![]() All of the racers have crazy, tricked out cars, and do whatever it takes to win. Like I said before, it’s a Hanna-Barbara Wacky Races episode on crack. It takes place in the far future, amidst the dying trend of wheeled vehicles, where an illegal racing event called Redline takes place every five years. Redline tells the story of JP, a young racer who watched a lot of Johnny Bravo and uses a lot of hair gel. This movie makes little to no attempt to try to tell a complex, emotional tale, and in the case of this movie, that’s perfectly fine by me. While that would normally be a complaint, I can’t imagine why anyone would have a problem with this movie due to it’s story. The actual story line, though, isn’t really anything too amazing. Things like this are what set this movie apart from everything else, it’s the reason that it spent so long in production, it’s the reason it’s so amazing. Races aren’t just flashes of cars going by and quick cuts in the cockpits, they’re all out wars. There’s a fluidity in this anime that doesn’t exist in anything in recent anime people don’t just sit there and flap their mouths when they talk, they actually move and look like they’re really having a conversation. The animation is absolutely phenomenal, not just in terms of it’s art style but in terms of actual animation which can’t really be said for too many anime these days. Now, that may seem like an incredibly arrogant thing to say, but I don’t think anyone in their right mind wouldn’t want that to actually be true. The tagline for this movie was “Witness the future of animation”. I’m sure you’ve heard by now all of the technical stuff about this movie by now, like how it’s one hundred percent hand-drawn, how it spent seven years in production, and how absolutely incredible the animation is, but I think it’s worth restating in this case. How does one even begin to describe Redline? If Panty and Stocking was the adult and Japanified version of The Powerpuff Girls, then Redline is the adult, Japanified version of Hanna-Barbara’s Wacky Races. I had actually wanted to watch it a while ago, but after hearing how amazing it looked from everybody and their mother, I decided to wait until I could get the 1080p 5.1 full experience on Blu-ray. As I’m sure most people know, the Blu-ray version of Redline was released here in America about a week ago, and giving into the insane amount of hype behind this movie, I decided to order it.
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