RZA also briefly appears as poetry slamming gangster Shakespeare, and Michael Chiklis voices Agent Crocodile. While leads Angelino and Vinz are played in the English Dub by Kenn Michael (“As Told By Ginger”) and musician Vince Staples, respectively, Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”) and Danny Trejo (“Machete”) lend their voice to antagonists Mr.
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Luckily, what this movie may lack in well-crafted plot, it kinda makes up for with its cast of neat looking characters and boasting some major talent amongst them.
Things finally get an interesting look to them once we enter the main villain’s lair, but even that is all too brief and riddled with clichés, followed by an intense but cheap climax with a lot left unresolved. It definitely feels lived in and somewhere you can imagine as a real place, but things like the aforementioned immortal band of Mayan luchadore guardians that are entertaining, but feel like they belong in another movie altogether. It begins well enough as we begin in the “normal world” the characters inhabit that is slowly encroached upon by agents who want to capture or kill them, but as Angelino and Vinz explore Dark Meat City in order to find a proper hiding place, the city isn’t super fleshed out and just adds several mundane (albeit well drawn) locations. In fact, the structure of this plot is pretty uneven and messy at times.
Luckily the smooth and fluid animation makes the points they want to be style over substance have a LOT of styles, but it’s still at the cost of what could be a more engaging story. But while that may have made more sense in the comic, they really only stop a movie flat when it could be getting on with the plot. There are random interjections and shouted questions at several points in the film to sometimes explain something or add extra stylish art. MFKZ wears its love of anime on its sleeve from minute one, but where some projects would make this a distraction and substitute for story, this film…also does to some extent. Prior to this, the only film experience they had was “Dofus Book 1: Julith” in 2016, which displayed their impressive range of talent and likely contributed to this adaptation of a comic that came from their country and shares their anime-influenced sensibilities. Ankama is no slouch though, having started as a video game company and only have a handful of animated shows to their names, which are mainly adaptations of those games, “Wakfu” and “Dofus”. Studio 4C is no stranger to international projects, having worked on anthology films for American properties like “The Animatrix”, “Batman: Gotham Knight”, and “Halo Legends”, as well as co-producing both “Transformers: Animated” and the 2011 Thundercats reboot with Cartoon Network. It’s hard to say which studio had more influence on this film since both have their own unique flair that blends together well here. Soon, he and his skull-faced friend Vinz are targeted by government agents, immortal luchadores, poetic gangsters, and a strange society that could link Angelo’s powers to extraterrestrial origins. The story centers around a kid named Angelino living life on the mean streets of Dark Meat City, until ogling a cute girl lands him a car accident which triggers strange visions and abilities he never knew he had. In this case, it’s the combined styles of Studio 4C (Celsius) from Japan and France’s slowly growing powerhouse Ankama Animations to adapt an indie French comic set in California. In these times when people seem more divided than ever, it’s always nice when talent from across the globe come together on a project that can show us just what we can accomplish united.
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