As a former Ninja Turtles stan here, I genuinely appreciate that this version finally engages in the teenage aspect of the characters. It makes for a more authentic, childlike dynamic between all these little turtle guys, wanting to find their calling home.
The animation is phenomenal. Takes the grain and gruff that Spider-Verse had and reduces it to the pure comic form of Eastman and Laird's original work. I think it kind of works better than Spider-Verse in some aspects,β¦
From the damn opening alone where we see the Shohoku basketball team materialize from pencil and ink, The First Slam Dunk firmly establishes itself as a film that will rock your core and raise your hairs. It did not disappoint.
Takehiko Inoue is an artist I've considered one of the greatest visual masters, and while I haven't seen Slam Dunk, it's a manga I've noted for its sheer intensity and agility in its artwork. You could almost smell the sweat,β¦
ridiculously great. somehow had everything going against it, but it persevered and became one of the cinematic cornerstones of the entire year and potential this decade. a clever, humorous tale filled to the brim with creativity and charm, bound with the absolute peak in modern animation today. puss' grapple with mortality and death is engaging and effective, his arc never feels forced, it comes as a genuinely powerful and brilliant structured way of acceptance and trust in a time ofβ¦
