Cleopatra is a wild ride. Just looking at the cover and reading the synopsis will not prepare you even for a fraction of what happens in this movie and while overall it’s drawn out mess there’s enough crazy in this to warrant a watch.
First things first, when it comes to story Cleopatra is a rather dull, stretched out, vaguely historical retelling of Cleopatra’s life that mixes historical accounts with some legends and its own original scenes. For some reason this is all wrapped in the premise of people way far in the future going to the past cause they overheard aliens talking about a plan
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Alternative Titles
Japanese: クレオパトラ
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Type:
Movie
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Sep 15, 1970
Producers:
None found, add some
Licensors:
Discotek Media
Studios:
Mushi Production
Source:
Original
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Theme:
Historical
Duration:
1 hr. 52 min.
Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
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#113342
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Your Feelings Categories Apr 5, 2019
I haven't read most of Tezuka's manga, but as far as anime is concerned, he sure isn't very good. He seemed to lack some basic discernment, much like Tomino does for example, and littered his shit with unbecoming tonal shifts and jokes that have no place and exist merely cause he thought it would be funny. When reading some of his titles, it is common to have the flow interrupted by some visual gag and I wondered just why it was there to begin with. Cleopatra is a disaster in most senses, starting with its premise that sounds like one which would be promptly refused
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Dec 18, 2018
This movie really is a big, hot mess. It's all over the place, and never seems to really figure out what kind of movie it wants to be.
This is the second in the triumvirate of movies from Mushi Productions, coming on the heels of the more successful (and eminently more watchable) 1001 Nights. It falls flat on its face at the very start, opening with a ten-minute futuristic sequence, where three agents are sent to the past (Cleopatra's time) to find out the secret of the "Cleopatra Plan", which aliens are trying to use to ... Jun 28, 2021
Cleopatra is a difficult work to talk about and with, because it's essentially a very long and occasionally meaningless sex pervert movie (or, to put it more professionally, an erotic arthouse film) that nonetheless has a lot of historical and artistic interest.
The story and characters both effectively exist only as vessels for the artistic intent that MushiPro wanted to convey, which careens between erotic, comedic, genuinely tragic, and completely abstract. It's a long, long movie with very poor pacing that can be difficult to sit through if you're not in the right mindset, especially since most of the plot is flat and it occasionally ... Jan 23, 2024
Cleopatra is a work which is filled with as much good as it is bad. It is based on the life of Cleopatra, which it paints with very broad strokes. Parts of it are incoherent, especially in the first half, while others are genuinely good historical fiction. The opening scene, which mixes live-action and animation, is the worst thing I have ever seen. It was directed by both Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto, and you can see the signature of both of them here. It has Tezuka's trademark humor, which mostly is just inappropriate and jarring here. It's strange to see Tezuka's typical over-the-top slapstick
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Oct 12, 2022
To be honest, I liked it. Would I watch it again? No, it's a movie to watch just once, remember it, whether in a bad or good way and leave it there, forgotten. The animation's art style, at least for me, is what kept me watching, even though I fell asleep around half the movie and had to watch it again from that part on, that's another thing, it feels really long, specially in some parts around the start and the end. Let's say it's an experience, and you should watch it when you had slept well and around 5 to 6 pm.
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