Thanks! Don’t be surprised, though - ain’t nothing more Kafkaesque than being captured, miniaturized, trapped inside a sphere, and let out only so that you can fight against your own kind for reasons beyond your comprehension. And for all that to somehow be the dominant sport, social organizer and economic driver in…

It’s a CLEFAIRY you monster.

Toronto is the most multicultural city in the world and the third largest in North America. It's the ideal movie setting. Montreal is cool, but Vancouver is a supremely overrated snooze fest

That’s Clefairy bro. 

I guess I shouldn’t just books by their covers, but I would have never expected a Kafka reference from the Jigglypuff avatar.  Well done!

Worse! It’s Toronto praising! I can stand Montreal or Vancouver praising -- those are cool, fun, cities.

I have no problem praising Asian theme movies, but I will not have Canadian praising here!!!!

When they canned Dowd, they stole all his A’s and now are just handing them out everywhere

 remember when this website was cool and used to give us non slideshow inventories

This isn’t a review, it’s the celebration of an Asian-themed movie. Which is fine and all, but a review would be nice too. 

It’s about a girl struggling with transforming to a monster, and the ritual to cure her is scheduled at the same time as her favorite band’s concert. All of which stands in as a puberty allegory. Seems pretty obvious. 

How do I finish reading a review of a movie and still have no true view of what the movie is about?

I haven’t seen the movie, but 2002 puts it in a time when teens generally didn’t have cell phones, and the general public didn’t have phone with cameras on them (for, say, when you see a giant red panda on the street). I wonder if that turns out to be important, since cell phones make a lot of common movie plot…

Domee Shi would have been 13 in 2002. So there you go.

So only the writers from Chicago had to relocate to LA? Michael in NYC gets to stay put? Seems a bit unfair, but okay.

“I’m Michael. I’m a writer in New York City.”

Sounds like she got all the Napoleon complexes riled up something fierce.

The singer from weezer had it. One of his legs was shorter than the other and when they made it big after their first album he had the surgery. The recovery sounded pretty horrifying.

It’s real, basically they just cut the bone and hold the pieces in place while it slowly regrows and fills in the gap, but much like stuff like “penis enlargement surgery” it’s more of a thing to fix a specific medical issue such as uneven limb growth and not some magic medicine to just make someone larger all around.

From 1485 through 1551, a mysterious illness called the sweat ran through Northern Europe—mostly in England—killing people within hours of exposure. To this day, no one has figured out what it was, and it never re-emerged after 1551. It killed entire families between waking and dinnertime. And it spread like wildfire.…