Mars Express

A million miles away This is what earth will be like next 30 years It was trippy you felt joy, sadness, life, and death Fun ride

Review: part two. Farce Express will deliver an interesting, underground story straight to the withering sun of a controversial script and amateurish direction. BOTTOM LINE: an honest 5.6 out of 10, I do not recommend it to the general public, but fans of underground animation (Animatrix, Fire and Ice) who are looking for something stylistically similar to Mars Express will do; The film was clearly created for the Cannes Film Festival in order to announce to the whole world that French animation, after the success of such visual masterpieces as Les Enfants de la pluie (2003), La Reine Soleil (2007) and the albeit not beautiful, but innovative Kaena: La prophetie (2003), which were ruined by the World economic crisis (2009-20??), «still alive!». Alas, the French multipliers are not moving beyond this manifesto, as confirmed by the box office receipts, with a budget of 9,000,000 euros, Mars Express earned a modest 1,455,000. The French are plagued by the same problem as their colleagues 20 years ago - they create beautiful and unusual stories, but incomprehensible to the general public, and therefore commercially disastrous and ruinous for any studio or animation union. The French are just one step away from global success, but they don't know where to step in order to achieve it. All this makes me sad and sincerely wish not to give up and hone my screenwriting skills. It's always good to watch a weak alternative to French animation, which stands up to such intrusive MONOPOLISTS and financial market sharks as Disney and DreamWorks.

Review: part one. Farce Express will deliver an interesting, underground story straight to the withering sun of a controversial script and amateurish direction. PROS: the aesthetics of the animated film echoes the series of computer games Mass Effect (2007, 2010, 2012), animated cartoons Animatrix (2003), Fire and Ice (1983); An unconventional approach to «camera work», we were pleased with the third-person views and panoramas, in the modern era of dull, uniform plans, this immediately catches the eye and causes a favorable emotion, which is even more IMPORTANT - a better immersion in the atmosphere of the picture and an increased sense of verisimilitude for the viewer; At the right moments in the story, the artistic action on the screen accelerates, in a measured rhythm, and keeps the viewer in suspense; Spectacular chases and shootouts;In some cases, a deep atmosphere and high realism of what is happening on the screen are observed and felt; There is a limited number of beautiful and thoughtful design of buildings and vehicles; The balance between physical violence and eroticism is very French, and the scenes of murder and hedonism are carefully shown without the cynicism and shocking cruelty inherent in Anglo-Saxons and Asians; There are references to European philosophy, especially in the scene with the «Golden Unicorn», as an allusion to a hedonistic and degenerate society; The authors tried to make the main character through everyday scenes as natural and lively as possible; The plot forces us to analyze the mistakes of the main characters and draw conclusions; Towards the end of the story, natural, human, dramatic emotions are beautifully shown.CONS: weak musical accompaniment; The average level of graphics, sometimes degraded to primitiveness; A deliberately prolonged plot to fill in screen time, which causes boredom; The presence of annoying, banal cinematic cliches from science fiction; The overall low level of design;Technological anachronisms are often encountered, which are gradually disappearing in our time and are even more absurd in the rather distant future - in the year 2200. It hurts the viewer's eyes and strikes at the atmosphere of the animated film; The frequent presence of cinematic blunders (the heroine sees a reflection on an object that is turned sideways to her, but the protagonist standing in front of the object does not; video cameras are mentioned in the picture, in the form of eye pupils, thanks to which androids can see the surrounding reality, but they are absent during anatomical autopsy, so how do robots see?; a red box appears on the left from the heroine, near the stairs at the entrance to «The End» bar, although he had not been there before; an elevator appears from somewhere in the two-story store, which lifts passengers to high floors; an ordinary car CAN WITHSTAND a hit by a cruise, anti-tank missile with homing; protective foam miraculously does not pour passengers to death when heated; the same protective mechanism reacts differently (and absurdly) when the car door lock is damaged, but without damaging the car body, and so on); Emotional degradation of the main characters - the protagonists at the beginning of the story evoke more empathy than at the end; The frequent inconsistency of the plot and the scrapping of their own script rules; Improbability, falsity of everyday scenes and misunderstanding of the psychology of the characters due to the authors' small life experience; The main disadvantage is the general illogic, stupidity, dampness of the script and the destruction of the main plot plot on which the intrigue and tension of the whole story were based. Which causes the viewer to be disappointed and devalues the animated film Mars Express.

It is a quality animation without much substance. The dialogue is well-written, the characters are likeable, and the art direction is impeccable. However, the story leaves many gaps, and some characters critical for understanding the plot are, in my opinion, underrepresented.

this is an insulting bait and switch. the creators made 10 minutes of footage and just looped it over, and over and over and called it a feature film. it's is one of the most ridiculous wastes of time i've ever seen in animation.