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Anime movies- what ya got

For the last, the movie I found most disappointing is Metropolis. Its premise makes the pretension of addressing the issues of a human-robotic society--as either a metaphor for racism and class division or as a matter to be taken at face value--and humankind's attempt to create intelligence. However, it fails miserably on both points. The class struggle that existed was shown briefly--too briefly. The result was that it relied on knowledge of more fleshed out dystopian revolutions such as Wells' When the Sleeper Wakes to guess at the motivations and dynamics that occurred in the movie.

The only result of the class struggle was spoiler[doing away with Pero,] which was only one of the few examples of the horrible character development in the movie. I gathered that Pero's relationship with the Bans was meant to be something touching, but the matter was given too little time to develop into anything near that which existed between Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw. Similarly, we jump from Tima spoiler[being a complete tabula rasa to her being an imprinted chick upon Keichi and calling his name in the matter of a single scene switch,] producing the feeling of having missed something important and leaving the heroine a character towards whom it was difficult to feel sympathy. Fortunately, this made the ending more acceptable. It was unintelligible and seemed like a deus ex machina device to spoiler[topple the Tower of Babel and the city that built it, all the more so because it literally showed a dormant AI proclaimed as a deity and attempting to destroy the human population.]

Metropolis was the worst anime movie experience I've had. The only good things I have to say about the movie was the jazz music and the animation quality, but the animation budget was partially squandered on bizarre scenes like the automated firefighters.