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AAchi and SSipak
DVD/APPROX. 90 MINS/2006/SOUTH KOREA MA15+
DVD/APPROX. 90 MINS/2006/SOUTH KOREA MA15+
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The first thought about this movie would be, ‘why on earth aren’t we treated to an English dub?’. Like dubs or not, for the non-purists who prefer
English dubs this movie may not at first appeal. The reason as to why there is nothing of such could be presented within the opening monologue,
which is presented with scrolling text, and vocals, and subtitles. The scripting is simply too ridiculous for English and I fear a lot of the people who
would watch it with English voice over would be put off. Thankfully, not only are we not spared that travesty, but having to read it, almost gives its
own sense of hilarity, especially at the seriousness (or at least seemingly serious) presented by the voice over.
This may seem like a problem to some, but for me it works. Plus, who couldn’t love a movie about a society where people have had ID chips
installed into their Anus’ and rewarded with addictive confectionary based on the amount they shit? I don’t know about you, but that in itself
should present one of two things. The show is far from a serious post apocalyptic cyberpunk effect, and two, if you attempt to take it seriously, you
shouldn’t have purchased (or rented) this in the first place.
The basic premise just before we get started is that the world has run out of any forms of energy, nuclear, coal, etc. To combat this a new city was
born, which uses shit as the primary basis of power. If that isn’t far fetched enough for you, not only is the place run on poop, but people are
rewarded for it with ‘juicy bars’, addictive bars with side affects (life long constipation and the shrinking of the penis to peanut sized proportions).
Amongst all this illegal distribution and trading of the addictive bars has become prevalent. The city has become full of addicts and the side effects
have created dumb midgetised mutants, known as the ‘diaper gang‘ who look like the maniacal versions of the Smurfs. This is all revealed within
the opening sequence, but thought it was worth mentioning for people who have not heard of it before, or haven’t seen nary a scratch of it.
The animation of the show must be given a look at too. Not only is everything crisp and clear, heavily detailed, yet simple enough as not to become
confusing. Upon inspection (you don’t even need ‘closer inspection’) there is an evident amount of mixing of various animation styles. Certain
scenes can have many types that will remind you of various scenes from a multitude of anime titles all at once. One scene crafts a simple yet effect
use of CGI for the background, a style of colouring and flare predominant in American cartooning (think Osmosis Jones), and character designs
that share a mix from older ‘Studio Ghibli’ works and various Saturday morning cartoons like ‘Hey Arnold‘ or ‘Rugrats‘. The backgrounds when not
in motion are present in very detailed, post apocalyptic anime styles (think ‘Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust’, ‘Origin’ or possibly ‘Steamboy’). Camera
angles, well the animated equivalent, are extraordinary, as well as the choreography of battles and fights, hell, the opening road chase is a
testament to this, which shares an artistic flair for graphic violence similar to ‘Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children’ except with farm more fantastical
moves, bloodshed, and less constraints to the ‘realistic’.
The dialogue as mentioned is pretty corny if you were to imagine someone saying it in English, thankfully its hilarious to read as a subtitle, it almost
creates a sort of ‘distance’ thus allowing the viewer to take it a little less seriously (of course if you already speak Korean you may think differently
to me, I personally just think English voice actors couldn’t pull off this dialogue without laughing their asses off at how it sounds). And just knowing
what the basic story of the show is adds a lot to the humour of the dialogue, specially with bad guys spouting lines such as ‘We dedicated our crap
to this city’ and meaning it literally. The overall comedy though, is bloody fantastic in its silliness, the way characters react with each other, act, all
the way down to advertisements asking if you’re having problems defecating, and I doubt many will find it hard to get passed the fact that there is
no English voice over track. Just to reiterate, this film works as is.
Every character in this show is a masterpiece of comedic brilliance, seeming to fuse the mechanics of various forms of global slapstick. Everyone
from the leader of the ‘Diaper Gang’, to the ‘King of Defecation’ is a wonderful addition to the film, even if they appear for only a few seconds,
especially with minor characters and their ability to be remembered throughout, especially when they enquire about such things as ‘Illegal Anus
Users’. Even simple posters have such an affect that I would go so far as to call them characters in their own right, playing on popular fiction and
advertising such things as ‘Anal Instinct’ or a faux ‘Justice League’ poster featuring Batman, Robin and Superman facsimile’s sporting porno
referencing symbols, they fill in gaps between dialogue like Seth McFarlane (Family Guy writer and creator) fills in story line gaps with crazy and
hilarious flash backs.
And you want to know the best part? I have purposefully only described things that occur within the first quarter of an hour (I even watched the
film again up till the Justice League poster just to get that time for you!). There is so much within this first part of the movie to make one laugh
their anuses off that you could watch the first fifteen minutes of this movie over, and over again without even touching any of the actual plot to get
your satisfaction.
Of course I best share some of the plot with you, don’t worry, I just wanted to share all that ‘first fifteen minutes’ stuff with you first before I went
on to the overall story with you.
The film starts off with the ‘Diaper Gang’ attacking a Juicy Bar armoured transport. Their plan being foiled by the cyborg death machine ‘Super Cop’
Geko, thus leading to a dramatic speech, bloodthirsty interrogation of his minions, and an obvious foreshadowing that he is somehow going to
cause a lot of ‘shit’ for everyone later on. Next we are treated to a barrage of varying scenes introducing several characters, one being ’Jimmy the
Freak’ who is forced to get high on juicy bars till he begins to hallucinate thinking he is the superhero Shitman, and subsequently jumps out the
window, a pan shot following his blood revealing the presence of the Diaper Gang within the city. Upon a chance encounter with Jimmy, the gang
leader gets an idea to rig the amount of ‘Juicy Bar’s’ rewarded by the shit of a certain blue haired vixen who has become the object of obsession
of local hoodlums Aachi and Ssipak. In an attempt to assist her during an escape attempt, the two luckless miscreants get pulled into the dark
gazes of the Diaper Gang, for stealing their new ‘cash cow’ and also the authorities when the abnormal amount of Juicy Bar dispensing at their
residence raises alarms. They do not help their case when they become the premier Juicy Bar barons of Shit City either. One could say that the two
are currently up shit creek without a paddle, with a barb wire boat no less.
The audio for this feature is well done, with music, sound effects and other small nuances all being well timed. I can’t give you a clear review of the
voice acting seeing as I do not speak Korean, but it does appear at least to be solid.
The special features aren’t particularly stand out in this day in age of DVD production, offering merely a music video, teaser and theatrical trailers,
stills gallery, and various other trailers from ‘Eastern Eye’ who (along with Madman Entertainment) are the ones responsible for releasing this
movie in the Region 4 format. Thanks guys.
English dubs this movie may not at first appeal. The reason as to why there is nothing of such could be presented within the opening monologue,
which is presented with scrolling text, and vocals, and subtitles. The scripting is simply too ridiculous for English and I fear a lot of the people who
would watch it with English voice over would be put off. Thankfully, not only are we not spared that travesty, but having to read it, almost gives its
own sense of hilarity, especially at the seriousness (or at least seemingly serious) presented by the voice over.
This may seem like a problem to some, but for me it works. Plus, who couldn’t love a movie about a society where people have had ID chips
installed into their Anus’ and rewarded with addictive confectionary based on the amount they shit? I don’t know about you, but that in itself
should present one of two things. The show is far from a serious post apocalyptic cyberpunk effect, and two, if you attempt to take it seriously, you
shouldn’t have purchased (or rented) this in the first place.
The basic premise just before we get started is that the world has run out of any forms of energy, nuclear, coal, etc. To combat this a new city was
born, which uses shit as the primary basis of power. If that isn’t far fetched enough for you, not only is the place run on poop, but people are
rewarded for it with ‘juicy bars’, addictive bars with side affects (life long constipation and the shrinking of the penis to peanut sized proportions).
Amongst all this illegal distribution and trading of the addictive bars has become prevalent. The city has become full of addicts and the side effects
have created dumb midgetised mutants, known as the ‘diaper gang‘ who look like the maniacal versions of the Smurfs. This is all revealed within
the opening sequence, but thought it was worth mentioning for people who have not heard of it before, or haven’t seen nary a scratch of it.
The animation of the show must be given a look at too. Not only is everything crisp and clear, heavily detailed, yet simple enough as not to become
confusing. Upon inspection (you don’t even need ‘closer inspection’) there is an evident amount of mixing of various animation styles. Certain
scenes can have many types that will remind you of various scenes from a multitude of anime titles all at once. One scene crafts a simple yet effect
use of CGI for the background, a style of colouring and flare predominant in American cartooning (think Osmosis Jones), and character designs
that share a mix from older ‘Studio Ghibli’ works and various Saturday morning cartoons like ‘Hey Arnold‘ or ‘Rugrats‘. The backgrounds when not
in motion are present in very detailed, post apocalyptic anime styles (think ‘Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust’, ‘Origin’ or possibly ‘Steamboy’). Camera
angles, well the animated equivalent, are extraordinary, as well as the choreography of battles and fights, hell, the opening road chase is a
testament to this, which shares an artistic flair for graphic violence similar to ‘Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children’ except with farm more fantastical
moves, bloodshed, and less constraints to the ‘realistic’.
The dialogue as mentioned is pretty corny if you were to imagine someone saying it in English, thankfully its hilarious to read as a subtitle, it almost
creates a sort of ‘distance’ thus allowing the viewer to take it a little less seriously (of course if you already speak Korean you may think differently
to me, I personally just think English voice actors couldn’t pull off this dialogue without laughing their asses off at how it sounds). And just knowing
what the basic story of the show is adds a lot to the humour of the dialogue, specially with bad guys spouting lines such as ‘We dedicated our crap
to this city’ and meaning it literally. The overall comedy though, is bloody fantastic in its silliness, the way characters react with each other, act, all
the way down to advertisements asking if you’re having problems defecating, and I doubt many will find it hard to get passed the fact that there is
no English voice over track. Just to reiterate, this film works as is.
Every character in this show is a masterpiece of comedic brilliance, seeming to fuse the mechanics of various forms of global slapstick. Everyone
from the leader of the ‘Diaper Gang’, to the ‘King of Defecation’ is a wonderful addition to the film, even if they appear for only a few seconds,
especially with minor characters and their ability to be remembered throughout, especially when they enquire about such things as ‘Illegal Anus
Users’. Even simple posters have such an affect that I would go so far as to call them characters in their own right, playing on popular fiction and
advertising such things as ‘Anal Instinct’ or a faux ‘Justice League’ poster featuring Batman, Robin and Superman facsimile’s sporting porno
referencing symbols, they fill in gaps between dialogue like Seth McFarlane (Family Guy writer and creator) fills in story line gaps with crazy and
hilarious flash backs.
And you want to know the best part? I have purposefully only described things that occur within the first quarter of an hour (I even watched the
film again up till the Justice League poster just to get that time for you!). There is so much within this first part of the movie to make one laugh
their anuses off that you could watch the first fifteen minutes of this movie over, and over again without even touching any of the actual plot to get
your satisfaction.
Of course I best share some of the plot with you, don’t worry, I just wanted to share all that ‘first fifteen minutes’ stuff with you first before I went
on to the overall story with you.
The film starts off with the ‘Diaper Gang’ attacking a Juicy Bar armoured transport. Their plan being foiled by the cyborg death machine ‘Super Cop’
Geko, thus leading to a dramatic speech, bloodthirsty interrogation of his minions, and an obvious foreshadowing that he is somehow going to
cause a lot of ‘shit’ for everyone later on. Next we are treated to a barrage of varying scenes introducing several characters, one being ’Jimmy the
Freak’ who is forced to get high on juicy bars till he begins to hallucinate thinking he is the superhero Shitman, and subsequently jumps out the
window, a pan shot following his blood revealing the presence of the Diaper Gang within the city. Upon a chance encounter with Jimmy, the gang
leader gets an idea to rig the amount of ‘Juicy Bar’s’ rewarded by the shit of a certain blue haired vixen who has become the object of obsession
of local hoodlums Aachi and Ssipak. In an attempt to assist her during an escape attempt, the two luckless miscreants get pulled into the dark
gazes of the Diaper Gang, for stealing their new ‘cash cow’ and also the authorities when the abnormal amount of Juicy Bar dispensing at their
residence raises alarms. They do not help their case when they become the premier Juicy Bar barons of Shit City either. One could say that the two
are currently up shit creek without a paddle, with a barb wire boat no less.
The audio for this feature is well done, with music, sound effects and other small nuances all being well timed. I can’t give you a clear review of the
voice acting seeing as I do not speak Korean, but it does appear at least to be solid.
The special features aren’t particularly stand out in this day in age of DVD production, offering merely a music video, teaser and theatrical trailers,
stills gallery, and various other trailers from ‘Eastern Eye’ who (along with Madman Entertainment) are the ones responsible for releasing this
movie in the Region 4 format. Thanks guys.
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