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Them Japanese sure do have a strange sense of humor.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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This is a total WTF?! movie, I couldn't tell you what it is about becasue I don't know other than he is an executive koala with a broken heart and some anger issues. Daft story and bad acting, but it is very entertaining and funny, although you may never want to admit to having seen it all the way through!
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/10/23
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Bitter dark comedy about the horror of alienation on the job and everyday life made in a furry heaven (or Hell). I liked more the tenderness found in Calamari wrestler, but there is an arcane and morbid attraction in soft puppies doing nasty things; Discovery Channel koala are rapers and eucalyot addicts, you know? Aesop on dope.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/28/23
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Executive Koala (Minoru Kawasaki, 2005)
The Calamari Wrestler is cracked genius. It's a wonderful, wonderful movie, and I highly recommend it every change I get. A year later, Minoru Kawasaki followed up his bizarro masterpiece with Executive Koala, and while it doesn't have that same infectious sense of joy, it certainly strikes all the right notes to appeal to Calamari Wrestler fans. However, it also has a distinct odor of âwe made this to capitalize on the appeal of The Calamari Wrestler!â?, and it feels rushed, those times when it doesn't feel unfinished.
The plot, which is very loosely based on a Philip K. Dick story (if I tell you which one, it'll give the game away), concerns a koala salaryman. This is the only thing odd about him, really (there are other human-sized talking animals in the film, but they aren't the norm, and it's obvious from the setting that, while a minority, they are accepted in the universe we are given), at least at the beginning of the film. He is a minor manager at a pickle company, but he's working on a big deal to branch out into kimchee, which could mean a heavy promotion. As a result, he works a lot of late nights and is under stress. When he meets with the kimchee folks, one of the company's representatives takes an interest in the koala, and challenges him to a sparring match. The koala (my apologies, I am not remembering names, and IMDB is failing me) proves to be surprisingly good at martial arts, and far more savage than his fawning salaryman demeanor would have us believe. There is more under the surface here, obviously...
Done well, this is a really good plot. (I know. This particular PKD story has been turned into a successful movie at least once before.) And there are enough hints of âdone wellâ? here that you can see how much fun this movie could have been, given a little more time and effort. The characters are decent, though not as well-drawn as one would hope, and the situations are interesting. There's some great comic relief from a local convenience store owner (is he a frog? A chameleon?) and some interesting office workplace dynamics. Then comes the Big Reveal(TM), and everything falls into place... until the climax, which is a huge letdown in every way it can possibly be. You might even be better off stopping your DVD player ten minutes before the movie ends. But up until then, it's quite a good little movie, though you will appreciate it far more if you are capable of looking through the wasted potential. *** Â 1/2
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/11/23
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oh................ c'est probablement un des films les plus What The Fuck?! que j'ai vu! Une sorte de comédie-romantique-thriller-policier-d'horreur-d'action-science-fiction.. Une espèce d'orgie de n'importe quoi foutu dans un blender pis c'est Executive Koala qu'y'en est sorti! C'est vraiment une claque sur la gueule. Les japonnais sont freaks, mais ont parfois tellement un sens de l'humour complètement absurde que j'adore! Je crois que c'est une sorte de parodie de la société japonnais et de films policiers avec un paquet de clichés et des CGI de merde. Un koala attachant, beaucoup d'humour, des scènes d'horreur pur switchés en soft.. Bref, un étrange mélange qui réussit, on ne sait pas trop comment, à être excellent! Si j'aurais à lui reprocher quelque chose, ce serait sa perte d'idée de départ.. j'adore le début, mais la fin est arff.. difficile à dire, je ne sais même pas quoi pensé exactement de ce film!
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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Fun and funny but then quite silly by the end.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/27/23
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