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Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Nov 27, 2007; Genre: Animation; With: Toru Furuya and Megumi Hayashibara; Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Paprika is sure to be a midnight-movie perennial; this jazzy anime entry adds a few new colors to the dream-invasion genre. Director Satoshi Kon's plotting is abstruse (something about a stolen gizmo called the DC-Mini?), but his visuals are clean and sunny, most of all in the film's recurring hallucination: a jingly parade of sashaying refrigerators, geisha dolls, and horn-tooting frogs that's both trance-inducing and terrifying. EXTRAS Kon's commentary extols the influence of Slaughterhouse-Five and explains the opening nightmare's circus setting: ''It's so cheerful that it's almost psychotic.'' B+


Posted Nov 23, 2007
 

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