Achi-wa ssipak (2006)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Jo Beom-jin

Writers:

Jo Beom-jin (writer)
Yeon-won Jeong (writer)

Release Date:

29 June 2006 (South Korea)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi

Plot:

In a future where energy is made from fecal matter, the government rewards defecation with "juicybars". Small-time hustlers try to get rich while fending off the mutated Diaper Gang. |

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Yeong Hyeon	...	(voice)
Gyu-hwa Lee	...	(voice)
Gyu-hyeong Lee	...	(voice)
Chang Jung Lim	...	Ssipak (voice)
In-yong Oh	...	(voice)
Seung-beom Ryu	...	Aachi (voice)
Hye-jeong Seo	...	(voice)
Hae-chol Shin	...	(voice)

Also Known As:

Aachi and Ssipak (International: English title)
Aachi ja Ssipak - Tappev duett (Estonia) (festival title) [et]

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

South Korea:18 | Australia:MA (2007) | Singapore:M18 | New Zealand:R16

Company:

J Team

Movie Connections:

Spoofs True Romance (1993)

Not for children

This is the best cartoon movie I saw in the last few years. Surely a movie for adults, you'll find it out in the first 2 minutes where the body count starts raising, and rockets to the sky.

Hope this wont take away anyones appetite watching it, because this is a movie with lots of black humor, beautifully graphics, lots of action.

Why not to watch it? Disgusting, sick story, 3-4 deaths for each minute.

Why to watch it? Disgusting, sick, and 3-4 deaths for each minute.

You either like it, either hate it.

The good guys are violent hoodlums who want to get rich by selling drugs on the black market, the bad guys are the diaper gang, the police is the tyrannic force in the city. The power source of the future is human feces. And the state collects it and rewards the people with addictive juicy bars.

The funniest characters are the ant like diaper gang members. They are the addicts of the drug that can be received after defecation. These poor guys/girls (they have no longer any sex) need the juicy bars, but because they cannot defecate they have to find other ways to get the desired food. In their efforts they loose their live by the dozens. Mostly because of the cyborg police officer Geco. He is like Robocop, defying the laws of physics, mainly with unlimited ammo usage. The diaper gang calls themselves orphans of the city. Their small size, and as they act I think they are like kids turned into addicts. (Despite the original story that they were normal citizens.) The rest of the characters are bad guys too: Aachi and Ssipak are always arguing on something. They are marauders attacking people on the toilet. Beautiful the woman is a porn star, or prostitute. The leader of the police is much like an angry chiwawa: a little blonde girl, shouting with her inferior officers.

Overall: lots of action, lots of location, good storyline, weird ideas.