Preview: Year of the Fish (2008)

• Poster: C+

Review:

While the poster is perfectly fitting the story it presents, it is a little too unobtrusive and does very little to engage a finicky audience. The promise of an American fairytale is hardly encouraging.

• Trailer: C

Review:

Rotoscopic animation makes a fearful return in this film where the only thing that looks interesting is Tsai Chin's performance. Otherwise, this modernistic Cinderella tale is unnecessary.

Oscar Prospects:

English-language film pulls it out of Foreign Language competition and that should be it for the film's Oscar chances. However, it could be a submission to the Animated Feature category, but like A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life before it, it isn't going anywhere.

Release Date:

• August 29, 2008

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (August 17, 2008) Original