Anime: Lupin Sansei: Fuuma Ichizoku no Inbou

Excellent![br][br]Lo, The green jacket has redeemed the situation, and verily this was a very decent film. But, as with too many things, not flawless.[br][br]Animution is a solid effort. A very consistent, very effective character animation exercise came out of this, and all the major points of contention of visual quality ranked fairly well. Even the age of the thing rather improves matters. The piece comes across with more quality than should really be there. [br][br]Sound is a faltering, but still passable. Period music ( synth!) all over the place, over-use of high pitch post processing (or possibly just a subpar preservation of the original) and a lower standard of voice acting than I had expected. [br][br]The story and general premise are quite good , but as is to be expected from the franchise , leaps of sense and physics occur on a semi-permenant basis. What makes this one agreeable, is that most of them can be justified on the ground of narrative expediency, and come at a regular and consistent intervals to ensure that the whole effort is nicely balanced.[br][br]As an aside, this instant's car chase was quite possibly the most ridiculously entertaining example of the gimmick that i've seen since Stink Bomb.[br][br]Character development and embroidery is there, but to be honest it isnt really needed much. The only element that particularly matters is handled in a bit of a throwaway fashion (concise and efficient though it may be), and the introductory gag could have used a bit more polish. Still , it works which is more than I'd hoped.[br][br]So aye; a rather good instance of slapstick, comedy and bits of action combined in a nicely handled package. I'd recommend (and will at the next opportunity) this to pretty much anyone and would encourage you to get it sharpish.[br]