The blend of digital effects blended with, what looked like, cheap 80's drawing was disturbingly bad. The story was heavy-handed and trite. What anime film doesn't have robots, sprawling cities of the future, a love/hate relationship with technology, and obscenely bad social commentary? "Metropolis" is literally the same canned storyline and social statements that made Japanese animation cutting edge in the late 80's. Guess what, the year is 2002. This plotline isn't just tired, it's an anachronism. This movie is a dinosaur that collapses under it's own girth. Good riddance.