*THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS READ IT ONLY AFTER WATCHING THE ANIME!*
Well I will start with the best, THE ART. Superb will be shrunken to the size of a microbe when compared to the wonderful animation art and style of this movie.
The moment you jump into the movie is the moment you will see one of the most unforgeable scenes ever, the aircraft and the fighting were out of this world, the 3D and the 2D graphic combination is amazing, AWESOME in other word. but all good thing must end and the moment you get to see the characters talk walk and etc you will be disgust, but after a while you will start to enjoy it(though you may not believe this at first). anyway at the end of the day it was one of the best art I have ever seen in any movie.
10/10 -must see-
SPOILERS AHEAD***
Story: Average. anyone who find it amazing and wonderful had probably never read or watched any seinen mangas or animes before watching this anime. the concept of loops is a well known thing in lots of mangas and animes and while The Sky Crawler may have used this concept to a very impressive extend there are better animes and mangas out there with the same concept which are superb in many way to this movie. the other half of the story, the pilots and their life in the camp and in the battlefield was also very nice and realistic. also all the concept that were applied in the movie were very enjoyable in there own ways. so even though the whole concept wasn't so original it deserve a 8/10 for being fairly enjoyable. :}
Sound: nothing much to say here, it was nice and the dubbers were nice and the background sounds were nice and that was nice and so on~
Average but nice 7/10
Character: well I really enjoy the unique character, they were interesting and each one of them have their unique past story and habits ~ the interactions between characters was also very interesting and unique, because even though most of the characters look like children they interact in many adult's ways.
the most enjoyable part of the characters is the human-like feeling that you get from each of them~ even though most of the reaction and the action which they make are filled with apathy you can really see lots of emotion behind those reactions which is an amazing point for such a short movie. 8.9/10
Enjoyment: the worst point in this movie, There is no critic-point no drama everything is plain most of the time, and although the story goes on it just feels boring. I enjoyed lots of point in this movie but the boredom that I felt in those 2 hour cant be missed. 5.9/10 *yawn*
one thing I must add and say is that the fighting in the movie amazed me,probably the best thing I got from watching it. although it wasn't much, the tricks and the ideas which are shown in those fight are very unique and special and probably the closest thing to real air-fight.
