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Fantasia Cr: Meatball Machine
17 July 2006
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Meat Ball Machine
Co-directed by Yudai Yamaguchi and Junichi Yamamoto, Meatball Machine is low budget Japanese sci-fi with tongue planted firmly in cheek.
Aliens have invaded earth with the sole desire to play a twisted “game” of fighting each other to the death and consuming the loser. Why Earth? Roughly the size of a tennis ball, these aliens want oversize human bodies to inhabit and transform into urban fighting machines.
Mbm is an overt cross between Robert Heinlein’s seminal sci-fi novel The Puppet Masters, Shinya Tsukamoto’s mind-blowing Tetsuo films, and the WWF. If your not into any of those three, this film probably isn’t for you. Then again, the film’s final scene, a bizarre chiaroscuro conversation between two chillin’ aliens was worth the price of admission alone.
Feeling somewhat overextended, Mbm rises slightly above it’s interesting but thin premise by incorporating a saccharine love
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