Strange Frame: Love & Sax |
USA • 2012 • 98m •
  • Directed by: G.B. Hajim. • Starring: Claudia Black, Tara Strong, Ron Glass, Cree Summer, Tim Curry, Juliet Landau, Michael Dorn, Alan Tudyk, Khary Payton, Claudia Christian, George Takei, Kofy Brown, Shelley Doty. • Music by: Shelley Doty, David Pellicciaro.   28th century, 200 years after the Great Earth Exodus. Naia, a feisty, young singer/songwriter, falls in love with the beautiful saxophonist Parker in Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. The two form a band - and now they have to not only make it as musicians but also to fight for their freedom.
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And yet... for about a billion different little reasons it just worked for me. The world they built, that reminded me of Cowboy Bebop and Farscape and Asimov, the music that was atmospheric and provided a perfect backdrop to the visuals(and they even managed to sneak in some Pink Floyd), the aesthetic that reminds of noir and Myst and turn of the century video game cinematics, the unconventional characters, which are totally how I imagine the future will be, the voice cast, that features so many familiar voices that do their job expertly(seriously - you've heard or seen all of them from somewhere - be that a Saturday morning cartoon, a cult-classic game or favourite fantasysci-fi show, or a ton of other awesome pieces of media you'd be surprised they were in).
When you are in a certain frame of mind all of these things just click together in some uncanny way that makes the entire movie pretty amazing. I doubt there are 2 people on Earth that will experience it the same way. So make of it what you will, but if you enjoy any of the above you'll probably enjoy this movie too.
Review by Martin Ninov
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