I could tell from the trailer that this movie would be a big colorfully beautiful mess. I gave it a chance because I have enjoyed Luc Besson and Dane Dehaan in other projects, and I did honestly enjoy myself when I saw this. It's a lot to unpack, so to put it as succinctly as possible, the script needed a serious polishing but the extra energy for that was instead clearly invested in the cgi, which is damn-near perfect. It reminds me a little of Buckaroo Banzai, in the sense that the story is kinda all over the place but the characters take it in stride and so you do too. Because of said script needs, the acting was off, but THAT resembled a foreign film where the actors speak the stiffly translated lines...which is kinda of what it actually is, so I took that in stride too. All in all a very VERY beautiful tornado of a movie; don't panic, open the windows, enjoy.
