Renaissance
This is one of the few futuristic movies that don't paint a goverment controlled Orwellian nightmare. It's a detective story where a cop is trying to find a kidnapped researcher for that era's megacorp. Who took her? Why? And what dramatic plot of the evil megacorp will be thwarted?
Take the high contrast black and white art of Sin City and then make it a cartoon like A Scanner Darkly and you have Renaissance. It's all done in black and white - no grays. There is the occasional off black or off white, but it's always a reflection or computer display or something and it's just barely off black or white.
The art was the most interesting part of the movie. The story wasn't bad, but not something I'd be terribly interested in seeing again... you know, unless I had a date who wanted to see it.
Open Season
Another computer generated animation. It's a lot like Shrek in that you have a big character who just wants his home back and his irritating sidekick. The sidekick even gets called a donkey in one scene. Then there's all the wildlife who want to move into his home, too. But there's not all the singing and dancing and topical references of Shrek so I'd have to say this was better. This is one of the better non-Pixar computer generated animations that I've seen.
What you've seen in the trailers, the part where the wildlife rebels and fights back against the hunters doesn't happen until late in the movie. Leading up to that there's plenty of story and character development.
Good movie but I won't be getting it on DVD.
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