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14-02-2005, 06:27 AM
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2005-02-02/film/film.html" target="_blank" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.animationtrip.com/news/images/sky_blue.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="117" width="193" border="0"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3">Color Bland</font></a></strong><strong><br></strong><em>South Korea's first anime feature is beautiful, but not much more</em></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--StartFragment --><font size="2"> There is nothing about <em>Sky Blue</em> that
hasn't been done before, yet it all looks like nothing you've ever
seen. It's a wondrous sight, this hybrid of computer-generated
animation, conventional two-dimensional cell animation and filmed
sequences. But it's ponderous to contemplate once you get over the
thrill of witnessing its spectacle. The movie exists almost as if to
prove you can admire something while finding it utterly dispiriting;
the thing will knock your socks off, just in time for you to climb into
bed. The drawing card of this particular production is that it was made
with South Korean cash, some $10 million of it, and co-directed by Park
Sunmin, who produced <em>The Others </em>with, among others, Tom Cruise and Harvey Weinstein. <a href="http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2005-02-02/film/film.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">Read on...</a></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong><a href="http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2005-02-02/film/film.html" target="_blank" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://www.animationtrip.com/news/images/sky_blue.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="117" width="193" border="0"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3">Color Bland</font></a></strong><strong><br></strong><em>South Korea's first anime feature is beautiful, but not much more</em></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><!--StartFragment --><font size="2"> There is nothing about <em>Sky Blue</em> that
hasn't been done before, yet it all looks like nothing you've ever
seen. It's a wondrous sight, this hybrid of computer-generated
animation, conventional two-dimensional cell animation and filmed
sequences. But it's ponderous to contemplate once you get over the
thrill of witnessing its spectacle. The movie exists almost as if to
prove you can admire something while finding it utterly dispiriting;
the thing will knock your socks off, just in time for you to climb into
bed. The drawing card of this particular production is that it was made
with South Korean cash, some $10 million of it, and co-directed by Park
Sunmin, who produced <em>The Others </em>with, among others, Tom Cruise and Harvey Weinstein. <a href="http://www.riverfronttimes.com/issues/2005-02-02/film/film.html" target="_blank" target="_blank">Read on...</a></font></p>