The Worst Film Ever

Best movie ever!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

'Cutie Honey' is one of the sillier cutesy, unfocused, exuberant, action/fantasy anime for grade school girls. Usually this is TV show material but here it is a love-conquers-all themed feature length film...and yeah, there's the minor detail that it is a live action movie. But don't think that this is comparable to the Wachowskis' 'Speed Racer' which adapted anime to live action with an overall western understanding of aesthetics and with certain anime-touches only giving it an anime-like FEEL...believe this statement to be true or not now, if you see 'Cutie Honey' you will immediately realize through juxtaposition that it is true. 'Cutie Honey' in contrast is conceived EXACTLY like an anime in all its unapologetic hyperkinetic, fetishistic, shallow silliness, adding nothing to it and subtracting nothing from it. There is no adapting going on whatsoever, it obviously was storyboarded as if it was to become an anime (the behind-the-scenes feature proves this assumption to be true) and then they had to figure out how to realize it in front of a camera.Composition, mis-en-scene, framing, pacing, acting, music, you name it, there's nothing that distinguishes it from an anime, except of course that by default this has more details than the drawings of an anime. Seeing such an anime played out for real automatically multiplies the inherent silliness making it difficult to bear for probably any adult without the proper fetishes, this especially applies to the acting considering that those characters all have terrible mood swings. All things considered it's all achieved with the aid of relatively little CGI (and animation) which in a way makes it seem like it's ignoring the artificiality of its visuals while 'Speed Racer' is celebrating and actively using it.It would have been a dreadful experience if only...yes, if only I wouldn't have been so fascinated by the uniqueness of having the visual language of anime and all those well-worn anime conventions transferred into a different medium (basically). The sheer wrongness of the whole endeavor is enough of a reason to be amazed by it and to be fascinated by the experiment that it is. It's interesting to see in practice that what works for anime doesn't work for live action movies, what's stylish in one often comes across as cheap in the other. And so it isn't a particularity successful or enjoyable movie but at least for me it was a fascinating one, akin to the experiment of a certain shot-for-shot remake of 'Psycho'.

Let's put it clear from the beginning, the film is an exercise in style, and the style is anime. If you like anime, this is THE FILM you'd love to see, characters, timing, acting, dialog, cameras, lights, sound...An fan's dream, a film made by a man who loves anime for all the people who love anime. When I found that Anno, the man who made Neon Genesis Evangelion, was in this project, I thought it would be great. When I finally saw it, I found it was better, I kept a smile all time long. If you don't like it, well, try something else. If you don't like blues, you'd protest about repetitive riffs and metrics, long guitar solos and so on. Each kind of art has its codes, and if you share them you understand and appreciate it. For me, this is a masterpiece of live action anime.

Cutey Honey is a fun adaptation of the animated series into a live-action feature. There's not much depth here; characters are pretty simple and the acting is nothing special. Eriko Sato's main job is to look great, and she does. I'm not complaining here, I'm just forewarning any viewers who might be looking for something that takes itself seriously. Cutey Honey does not.Well, it doesn't take itself seriously until the ending. The final showdown between the creepy Sister Jill and Honey features a awkwardly-toned message about love. It's a fine message but compared to free-wheeling silliness of the rest of the film, it feels very slow and uncomfortable. After all, this is a few minutes after a villain sings to Cutey Honey before a battle.Despite the "downer" ending, I still had a lot of fun watching Cutey Honey, and I would recommend it to others who are willing to relax and enjoy it as well.

I have to go with the other posters. This was the most amazing and revolutionary action-adventure I have seen since "Road Warrior" way back when! Yes, maybe I sound like a nut after saying that, but the energy from the Fantasia Festival debut of this movie has convinced that I am not insane after all. "Cutie Honey" (the most unlikely action-film title I ever heard or could imagine) deserves to go down in film history as one of the greatest action-adventures of all time. For instance it's 10X better than the Lethal Weapon series, and Quentin Tarantino only wishes he had the talent to create a film like this (rather than steal it).Then again, since "Hollywood" denigrates films like this? I am not sure what its fate will be. But if it got a US release it could revolutionize the US film industry like nothing people have seen. In the meantime I only hope anyone reading this has a chance to see this amazing film.It's that F'N good.,