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a very good movie. quite the ride! beautiful animation. not too sure about the character designs but the backgrounds were absolutely beautiful!

i love the theme of this movie. i hope we don't end up this way!

Unique movie, based on contrasts and balance. Recommend to watch for everyone, though somebody can dislike its someway strange way of presenting the story to 5/10 and some of others can like it even up to 10/10. This is really a case when all depends on your own taste.

1) From time to time you can see dark, but relatively high-colored beautiful urban high-tech or punky backgrounds, though others are bright and calm. Very good backgrounds, if you compare with such in other movies.
2) Different characters act very different. It's like fat good-natured detective Ban is taken from some childish tale, and self-possessed Rock is from serious cyberpunk story. Though almost all of them are animated like in a fairy tale.
3) Some of dramatic moments contrast with the soundtrack playing at that time. Music is... hard to say correctly... circus-like (something like that you could hear in "Paprika"). Moments that are close to the final happen with old American restaurant' music playing (nah, I can't explain better what I hear). Sound is mastered and mixed perfectly, positioning is also great -- one of the best audiotracks in anime. Both video and music give you interesting feelings.
4) There's no absolutely good or bad guys.
5) Pace is well-aligned: dynamic, average or slow when it's needed.
6) Plot is well and it's sufficient.
7) And the last: Metropolis has half-happy ending :) .

Upd: I gave it 8/10.

At least better than futuristic Miyazaki shit.

I loved it.The style of the characters looked a little old fashioned,which was nice.

Loved it. I'm just going to pretend/assume she gets put all back together like FiFi.

the one thing that really stands out is the soundtrack. i mean i really loved the music. it was a very good movie. the ending is kind of bitter sweet too.

The ending is what made this movie so good for me. Gave me an Akira and Fritz Lang Metropolis vibe which is Awesome! Great movie for Sci-Fi and Cyberpunk fans.

Nice little anime :)

If you want a happy ending (Tima in one piece), then look at it: http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9533/metropolispictureqp5.jpg its picture after the credits depicting a shop named "Kenichi & Tima Robot Company," with Tima visible in the window.

Even if it's not that popular, that anime is b----o----r----i----n----g.

Was a good movie.

Totally. I was getting a huge Akira vibe at the ending too! I still need to see the Fritz Lang Metropolis though. I heard Tezuka say he hadn't seen Metropolis, just a single still in a magazine. Regardless, I still need to watch it...

　Just laying it there, the feeling of Akira is probably cuz Otomo Katsuhiro wrote the script for metropolis =P