I checked this movie out in hopes of something passable to watch. A different, animated take on Iron Man featuring the Punisher didn't sound too bad to me, I figured why not?
Then I saw the Sony Japan studio name in Japanese letters and I got worried. My worries were founded when this movie turned out to be an Avengers fan-fic Anime, chock full of all the same tropes that make the rest of the genre garbage.
The animation is blatantly choppy in a bid to draw less frames and save money. What little items move on screen move in a choppy manner, or are so far removed from screen that one would struggle to understand what's happening. Characters move as little as possible, with lots of facial panning and stand offs for the sake of exposition rather than quality. Everything's extremely saturated as well, leaving action scenes as incomprehensible with all the light saturation. It's an ugly movie through and through.
The story revolves around Tony Stark trying to beat what is essentially a generic Anime antagonist shoehorned into a crappy rendition of the Marvel universe. Every other line of dialogue is exposition because it's an Anime, so of course everything has to be narrated in long-winded conversations between characters. I can't believe they got Norman Reedus to voice the Punisher, but they did and it's the most bored, dispassionate voice acting I've heard from a familiar name. The rest of the story is...who cares, because it's too convoluted for it's own good thanks to it's Japanese origin. There are a million other Anime movies that are just as stupid but don't pull down the Marvel brand.
In short, skip this off-brand Marvel production. It's an affront to Stan Lee and everyone that built up the MCU, and an insult to the intelligence of anyone with a modicum of cinematic taste.
Then I saw the Sony Japan studio name in Japanese letters and I got worried. My worries were founded when this movie turned out to be an Avengers fan-fic Anime, chock full of all the same tropes that make the rest of the genre garbage.
The animation is blatantly choppy in a bid to draw less frames and save money. What little items move on screen move in a choppy manner, or are so far removed from screen that one would struggle to understand what's happening. Characters move as little as possible, with lots of facial panning and stand offs for the sake of exposition rather than quality. Everything's extremely saturated as well, leaving action scenes as incomprehensible with all the light saturation. It's an ugly movie through and through.
The story revolves around Tony Stark trying to beat what is essentially a generic Anime antagonist shoehorned into a crappy rendition of the Marvel universe. Every other line of dialogue is exposition because it's an Anime, so of course everything has to be narrated in long-winded conversations between characters. I can't believe they got Norman Reedus to voice the Punisher, but they did and it's the most bored, dispassionate voice acting I've heard from a familiar name. The rest of the story is...who cares, because it's too convoluted for it's own good thanks to it's Japanese origin. There are a million other Anime movies that are just as stupid but don't pull down the Marvel brand.
In short, skip this off-brand Marvel production. It's an affront to Stan Lee and everyone that built up the MCU, and an insult to the intelligence of anyone with a modicum of cinematic taste.