p-gonzo Tamala 2010 is a fantastic, inspired film that floats in a brilliantly imagined cosmos. The entirely animated film flows with creative freedom that suspends your mind in wonder and delight. The visuals range from cutesy cartoon to detailed cold-machine future.The creator behind this has let his genius go places without restraint and the result is how works of film can really be free of the rationale world -- truly a dream universe where things can change to anything else instantaneously, yet have their own, definitive logic. If you get a chance to see this on the big screen , don't miss it. And although kids coulod actually watch it, it is most definitely designed for adult enjoyment. And you don't need to be an anime fan to like it (I'm not).

michael@piston.net This movie is a wonderful example of how deep ideas and powerful images are not sufficient to make a movie worth watching. You must tie the two together in some sort of coherent plot, which this movie completely failed to do. Here the movie leaps from scene to scene with little regard for the characters' motivations. Yes, the cat wants to find her mother, but why does she first detour to the unstable Hate Planet? What does the fighting there have to do with her or the story? Further, the ideas should be gradually introduced into the plot, not suddenly spilled out in a monologue so remorselessly tedious that the director finds it necessary for the one of the characters to repeatedly describe himself as bored to death with it. Well, if the director knew he was boring the audience, why didn't he restructure the scene so it wouldn't be boring? The answer is, that would have been real work, and real work is something the people responsible for this film weren't interested in doing. They wanted to show off their fabulous pop images, their "witty" dialog (which most consists of the cute little kitty saying "fucking") and throw out their deep ideas for contemplation. Compare and contrast Shrek I & II with Tamala 2010 to see what proper fantasy is all about. In Shrek we are also bombarded with spectacular images, and interesting ideas about racism, but in the service of a plot which makes sense and keeps the audience interested. Nobody walked out of Shrek, and the laughs went well beyond a cute little kitty using dirty language. There may well have been a great movie hiding inside of Tamala 2010. Pity the director, producer and scriptwriter lacked the time, patience and energy to bring it out.

aaronp-5 While cute and enjoyable, the movie is no walk in the park. The art is fabulous and the plot can be challenging at times. Like most existential movies it will take some time and further viewings to get the most out of it. But the pleasure is all ours as watching this is both moving and entertaining. The best parts are areas where the music melds perfectly with the visuals and the plot. Luckily this happens often. I respect this movie most of all because it isn't lazy. The artists and crew come up with original stuff but they don't hide behind endless wierdness and confusion. This is up there with 2001 in terms of nearly towing the line perfectly between chaos and good old fashioned wierdness. There is a good backbone here, not just a cloud of ideas.

TheSciBoy The movie is centered around the kitty-cat Tamala, who appears to be about 1 years old but has a potty-mouth and a tendency to drop-kick anyone she passes.In her universe, cats and dogs are as humans are in ours and Earth, known as Cat Earth, is to a very large extent owned by the large corporation Catty&Co.(spoiler warning) In the movie, Tamala's attempt to reach her berth place in the Orion system, means she ends up on planet Q, where there is a legend of a god named Tatla who will bring the world to some sort of apocalypse, which will signal the inevitable rebuilding of society in an endless cycle. (end of spoiler)The unraveling of this storyline is the basis for the entire movie and the single reason for its failure. In its style, it is naive and clear, with all cats and dogs being bug-eyed and drawn in a fifties pattern. Intermittently, the film goes into CG-mode and beautifully rendered sequences of a robot-cat (Tatla) and Cat Earth is shown for what it most likely really looks like. If the story had been complete, the incoherent story telling style might have succeeded, but as it is, it only succeeds in rambling on and on about Tatla, Tamala and all the other things we don't care about. People were walking out of the theatre all the time while the movie was showing and I don't blame them (at first I did, but towards the end I was also becoming fed up with the incoherency).I don't mind a story open for interpretation: I loved Lost Highway and still think its a great movie if for no other reason than for the fact that it is SO open for interpretation. But there must be *something* to hang on to, some kind of vested interest from the viewer. In this movie there is none. We are presented with oodles of characters, none of which are particularly interesting or sympathetic and end up not caring what happens to them.There were a few surprise laughs as Tamala drop-kicked some innocent bystander or said the f-word in some unexpected sentence, but other than that I think most people were mollified by the whole experience.Go see "Spirited Away" instead, much better and much more engaging.