Hey, Wes Anderson actually used some angles in this! He's starting to learn some new techniques!

Wes Anderson's style of comedy is usually hit or miss for me (usually miss for that matter), but I found this one worked nicely. Not sure if it was because the animation allowed for a different sort of quirkiness, or the story was just better than his usual fare. Whatever it was, I enjoyed it. I laughed, I thought about how some people might…

I always find that Andrew Niccol's sci-fi films offer very interesting perspectives on the social issues new tech seems to threaten to inspire. The augmented-reality tech presented in this film would have some amazing advantages, along with some inevitable disasters waiting to happen. From a sci-fi idea perspective, I thought the ideas in this film were fun and thought-provoking. Unfortunately, on the story level, it feels a bit rushed, especially in the second half, and the ending rather anticlimactic. It…