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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1824706" data-attributes="member: 505">I taped the movie on CN as well as all of last week's airing of the series on G4TechTV (it's on too late for me to watch).  I just watched the movie and first episode of the series.  First, the movie.  The animation was great, it was well directed, the designs were nice, the music was great, the opening credit sequence was worthy of a Bond film, the fight between two intangible characters was a favorite, and the dubbing was generally good.  Also, the paper control powers were unique and very cool.  It's nice to see a super power that's never been done before (afaik).Now on to the bad.  Anyone else think of Independence Day during the assault on the White House?  Also, the constantly wetting himself President was bizarre.  Once would be okay, but doing it over and over and over again was just irritating.  It reminded me of Saturday Night Live where they seem to believe that saying something not funny loudly and repeatedly somehow equals a joke.  :\ Then there was the story.  What the hell happened?  The villain just kind of showed up.  I have no idea who he was or why he was trying to kill everyone on the planet.  And what was going on with that book everyone wanted?  Did they ever explain what the villain needed it for?  In fact, the villain seemed confused as to why she wanted it back.  And then, in the end, the girl makes a parachute out of it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> I was also confused by another thing.  When Agent Paper and Ms. Deep were fighting the guy with the staff, the staff guy wounds Ms. Deep and gets the book.  Who struck down the staff guy?  It looked to me like it was the villain.  Is that right?  If so, why would he do that since he now has to steal the book later?  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> Anyway, my thoughts are that the movie was like the Matrix trilogy.  It looked nice and there are some pretty cool ideas, but it fell apart on a storytelling level.   It's a shame since I wanted to like it.   I'd give it a 5 out of 10 on style alone.Now as to the series.  Wow, this is different.  No, really, it's completely different from the movie.  I've only seen the first episode, but it looks to concern the 3 sisters of Agent Paper who all possess he powers and book obsession.  There's no mention of the secret agency from the movie.  The girls this time work as detectives/bodyguards.  I'm kind of torn about it.  Like I said, the movie's strongest point was the concepts.  The tv series doesn't seem to be using them.  It's possible that these things will turn up later on, so I've reserving judgement.</blockquote>

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