Mutafukaz

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English: MFKZ

Synonyms: M★F★K★Z

Japanese: ムタフカズ -MUTAFUKAZ-

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 12, 2018

Producers: Ankama

Licensors: NYAV Post, GKIDS

Studios: Studio 4°C, Ankama Animations

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Psychological, Sci-Fi, Super Power

Duration: 1 hr. 34 min.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.24¹ (scored by 233 users)

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Ranked: #2711²

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After a scooter accident provoked by a mysterious woman's vision, Angelino, a deadbeat like thousands of others in Dark Meat City, starts getting violent migraines that are accompanied by strange hallucinations. Along with his good buddy Vinz, he tries to figure out what's happening to him while threatening men in black seem determined to catch him.

(Source: Annecy)

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Mutafukaz is a joint production of France and Japan adapting the comic strip series (bande dessinée) of the same name by Guillaume Renard, also known as Run. The comic strip was first published in 2006 and ran until the release of its final chapter in 2015. The film was in production for seven years, with Ankama publicly announcing the project in 2011 and first screening it at the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

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Angelino

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Kusanagi, Tsuyoshi
Japanese

Vinz

Main

Emoto, Tokio
Japanese

Willy

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Mitsushima, Shinnosuke
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Luna

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Uesaka, Sumire
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Nishimi, Shoujirou

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Renard, Guillaume

Co-Director, Script, Storyboard, Original Creator

Mihara, Michio

Storyboard

Singelin, Guillaume

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#FR: "De La Calle Mutafuka'" by Carlos Milan Rosa & Niko Noki
#JP: "The King of DMC 〜theme〜" by Willy a.k.a. Shinnosuke Mitsushima

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Oct 13, 2018

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

tonyfony (All reviews)

7 people found this review helpful

This is a rare opportunity of a life time when you see a film releasing world wide or i mean all theaters in the US, such as imax etc. Overall shout out to gkids who distributed this film. when it to animation and character design in this film which first started from a comic series that i should probably check out but anyways the way 4c studio adapted so well and so beautiful i was blown away plus this contains veteran animator also other in-between animator as well. Watch the English version. its more proper to the story it take place

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Oct 29, 2018

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 6

enJ0Yable (All reviews)

2 people found this review helpful

This is my first review, so please don't kill me for any mistakes... ;)

Interesting that a quite niche-anime like Mutafukaz gets a two-days cinema screening in Germany thanks to Peppermint. There were just around 20 people in the movie when I was watching it, so financially it may not have been that good for the cinema. Still for me it was worth it.

Story (3/10):
For me, the only bad thing about the movie was the story. Without doing any spoilers, it's just senseless and hilarious, especially in the second half of the movie. It fits to the movie in general, but some things just happen randomly and you think "why the hell is this part of the movie?" or "what's going on here? that doesn't make sense". It's just hangling around from joke to joke without a proper point to reach at first, and everything is happening too fast to think about it some more. Well, the movie doesn't take itself too serious, so it's okay, but I didn't like it. The comical absurdity made me give it 3 points for story, otherwise a 2 or 1 would not have been far away...

Art (7/10):
The source material for the movie is a French comic strip, so don't expect an Asian art style here at all. Everyhing looks like a mixture between European and American culture (it plays in America somehow, so that's fine). It doesn't feel like an anime, more like a normal European animation movie. The animation is well-done and there are so much details in the pictures that you won't be able to get all at your first watch for sure.

Sound (9/10):
A cultural mixture of French hip-hop and house, and Latin music (for example Reggaeton). For me the best song was the Reggaeton song running during the credits. The songs perfectly fit to the background, but are completely different from most anime soundtracks. You may be disappointed if you like the pop/rock/metal-oriented soundtracks of Japanese anime movies.

Character (7/10):
Most characters in this movie didn't really make sense or were just hilariously exaggerated (clichès / stereotypes ahead!), which absolutely makes sense concerning the story. The two main characters are the only ones acting fairly normal. Sadly only one of the two gets a real characterization, while the second one acts more as a sidekick that stumbled into the whole thing by accident. Does he even have motives? We don't know...

In addition to that, it's not explained why some of the protagonists look as they look. This may be some reference, too, but I didn't get it then.

Enjoyment (9/10):
I was just laughing all the time (except for the parts where I was thinking "what the hell is going on here?"). The movie features lots and lots of Western cultural references. The humour of this movie is REALLY black. They don't fear to mock about anything: brand names, conspiracy theories, people, politics and many more. This is why the movie was so enjoyable for me, and I'm sure I didn't find all the hints and references at first watch. Some senseless stuff made me sigh because I didn't find it funny, but the rest was really worth it.

Overall: 6/10
Well, I'm sad that the story was not really fitting for me. The rest was very good and I would have given an 8/10, but this more or less patched story doesn't allow it. I gave a 6/10 because the movie overall is exactly what this number means: "nice".

I recommend tha movie to everybody from a Western audience who wants to laugh about cultural jokes. I fear many Asian viewers or people who like anime may be disappointed when watching it.

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Nov 3, 2018

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Abe_Resp (All reviews)

1 people found this review helpful

Just watched the American premiere of MFKZ:
The first thing I'd have to point out about this movie is its striking stylistic identity. It's a Japanese adaptation of a French graphic novel with HELLA American influences. This is pretty much a signature of how the definition of "real anime" is has been blurred in the recent years.
The art and animation delivered this mashup of cultural identities so well that it definitely absorbs the viewer into this dilapidated anime L.A. universe. Background art is crisp and detailed as hell which makes an interesting blend with the abstract, fluidly off-model character animations.
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