To

Japan • 2009 • 85m •

• Directed by: Fumihiko Sori. • Starring: Jun Fukuyama, Aya Hirano..

The first segment called ''Elliptical Orbit'' is about a ship called the Flying Dutchman returning to Earth after an extended absence with a cargo of ''protons'' to be used for energy. A terrorist group with military combat suits boards the station they dock with intending to use the proton cargo as a massive bomb. The second segment, ''Symbiotic Planet'', is a story of two secret lovers from opposing sides of a conflict trying to build a life together.

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TO is a strange movie. The CGI of most stuff is well made - as far as space ships and planets go -, but the Faces seem to have another quality and don't fit the bodies. Their Fingers look like they were made of some kind of plastic. The acting is very weird, at least for me. They fidget around and have odd lines. I remember to have seen this kind of behavior in games like Final Fantasy 8, so I guess it's just the Japanese nature, which seems so unfamiliar.

The first episode revolves around a female captain, coming back from a 15-years-journey. By that point, she seems to have slept with everyone of her crew - regularly. There are some kind of space terrorists, who attack the station. Those intruders were all rather bad shooter. They sometimes manage to even miss a whole spacecraft. Maybe it's "important" for generic villains trying take over a space station to suck at shooting. She can kill most of them with the help of her friends. Before she leaves to her next journey again, it is revealed that she's actually the old man's mother. It doesn't hinder her to give him a kiss while holding him like a lover. But then again, she's been a slut for at least 45 years by then.

The second episode was more to my liking. Their lines were better and the acting seemed to improve. Even the story was more interesting. It tells the story of two colonies, trying to establish themselves on a foreign planet. They soon start to battle against each other - much like an episode of "Outer Limits". But their efforts are brought to an end by the infestation of an alien, symbiotic spore. The end is somewhat predictable, but I won't spoil it.

TO tried to combine CGI with simple anime quality, using both of them. It doesn't work out too well, since they are both quite different styles. As stated before, the first episode wasn't that great. But the second one was good, so I'll give TO 7 stars.

Review by shinsrevenge from the Internet Movie Database.

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