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My English isn't the best, but I'll try.

Score on this page is a complete joke. Noticed all the rankings here are from people who haven't seen the movie. Maybe there are a couple who have, but I looked through a handful of user histories, and all of them are from people who never once set foot in Japan, the only place in the world where this movie has been screened in its entire existence.

Got to see the movie w/ a couple buddies in November in Shinjuku. I was thinking about making a review here back then because I didn't see ... many English reviews online but didn't cause I didn't know how to describe it. And still have a hard time today. It's a tough movie to talk about because not much actually happens, as the other reviewer mentioned.

All I can say is that it's a really weird movie. The other reviewer hit the nail on the head of some specific examples of things like the background animation or static camera work, but saying it in words doesn't really prepare you for just how unusually this movie is framed and animated. Those crap tiny trailers that cut the scenes apart and zoomed in on characters from the intended massive panoramas to the extent that they look like QUALITY memes don't do it justice.

The plot is so simple and inconsequential that it boils down to the main characters going on tour in a floating bus. There isn't much that actually physically happens. It exists only so the audience gets an eyeful of beautiful vistas and panoramic shots. Maybe that's why it was made in 4K?

Gothicmade is like if some National Geographic film maker was asked to direct an animated movie. It's filled with wide shots and open spaces, as tiny characters run around freely. Even the final battle in a dusty dessert had its explosions set up more like slow crescendos than a blood-pumping action scene. I can't think of any other movie to compare it to.

And there were giant robots at the end but they really shouldn't be the main reason why you watch this movie because they barely have any screen time.