Patema Inverted

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Patema Inverted

2013

1h 39m

Adventure

Sci-Fi

Animation

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Patema and Age leave their community's tunnels to find out why gravity was reversed by an energy experiment.

Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

"Patema Inverted" mines a lot of entertainment value and social allegory from a pretty great concept despite being held back from greatness by a clunky narrative.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 29, 2014

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Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

An orphaned girl and a fatherless boy bridge opposing societies in "Patema Inverted," a delightful animated fable from Yasuhiro Yoshiura.

Aug 28, 2014

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Kyle Smith

New York Post

The film by Yasuhiro Yoshiura suffers from many of the same flaws as other anime features - a plodding pace, broad humor, a bland heroine and snarly, one-dimensional villains.

Rated: 1.5/4

Aug 27, 2014

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Nick Hilton

CineVue

Patema Inverted has children in its lead roles but, putting that aside, it's a relatively standard science fiction movie.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 21, 2019

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Derek Smith

Tiny Mix Tapes

Unless you're jonesing for new Japanese animation, you'd be advised to reverse your gravitational pull and steer clear of this one.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 11, 2015

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Barbara Shulgasser

Common Sense Media

Dark anime delves into prejudice in upside-down worlds.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 7, 2014

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StephenPaul C

The greatest 01 hour: and 39 minutes ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/10/23

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Audience Member

really nice, love the protagonists

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Utterly jaw-dropping. I watched it years ago as a child and even though I had no understanding of gravity or even really what was happening at the time, I was just as enthralled as I was after watching it today. Truly stunning, on par with even the best of Ghibli movies. I could never recommend this movie enough, but as you can see- I took off half a star, that is solely because my brain is still very bad at processing the whole thing and the conclusion leaves me very shaken, which I personally enjoy because it just means there are more things to consider and imagine. even the dub is great!!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

The best movie you'll see in your life

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Movie ended well, characters had good voice acting, and movie never felt to slow to watch or to fast to fathom

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Although the characters can be simplistic and the love story cheesy at worst, the movie concept left me at the end with a dazzling sentiment of upside-down that I couldn't quite shake. (The scenes were they keep toying with the gravity were my favorites)

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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Yasuhiro Yoshiura

Director

Yukiyo Fujii

Patema

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Age

Shintarô Oohata

Porta

Shinya Fukumatsu

Elder

Hiroki Yasumoto

Jaku

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Synopsis

Patema and Age leave their community's tunnels to find out why gravity was reversed by an energy experiment.

Director: Yasuhiro Yoshiura
Producer: Michiru Ohshima, Mikio Ono
Production Co: Asmik Ace Entertainment
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Animation
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 39m

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