Okja

The picture, which never stops moving, is dense with information and feeling. Barbs of satire pop up and are washed away on streams of strong emotion. It’s all marvelously preposterous and yet, at the same time, something important is at stake.

A work of melancholy enchantment, by turns sweet, funny, scary, sad, and—in the manner of all good science fiction movies—thought-provoking.

A pot-bellied fable unlike anything else you’ll see this year. Not since Babe has an adorable porker inspired such peculiar joy or unexpected heartache.

Okja in it. It’s the antithesis of cookie-cutter, made-by-committee filmmaking. Prepare to be amazed, grossed out, provoked, punchdrunk, and tickled.

Downright charming at times and irrepressibly gonzo at others, Okja hews to an all-too-familiar trajectory.

If you see Okja, and I hope you do, stay for the final credits. It’s not often that a stinger scene pops up at the end of a movie, not to pre-sell the inevitable sequel, but to leave you with something to think, wonder, and worry about.

Okja takes the worst impulses of Walt Disney, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton and Michael Moore and rolls them into one movie.

This is one of those defining stories after which, nothing is ever the same again.

I just saw this movie and I was all ready to write a scathing review, despite my ingoing sympathies for both animal rights and dignity and charming Korean actresses, but I have to say, Jess_Hill already nailed it. So, what she said (see below).

I don't think the film was supposed to have an anti-meat message, or if it was, I wasn't bothered by it. I felt it was more anti-corporation (yes, that old chestnut again), which has been done to death and really is a waste of celluloid time. It's like being anti-sunshine, or declaring a war on terror – soundbite nonsense that has no hope of success. What I didn’t like about the film was the acting. The young girl was awkward and seemed ill at ease in front of the camera. Jake Gyllenhaal was just terrible and Tilda Swinton wasn’t much better - they gave ham-fisted (pun intended) performances that were embarrassing to behold. Having said all that, I liked the big pig thing. He/she/it was cute, in a way that a hippo crossed with a dog would be cute. And who wouldn’t want an animal that craps on demand.

With this much intellectual prowess, CGI creativity, financial largess, and directorial talent, the producers should be ashamed they released this poor an excuse for a film. Only the music excels, and boy does it. the plot is not original, the performances pedestrian, and the continuity of a broken glass window paine. there is a much simpler, beautiful movie in there somewhere, but it got lost a long time ago.

Unfortunatly this film with a great idea behind it. Isn't all in English, it's part English with the rest being Korean. While of course this is accurate since the film is set there for some time, its very distracting having to read subtitles rather then taking in the visual medium.