Pastiches
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The roles are
pastiches
that are so over-played as to be wearying.
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Instead (and bear in mind I'm a Japan-o-phile and anime lover) we get this horrendous kiddies movie that rips the guts out of the story, mixes in Star-Wars (ironic as the latter ripped off the books occasionally)
pastiches
and dumbs the whole thing down to 'Thundercats' level.
The story is a pastiche to end all
pastiches.
Nothing wrong with pastiches, of course, but surely there's more to musical life than perpetually acting out a cartoon from the late 60s.
Let me say from the start that it is FANTASTIC... a tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet proportions, and yet utterly hilarious; a western, and yet set in fifties' Thailand; technically superb and yet filled with
pastiches
of movie cliches; tongue in cheek and yet very moving.
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