

Wait… No, not that Metropolis, this Metropolis:

Yes, today’s review is of Rintaro’s visually amazing 2001 anime film Metropolis, adapted from the manga of the same name. It’s as prolific a production as anyone’s ever seen in anime, featuring Rintaro directing, Katsuhiro Otomo writing, adapted from a manga by Osamu Tezuka and endorsed by James Cameron. Can any film live up to the expectations that such names imbue it with. The Thrasher throws his take into the ring: