Echo Jew Gong Lok (2012) Reviews

• A lot more sophisticated than you think

  sapphire_dragon-12016-08-27

  Face value this film is absolutely ridiculous. It is an environmentalist's propaganda piece with an end of world plot akin to restarting the sun. The animation is quite good, the animals and children are really cute and kids will probably love the colour and action sequences. It is also interesting to see the climate change issue from a Thai perspective. Where this film shows its sophistication is in the main conflict of the film. We are presented with two solutions to the film's problem. One solution that requires minimal effort for short term gain with long term consequence and the other solution that would require a complete change to the way people have become accustomed to living their lives. This conflict encapsulate the inertia humanity has towards dealing with climate change, that we would choose an option though ineffective to solving the problem would at least have minimal impact on the comfort of our lives. The fact it chose to deal with climate change in terms of a problem of attitude instead of environmental was a lot more mature than I expected for this film.

• An Hour and Twenty Minutes I'll never get back

  realchasek2018-10-25

  I was robbed of my precious time because my Dad told me "never judge a book or movie by it's cover", making me think I might want to watch it before throwing it away, and let me say, it is even worse than the DVD cover. First of all, the box art makes no sense. We see Sam, the main character, with 2 people in the background who SEEM to be primary characters, but they only appear in the movie like, for 2 seconds. When we get to the actual movie, you see that the characters lips only match what they are saying in Thai. There are even some sequences where there mouths don't even move at all. I feel like that kind of thing should only belong in Anime. Don't even get me started on "Capital State". Capital State is some representation of New York City, except the Statue of liberty is fat, wears sunglasses, and her Torch is replaced with a gold credit card, and plus, almost all the citizens are fat too. So if your grandmother waltzed into the store and brought home this thing from the bargain bin, and you aren't sure whether it's worth a watch, I'll tell you that it probably isn't

• Impressed

  tillerswife2017-09-09

  I picked this DVD up for $1.00 today. I was thinking it would be a cheesy kid movie, as most with the type of art on the cover seems to be, BUT I am actually impressed! With the very beginning to the end. I agree with a lot of things that are mentioned with the relationship between humans and mother earth. I am definitely glad I picked it up when I saw it in the stack.