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Genius Party – 04 – Doorbell Review – 75/100
Since the third episode of Genius Party isn’t out yet, I went on to number four: Doorbell. This one may seem like the odd one amongst the different movies, as it’s been directed by a manga-artist:...
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Genius Party – 07 – Baby Blue Review – 82,5/100
Call me crazy, but Baby Blue has been the best of the short movies from Genius Party for me so far, but then again, with such a stellar storyteller behind the direction (Shinichiro Watanabe, who...
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Genius Party – 06 – Happy Machine Review – 80/100
It’s back to the surreal with Masaaki Yuasa (Kaiba, Kemonozume, Mind Game)’s addition to Genius Party. He probably wrote this before he started working on Kaiba, and it’s very apparent that he wrote...
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Genius Party – 12 – Dimension Bomb Review – 85/100
Sorry for the lateness, but I’m finally ready to review the second batch of Genius Party shorts. Dimension Bomb features an all-star cast: it’s directed by Koji Morimoto, animated by Jamie Vickers and...
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Genius Party – 08 – Gala Review – 82,5/100
Yeah, don’t mind about the order of these posts. I found out a bit too late about the real order of the shorts, so I’ll just label them accordingly and review the individual movies alphabetically… for...
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Genius Party – 09 – Moondrive Review – 80/100
Moondrive is the oddball of Genius Party. It’s a full fledged comedy, much more than Shanghai Dragon was. It is really silly, and I got a great laugh out of it. The director of this one is a genius of...
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Genius Party – 11 – Toujin Kit Review – 82,5/100
While there are other quiet shorts in Genius Party, Toujin Kit definitely feels to be the most down-to-earth no-nonsense movie of the bunch. At the end of the thirteen minutes, there is no doubt what...
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Genius Party – 10 – Wanwa the Doggy Review – 77,5/100
Well… what can I say…? Wanwa the Doggy is… different. It’s… I’m still not sure what it is; all I know that it was really, really weird. The one who brought us this abomination was Shinwa Ohira, an...
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Genius Party – 03 – Deathtic 4 Review – 77,5/100
Most of Genius Party’s animation is hand drawn or animated with cells. Deathtic 4 instead is nearly entirely CG, and feels the most like a platform to try out new CGI techniques. On top of that, the...
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Genius Party – 05 – Limit Cycle Review – 72,5/100
Genius Party gathers many different people with many different talents to create shorts. With Limit Cycle, this is monologues. It’s basically 20 minutes of monologue about religious and philosophical...
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