Good start, but contains filler-action

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2004)

The movie is mostly front-loaded with clever and inventive ideas, the initial premise being very amusing until some of the action becomes a little tedious and working on only one level.
Oddly, the boring stuff does look very good showing off impressive "set" design. But the humor is not always layered in. Picks up again toward the end. Just to note, there are sequences where it is hard to distinguish between this and a straight-ahead animated superhero show. The element of satire is somewhat abandoned.
In order to pad out my comments to at least five lines of writing, let's look at (or listen to) the soundtrack. Why is the music more evocative of James Bond than superheros? 007 May be classified as a super hero in this case only because he does manage to survive physical acts that would kill most people, but that is a movie convention more than a power. Also, I suppose the trope of the "monologing" villain allowing the hero to survive is less a super hero thing than an action movie or Bond issue.