Wonderful Days 2003

Critics score:
55 / 100

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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Only gets into serious trouble when it focuses on human interaction. That's because directors Moon-saeng Kim and Park Sunmin have populated the movie with every stereotype in Asian animation. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: Great to look at, but it's more silly than profound. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Isn't just animation, it's high cinema. Read more

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Sky Blue is everything Appleseed is not: mature, character driven, well-developed and haunting. Read more

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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Beautifully drawn. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Like a lot of other Asian sci-fi anime: a stunningly imagined world of the future populated with one-dimensional characters caught up in a trite plot. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: The writers leave us little to think about after they've created such blunt stereotypes of the bad and the good. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: When a brilliant fish wriggles by, even a less than ardent anime viewer will want to freeze the frame and gape. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: A gorgeous work of animation, juxtaposing photo-realistic backgrounds with surrealistic images and actions. It rewards the effort of seeing it on the big screen. Read more

David Chute, L.A. Weekly: A soulless piece of product, an ungainly hybrid of sketchy hand-drawn characters in blocky CGI environments, derivative at just about every level. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Sky Blue teeters unsteadily between dystopian fable and Saturday-morning cartoon. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

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Derek Elley, Variety: Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: The overall command of animation technique is extremely impressive on the bigscreen. Read more

Ed Park, Village Voice: Most of the action is tedious, and the less you pay attention to the dialogue, the less you'll feel your hand inadvertently twitching as if with joystick. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's a handsome thing, familiar and new at once, thoroughly entertaining if hardly memorable. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The more traditionally drawn 2-D human characters are as flat, in every sense of the word, as can be. Read more