This movie has cool skeletons in it, but its plot is unfortunately also a skeleton. There's little substance and no meaning to what's going on. The characters don't have names. The fishermen and the shadow fish are never explained. Having a character misquote the section of the Bible concerning Noah's Ark and the Flood does not magically lend your movie any meaning whatsoever, even if your movie's setting seems to be a world that has been flooded. (Also, take a drink for "Japanese media that attempts to use Christian themes without understanding them.") All in all, though this movie is pretty, it's not inventive and not worth your time.
This animated French movie is just awful. The plot is nonsense: the villain is only defeated because, for absolutely no reason, he choose to not just command but cause the protagonist to pass into the future in suspended animation, and be restored at a time when the villain is weaker and less able to defend himself. All of that takes up a third of the movie. The bad guy's soldiers (robots with a Nazi-inspired color scheme) plod monotonously through landscape. The animation is merely acceptable: at one point the protagonist slips off a log and the movements are so stiff they might as well be a cheap flipbook.
