Rotten
With a conventional invade-dreams/bend-reality plot, it's a bit of a bore.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Paprika
This is your brain on anime.
2006 · 1h 30m · R
Animation, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Satoshi Kon
Overview
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it and recover it before damage is done: Paprika.
Director and cast
- Satoshi Kon Director
- Megumi Hayashibara as Paprika / Atsuko
- Toru Furuya as Tokita Kohsaku
- Tohru Emori as Seijiro Inui (voice)
- Kôichi Yamadera as Osanai Morio
- Katsunosuke Hori as Torataro Shima (voice)
- Akio Otsuka as Toshimi Konakawa (voice)
- Daisuke Sakaguchi Cast
- Koichi Yamadera Cast
- Mitsuo Iwata Cast
- Hideyuki Tanaka Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
87%
Tomatometer
Rotten
When there's this much spice and food for thought on one plate, how are you expected to taste anything at all?
David Fear, Time Out New York
Rotten
You could sit through the film two or three times to nail down the details of the story, but the film isn't interesting enough to warrant a second look.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Rotten
Is it sci-fi? Fantasy? Idiocy? Mostly it's a droning mess -- pretty to look at but confounding to the point where you just don't care any more.
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Fresh
Especially for fans who understand how movies are put together, Paprika grabs you from the get-go in a series of flowing images and transitions that follow the skewed logic of a dream, jumping from a three-ring circus to a swinging jungle vine.
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
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