Liked very much, but some of it was "too much"

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2012)

It's like nothing I have ever seen before, and that's some of the highest praise that I can give to any piece of art. Most of the time, the characters' faces are almost completely lifelike and yet there's still a hint of their hand-drawn origins. The backgrounds are often entirely believable, but in some scenes they erupt into detail that has simply never been shown on screen before. A fantastic job by the director, the cinematographer, the graphic designers, or whatever all these people's titles are.
There is a downside: several times I turned to my companion and said "That's too much". I don't want to be a spoiler but often there was just too much action and too much detail, and a couple of scenes just went on way too long. Occasionally, a scene had me wondering whether it actually shot and then digitally manipulated, or created using motion capture, or created entirely in a computer. But the fact that I was thinking such things meant that I had been distracted; there was so much going on that it had overloaded my brain.