Plot: Gan, the only son of the owner of Takada Toy Shop and his girlfriend Ai serve together as Yatterman, the superhero that (along with their mecha dog Yatter-wan) fight the evil Doronbow gang, headed by the sexy Doronjo and her wacky henchmen Boyacki and Tonzra. When the daughter of an explorer brings one of four pieces of the mysterious Skull Stone to them, they must find the other pieces before the Doronbow gang does. The evil force behind the gang, the mysterious Skullobey, wants to use it to steal the world! (Source: animenewsnetwork.com)
Yatterman is live-action adaption of hugely popular anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions in the late 1970s that was revived last year in Japan.
«Takashi Miike's Yatterman is ridiculous, juvenile and sometimes tiresome, but it's all in the service of sending up a particularly beloved genre of anime. Good, guilty fun if you're in the right frame of mind.»
«despite the stunningly idiotic gags, the dingbat musical numbers and dazzling color schemes, the pic's repetitive episodic structure ultimately trumps Miike's parody of it, and becomes wearisome after a while.»
«It's pure candy-coated insanity, but so earnest and charming in it that it's tough to resist.»
Twitch, by Lauren Baggettsource:
http://twitchfilm.net/reviews/2009/07/fantasia-09-review-yatterman.php
«It's a love letter to anyone who ever eagerly looked forward to watching cartoons “every Saturday at 6:30 pm”. And it's all told with a wink, a smile, and a cheesy victory pose.»
«however, that’s a fairly minor criticism of what is otherwise a ridiculously entertaining film. And while it probably won’t appeal to the fans who have Miike pigeon-holed as an “extreme cinema” director, it should appeal to just about anyone looking for a goofy, fun way to spend two hours.»
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