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Patema Inverted

Yukiyo Fujii

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Takaya Hashi

Shintaro Ohata

Shinya Fukumatsu

Masayuki Katou

Hiroki Yasumoto

Maaya Uchida

Hideyuki Umezu

Go Shinomiya

Yu Shimamura

Tomoyuki Shimura

Shunsuke Itou

Yuka Keicho

Genki Muro

Toru Sakurai

Kiyohito Yoshikai

Yasuhiro Yoshiura

Takanori Aki

Yuji Kaneko

Mikio Ono

Masao Teshima

Marina Dubovskova

Tomomi Yabuki

Chisato Kawaguchi

Ryo-timo

Tetsuya Hasegawa

Ryota Furukawa

Shunsuke Matsuo

Ron Kamiya

Hiroko Yaguchi

Atsushi Ikariya

Hanako Enomoto

Rie Maehara

Kazuya Sako

Ryutaro Ueda

Shihomi Kaneko

Toshiyuki Shitamori

Yuta Chimoto

Atsushi Satomi

Sadayuki Arai

Tsukasa Kakizakai

Akiko Kazato

Kaori Anmi

Mika Nishimura

Osamu Ii

Kenji Tamaki

Yasuomi Kishi

Sonomi Sugimura

Noriko Onishi

Kenji Saikai

Naoki Hiramura

Tomohito Taira

Anri Maeda

Nahoko Kosugi

Sachiko Yajima

Kenji Nishikawa

Kazuhiko Yabumoto

Satoshi Mori

Manabu Ohashi

Takanori Tanaka

Miyuki Nakayama

Kumiko Numata

Kayoko Ishikawa

Sunao Chikaoka

Masato Takeuchi

Yui Ushio

Yasue Sosogi

Kyoko Nakajima

Hideki Araki

Sun Jialong

Kim Sang-min

Kazuhisa Nakamura

Ryusuke Chayama

Ryota Sakaguchi

Lee Min-bae

Yoshihiro Miyajima

Nana Yamaishi

Eiji Tsuchida

Michiru Oshima

Hidekazu Akui

Daisuke Mataga

Akiko Inoue

annin dofu

Michio Nakagoshi

Hiroki Wada

Natsuki Wada

Estelle Micheau

Akira Yamaoka

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Sergei Skripka

Tomoyuki Sakurada

Tom Nagae

Takeo Yamagishi

Shinobu Yoshioka

Ryosuke Inagaki

Patema Inverted is a film about a split world where gravity points in different directions. This affects people, objects, and even natural stone. Wherever an object was created decides which direction the object falls. Of course, without some kind of protection, objects and people can fall into the sky. 

That's the concept. As a concept, it's incredibly interesting. The gripping moments, awesome actions scenes, and interesting animation sequences have limitless potential. This movie fills that potential and does a fantastic job of executing the concept in a way that keeps things interesting.

Unfortunately, that's one of the only things the movie did exceedingly well. The pacing of the movie was strange. It started rather slowly until some revelations by the characters drew us into the action. The film takes a large amount of time to introduce us to Patema, one of our protagonists. While this is a good thing, Patema isn't an incredibly interesting character. She's the Chief's daughter, sure, but that only comes into play for a few lines of dialogue. She has some really emotional scenes that just don't feel as emotional as they should because the character depth isn't quite up to snuff.

In addition, Age, the other protagonist, doesn't get the same treatment Patema does, at least not right away. Until later in the movie, the only things we really know about Age is that he isn't happy with the authoritarian nature of his school/government. 

The antagonist of the movie and the rest of the supporting cast are all extremely one-sided: dumb, in love, mindless goons, etc. 

While the pacing is inconsistent and the movie starts off slow, once it hits its pace, it really takes off. The two protagonists really help develop each other, although the short amount of time it takes for each one to be willing to sacrifice their lives for the other is much too short. 

Altogether, the plot is a means to an end. It is designed to force the characters together so their one-sided-ness isn't nearly as glaring as well as to give us a reason to see the world. The twist at the end wasn't terribly surprising, but it was executed well.

All in all, the movie was good, not great. The concept was fantastic, but the rest of the movie just held the concept back. It's certainly worth a watch (probably two), but it isn't something I'll make a point to watch at least once a year.

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Yukiyo Fujii

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Takaya Hashi

Shintaro Ohata

Shinya Fukumatsu

Masayuki Katou

Hiroki Yasumoto

Maaya Uchida

Hideyuki Umezu

Go Shinomiya

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