Before I saw this movie I thought the darkest and most beautiful animal based animated movie ever, was the secret of nymph. honestly every challenging and dark subplot of that movie is done here, only better. there's animal cults, there's scientists playing god, there are also false profits, there's a fight scene with enough violence to make Clive barker blush, there's also side taking and backstabbing, sexuality, a beautifully mature who done it plot, and to top it off it's brutally violent in an artistic way.
SPOILER ALERT: when Frances first enters his revealing dream's the beauty of the animation is unmatched in artistic beauty, the dark faceless scientist that merges into reality out of the shadows is one of the finniest thing's I've ever seen animated, the pixar Disney animation of domination has no heart compared to this stuff, the other one of the finniest things I've ever seen animated, surprisingly comes later in this same movie, in Frances second revealing vision, he sees a false profit talk of the amazing improvement's to hibernation and genetics while this massive dark master gets crosses with strings attached to the damned cat's that have been mutilated, this is the darkest most beautiful thing I've ever seen, I'm an avid fan of a comic called JACK, and that's the closest thing to this kind of artistic violence.
SPOILER ALERT 2: The story flows to it's conclusion which has a fight seen, if this fight seen with fire surrounding to melodramatic cat's fighting to the death is accurate to the 1989 book, then Disney has clearly riped this ending off in the lion king(still a good movie). This seen flows with a great brutal battle with an finality that is both emotional and ultra violent, in fact this whole movie, feels like a mix between the emotional beauty of Don Bluth, with the artistic violence of Clive Barker. I saw the dubbed English version, which i was expecting to be horrid, but most of the voices fit, and gave heart in their acting. which is what really counts. seriously if your a fan of any of these three Clive Barker, Don Blouth, or David Hopkins, then you owe it to your self to see this movie.
SPOILER ALERT: when Frances first enters his revealing dream's the beauty of the animation is unmatched in artistic beauty, the dark faceless scientist that merges into reality out of the shadows is one of the finniest thing's I've ever seen animated, the pixar Disney animation of domination has no heart compared to this stuff, the other one of the finniest things I've ever seen animated, surprisingly comes later in this same movie, in Frances second revealing vision, he sees a false profit talk of the amazing improvement's to hibernation and genetics while this massive dark master gets crosses with strings attached to the damned cat's that have been mutilated, this is the darkest most beautiful thing I've ever seen, I'm an avid fan of a comic called JACK, and that's the closest thing to this kind of artistic violence.
SPOILER ALERT 2: The story flows to it's conclusion which has a fight seen, if this fight seen with fire surrounding to melodramatic cat's fighting to the death is accurate to the 1989 book, then Disney has clearly riped this ending off in the lion king(still a good movie). This seen flows with a great brutal battle with an finality that is both emotional and ultra violent, in fact this whole movie, feels like a mix between the emotional beauty of Don Bluth, with the artistic violence of Clive Barker. I saw the dubbed English version, which i was expecting to be horrid, but most of the voices fit, and gave heart in their acting. which is what really counts. seriously if your a fan of any of these three Clive Barker, Don Blouth, or David Hopkins, then you owe it to your self to see this movie.