Time to watch an episode of Wacky Rac......... I mean watch Redline which is pretty much the anime equivalent of Wacky Races. In case you do not know what Wacky Races is you did not have a childhood. Anyway time to get out of my nostalgia trip and get into a drug trip as that will make Redlines unique art style more unique if that where any bit possible.
Redline is a anime movie that has had a lot of work put into its animation and when I mean a lot its literally seven years of drawing for Madhouse who made it. If there is any reason to watch Redline it is definitely for the hand drawn frames of art that the movie is animated in. The art style itself is very colourful and my reference to drug trip earlier would give you an idea of how colourful I am talking about. Basically during mainly the final part of the movie so much stuff is going on that the animations looks crazy with a multitude of flashing colors and movements.
If you are a animation junkie you will definitely fall in love with Redline. If you are a simple viewer who loves to just be entertained this will probably kill two of your hours. If you are someone looking for a deep story with loads of characters sorry but this place isn’t for you. Redline story is absolutely simple where a group of racers are participating in Redline which is the professional race above all other races in the galaxy. What are they racing for Redline? Really fast hover vehicles. Where is Redline happening? This one planet roboworld full of evil robodudes who don't like the idea of people racing on their roboplanet.
So the story is about a very high speed race where the drivers are in trouble of getting blown to pieces by the local military. Our main characters name is JP or Sweet JP who is a space greaser type character. His role is to be the cool guy we want to see win the race. We have another main character Sonoshee who is the female racer we want to win/love interest for JP. The main characters and pretty much everyone in this movie are generic space movie characters. There are weird aliens, robots and such who accompany the cast however no characters get fleshed out which is not the aim of film. The aim of the film is to produce animation beauty and not deep characters.
Redline has a nice upbeat soundtrack that because upbeat in the moments necessary. If you have ever seen a racing movie you can recall music which gets extremely upbeat as the engine because to roar to the max. This is the case with the music in Redline as those moments where things go crazier the music goes for the same level of insanity as the engines rise in volume.
My overall enjoyment of Redline was like a two hour long drinking session where I would get drunk and have a good laugh. In this case I am drunk on the beauty of the animation rather than the alcohol. Overall I would give the film a nine out of ten as like a drinking session I was not fully satisfied with the ending (don't worry I was not vomiting at the end of Redline).