Roy Hart
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Alison
After his father's death, young Mo decides that it is his mission to fulfill the dream that his father could not: that of finding the mysterious natural power called The Origin which his father had used in the creation of a wooden and mechanical being, Arti-C. With his swordswoman sister Tong at his side, Mo and the artificial creation travel from one realm to another, encountering strange beings, a mystical Goddess and a Prince who may not be exactly as he seems. When they discover the location of The Origin, they all must struggle to do the right thing....This is a very odd film from the Huang family, long famous as master puppeteers; this, their most recent, is a mixture of classic wuxia (a style of supernatural sword-fighting), an environmental message, a created mythology, a bit of steam-punk, occasional humour (at one point a character says he's not from Taiwan, he's a Chinese with a bad Korean accent!), puppets - and 3-D! Not sure what the latter was for, other than some birds and knives coming at the audience, but the film is very lovely to look at even in 3-D, although I was kind of scratching my head for the first two-thirds or so. Still, a film that can make you believe that cockroach-like creatures are cute and cuddly must have something going for it, no?
