Yeah, I've seen it last year at Annecy. It's OK but not in the same league as other 3D works currently in theatres. Some nice plot concepts but it didn't really tickle my fancy.
Yeah, trouble with 3D is that people still look unreal and it is so time consuming to model that, that other aspects are neglected. I concentrated most on the story, and felt as I have sometimes with the japanese anime, where you must have read the comics to fully understand the movie. Perhaps there is a Kaena comic or book we don't know about?
There is one little problem whith the basis of the story, though: The huge tree is suspended where the gravities of the planets neutralize each other, right? Then how come the people there are not weightless?
Yeah, trouble with 3D is that people still look unreal and it is so time consuming to model that, that other aspects are neglected. I concentrated most on the story, and felt as I have sometimes with the japanese anime, where you must have read the comics to fully understand the movie. Perhaps there is a Kaena comic or book we don't know about?
There is one little problem whith the basis of the story, though: The huge tree is suspended where the gravities of the planets neutralize each other, right? Then how come the people there are not weightless?
I know two things about this movie.
1. They're advertising it all over the friggin' place.
2. These reviews:
"Feeling for all the world like an extended video game made by teenage boys with no girlfriends and a lot of free time, this sci-fi fantasy doesn't exactly make sense, but it sure looks cool."
-- Elizabeth Weitzman, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
"The folks who go in for this sort of Asimov-ian blather will probably contort themselves reading allegorical meaning into it all. The folks who don't will drift off to sleep."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"A creamy-colored yet derivative sci-fi fantasy with a few rip-offs so blatant ... that even kiddie fans not yet mentally agile enough to make sense of the loopy plot could pick them out."
-- Gregory Kirschling, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Despite several striking images and a high technical polish, this picture is just generic fantasy."
-- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES
"With its hasty computer rendering and thin stew of New Age mysticism, Judeo-Christian messianism, and Dungeons and Dragons geekism, Kaena is better suited to a smaller, more forgiving aspect ratio."
-- Mark Holcomb, VILLAGE VOICE
"The film's plot, themes and dialogue are markedly less inspired and original than its imagery."
-- Jonathan Foreman, NEW YORK POST
Other reviewers seem to agree that the imagery is good, but the story is crap.
Yeah, I've seen it last year at Annecy. It's OK but not in the same league as other 3D works currently in theatres. Some nice plot concepts but it didn't really tickle my fancy.
Yeah, trouble with 3D is that people still look unreal and it is so time consuming to model that, that other aspects are neglected. I concentrated most on the story, and felt as I have sometimes with the japanese anime, where you must have read the comics to fully understand the movie. Perhaps there is a Kaena comic or book we don't know about?
There is one little problem whith the basis of the story, though: The huge tree is suspended where the gravities of the planets neutralize each other, right? Then how come the people there are not weightless?
Yeah, trouble with 3D is that people still look unreal and it is so time consuming to model that, that other aspects are neglected. I concentrated most on the story, and felt as I have sometimes with the japanese anime, where you must have read the comics to fully understand the movie. Perhaps there is a Kaena comic or book we don't know about?
There is one little problem whith the basis of the story, though: The huge tree is suspended where the gravities of the planets neutralize each other, right? Then how come the people there are not weightless?