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Sukai Kurora (The Sky Crawlers) (2008)

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This sci-fi tinged, full-length anime feature opens on a peaceful future, where Earth has left the violent conflicts of war in the past. Human nature still craves the clash of battle, however, so private companies now stage "war as entertainment," creating fictional wars for ordinary people to read about in the paper. These companies call exclusively on the services of young people known as Kildren. One such Kildren - a young man named Yuichi - has been newly assigned to a base in the fictional

May 26, 2009

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

All Critics (9) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (3) | DVD (1)

The aerial action has been carefully crafted for excitement and offer impressive scenes of skylines full of fighter planes: the mix of CGI and 2D animation give depth and a gloss that would make Michael Bay proud.

May 13, 2010 Full Review Source: Future Movies UK | Comment

If you're unfamiliar with the delights of anime, I wouldn't start with this one. But fans will adore it.

April 29, 2010 Full Review Source: News of the World | Comment
News of the World

If at times too opaque for its own good, The Sky Crawlers is nonetheless a dark, engagingly surreal thought-provoker animated with Oshii's customary grace and flair.

April 29, 2010 Full Review Source: Total Film | Comment
Total Film

If you're prepared to meet the film halfway, you'll find it an engaging, spectacular and thought- provoking experience.

April 23, 2010 Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | Comment
Guardian [UK]

The Sky Crawlers is Oshii's finest film since 2001's underrated Avalon and his best animé since the original Ghost in the Shell.

April 8, 2010 Full Review Source: Electric Sheep | Comment
Electric Sheep

how could a movie about the amazing sky-high acrobatics of aerial dog-fighting teenagers end up being so boring

July 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comments (3)
Filmcritic.com

... a surreal, hypnotic quality broken only by the dynamic scenes of battle...

July 2, 2009 Full Review Source: Seanax.com | Comments (2)
Seanax.com

The wonderful artwork and animation can start to pale when the storyline gets so bogged down in existential angst and action.

June 7, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

The technically proficient The Sky Crawlers is nice to look at and listen to...but by relying on zombified blank-slate characters, Oshii makes a point at the expense of engagement, much less entertainment. [Blu-ray]

May 21, 2009 Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | Comments (2)

The gun never goes off, but the possibility (the precipice) remains.

September 24, 2008 Full Review Source: UGO | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Sukai Kurora (The Sky Crawlers)

The sky crawlers is a very well done movie and a very good book though like Meany films it takes more then one watch though to understand and get throw it. The book is really good no doubt some people would have waited years to see a film or an animation version of it and finally we get one. With some fantastic battle

October 6, 2010
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Keiko Aya

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It's astonishing how much heart, soul and depth they managed to incorporate in this gently told, unique story, despite the sterile, but at the same time strangely sophisticated nature of it's characters. This is an adult Japanese anime in a psychological drama, not much as an action-adventure, and it has a very quiet,

September 30, 2010
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Dean McKenna

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