Ah, such a shame! Loups Garous is a movie with quite a few interesting twists and turns, offering a slight twist to your usual science fiction premise. It’s the kind of children’s adventure that’s not really meant for children: innocent at one side, really heavy and dark at the other. With the right execution, this really could have been a stunning movie. It’s just too bad that the execution sucks.
Loups Garous is the kind of movie where the writing staff either didn’t get enough time, or didn’t want to take enough time: it’s a collection of neat ideas unable to mesh together, tied together very poorly. The directing for example can’t even keep track of which scene it’s in: randomly it just skips time without even an introduction; things just happen because they’re interesting for the plot. There are countless of things that just don’t make any sense (we’re who knows how many years in the future, and yet there isn’t a single gun in the entire series), the hacking in this movie ranges from interesting to ridiculously stupid (especially during the final climax) and the bad guys have the most pathetic security system out there.
The main problem with this movie however is that it doesn’t know the concept of fleshing things out. It spends a lot of its time on mindless drivel, but it makes no attempt at familiarizing the viewers to its setting. The setting of this movie never gets analyzed beyond its premise, and only one of the characters has any depth at all: the rest are just stereotypes. The villains are also utterly terrible: all of them are just one dimensional stereotypes. People try to murder for the stupidest reasons (the pink-haired girl takes the cake: I dare you to find a dumber reason for her to get chased by a bunch of random punks out to kill her), the main villain is just laughably bad, the conclusion is a joke.
I’m getting a bit tired of Trans Arts, to be honest. They continue to abuse Production IG’s name to produce these ambitious titles that they have no idea how to correctly pull off. The only series in which they didn’t fail horribly was with Kemono no Souja Erin. The production of Loups Garous was horribly rushed and it shows through its entire airtime. I admire the spirit of these people, but please: first learn something from the people who actually know what they’re doing.
| Storytelling: | 6/10 – Disjointed story, plot holes, deus ex machina, stupid plot twists, poorly paced. Does no justice to its heavy themes. You can see that it’s going somewhere, but there are so many errors along the way. |
| Characters: | 7/10 – Absolutely pathetic villains, likable but shallow characters. |
| Production-Values: | 8/10 – Nothing special for movie standards, but it it does look good and stylish. |
| Setting: | 7/10 – Has a lot of interesting ideas, but never uses them. Completely fails at getting the viewer accustomed to the setting. |
Suggestions:
– RD Sennou Chousashitsu
– Dennou Coil
– Metropolis
That’s sad. I was waiting for this movie since it was announced. After all, it’s an adaption of a novel written by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, the author of Mouryou no Hako! I am still planning to read the novel after watching the movie. Maybe they had a problem with adapting a 450 pages novel to a single movie.
70! hmm… I expected it to be atleast 80 or higher. Might aswell just watch it when the subs come out. I was looking forward to it eversince the released date was announced.
I like the movie and loved the charadesign. But yeah, the ending was imo pretty weird and I don’t liked it how easy is was for a few children to enter the main building of the bad guys – in general there seemed to be to few passengers or people beside the 7-10 main/plot characers.
Well – I still enjoyed the movie pretty much – so I am interested in the novel as well, hopefully it’s gonna be released someday in the USA.
I’d be even less kind and give it 60/100. And that’s only because I liked to world-concept. There were so many things about the world in which Loups=Garous is set that I would have liked to have seen explored, but it all becomes background noise to the absurdities of the plot, itself. This is something that would have benefited from being a tv series, rather than a film.
Well for the the writing staff was bipolar, It started really dark, and had some big twist, was really awesome. But then after the scene in the elevator (witch now I consider the true finale of the movie as im ignoring everything that happened afterwards) the writing staff suffered a bipolarity and suddenly decide to make a comedy, with a totally idealistic end a a boring villia, witch may actually have worked out fine if it werent for all the dark and awesome scenese before it. It simply seemed out of place