Tokyo Godfathers Details

[Highly rated reviewer]

Beautiful, just beautiful

I won't say I had low expectations of this but having seen a lot of anime (japanese animation) I know that sometimes it can be ponderous, preachy or sometimes surreal. That's not the case with Tokyo Godfathers.

As with most anime the animation is both well done and well drawn but it's the storytelling and characters that makes this film stand out. Each characters is well drawn and you learn their backstories at just the right pace to keep you intrigued. There are plot twists and surprises galore but they never seem contrived. The laughs come thick and fast and are well timed usually stopping poignant scenes from becoming too cloying.

Even if you've neve seen an anime before, see this one. You're guaranteed to be smiling by the end of it.

Refreshingly different

Tokyo Godfathers is a refreshingly different animated film, with the usual fantasy subjects being discarded in favour of a more realistic tale of 3 homeless misfits attempts to track down the mother of an abandoned baby they discover. The plot is very heavy on co-incidence, with all the main characters unexpectedly running into family members from their old lives, but given the Christmas fable feel this is not so annoying. The film does drag a little in the middle, as the quest for the mother goes on and on, but stick till the end and you'll be rewarded with a great twist ending and a finale that combines high drama with comedy antics and a great action chase scene. Refreshinlgy adult.