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Not for the youngest, but a film perfectly suited for whimsical adults. One interesting thing is there is none of the overdone trope of good and evil characters in the story. Some are slightly slanted to the bad side but there is an internal logic to why, and can be reasoned and bargained with. This detail lift the anime from certainly wellmade into true master class. Some would place Pricess Mononoke as no 1 while I say Spirited away get the all time best title. [I am completely lost why it is listed as Disney here, since this is a Studio Ghibli film.]

Absolutely fantastic film, theres only one small problem and that is the target audience. It is definitely not for the youngest ages, but for somewhat older yet a parent might be needed to explain some parts - unless the youngster already is well versed in fantasy and steampunk stories. And the storytelling is a bit weak on two points in the film. So a weak top score, read it as 9,5. Fun fact: The power armor and style in Fallout was inspired by this film.

Film of flashbacks, and that is a sign of terribad storytelling! Protagonist/Gosling have lost his memory, overused trope and bad storytelling, and the the film deliver old tropes in abundance, when watching I had a constant feeling Weir had gone all the way to the bottom of the barrel of overused and recycled tropes and ideas. Baxter used the idea of the Sun being consumed but in a way that at least could be considered believable with the photino birds, while Weir is more on level with Douglas Adams and the space goat. The film is sold as a hard science fiction story but chemically free of science, new ideas or sense of wonder. Add a silicone based lifeform, or is that a rock troll? Nice idea if used in 1960's scifi and often found in novels at the time, but too bad reality caught up proving such life cannot exist. But here Weir comitted grave robbery and digged up the old impossible trope anyway, so I guess we're in a fantasy story instead where anything is possible thanks to magic. So yeah a rock troll it is! What is really odd is the tone in the film swap back and forth from a human-alien slap stick and sugar bowl romp in interstellar space juxtaposing against a gloom and doom scenario were space bacteria is about to eat the Sun. Yes that's the threat that face humanity, is Weir afraid his sorry excuse for scifi might be too dull and skip any realism and go fairy tale instead, please do at least make the setting and premises believable! Even Star Trek which often straddles the line between scifi and space opera do at least keep itself internally consistent and therefore believable. In the end the film got no less than six endings, they could not even settle for a single one. Good scifi films have an ability to linger in the mind after seeing them, Hail mary will not be one of those. 2001 and even the original Alien even though visually dated, was fully believable and had a good portion of sense of wonder included. Even Event horizon stand out as a Bergman level masterpiece in comparision. So what remain is a very good demonstration of state of the art special effects and computer generated scenes that attempt to overshadow the fact that the story, the setting and the film is UTTER BULLCRAP!